WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and K-Lytics market validation with triple-category analysis and competitive positioning
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast, Everwell Vermont setting, bakery and café operations detail, Winter Market event architecture, dual-POV voice system, relationship progression timeline, and heat level guidance
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene-level breakdowns, and chapter hooks
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every single chapter with tone, pacing, and distinct voice guidance for Margot (precise, guarded) and Owen (warm, disarming) alternating POV
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, social media posts, newsletter announcement, reader magnet concepts, and series marketing materials
⭐️ Full Implementation Guide — step-by-step instructions from first draft to publication
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
SWEET RIVALRY ON BIRCH STREET
She’s a perfectionist baker who poured her savings, her grandmother’s recipe box, and three years of dreams into a bakery on the prettiest street in Everwell, Vermont. She has a plan for everything. She does not have a plan for the charming café owner who just opened directly across the street and started making annoyingly good scones.
Then their town’s most determined matchmaker gets them co-assigned to chair the Winter Market bake-off — and a regional magazine announces it will feature one Birch Street business during the event.
Before she can secure the press that will make her business sustainable, there’s a fake-dating proposition that seemed strategic at the time, a man who shovels her sidewalk before dawn and memorizes her grandmother’s birthday, a town of busybodies who are rooting for them louder than they’re rooting for the bake-off, and the slow, terrible realization that pretending to be in love with someone who brings you coffee at 5 AM and argues about buttercream like it matters stops feeling like pretending embarrassingly fast.
She’s spent her whole life being the serious one — the planner who sacrifices spontaneity for outcomes. He’s spent his whole life being the easy one — the charmer who makes everything look effortless because nobody sees the effort. Three days of Winter Market and six weeks of fake dating is about to crack open everything they’ve both been hiding behind.
Holiday rom-com dusted with powdered sugar and Vermont snowfall. The kind of book readers finish grinning like idiots and immediately pre-order the sequel about the town busybody.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance–Holidays has the single strongest sales-to-comp ratio in Hot Mainstream Romance (29.2) with outsized seasonal sales spikes that can launch backlist visibility
→ Small Town Romance (6.4 ratio, Hot Mainstream) is a perennial performer — readers return to this category reliably and repeatedly
→ Romantic Comedy adds a third cross-list with 626 estimated daily sales per top title, signaling massive reader appetite for warm, funny, low-angst romance
→ Fake dating remains one of the most-searched romance tropes on Amazon and social media, with demand significantly outpacing the standalone category supply (only 1,760 titles)
→ Bakery rivalry + Winter Market creates a visually rich, highly shareable premise built for BookTok and Bookstagram discovery
→ Town busybody (Dolores Plimpton) as chaos agent and eventual series lead gives readers a character to fall in love with and a Book 3 to demand
TROPES:
- Fake Dating
- Rivals to Lovers
- Forced Proximity
- Small Town
- Holiday Romance (Winter Market)
- Bakery Rivalry
- Grumpy / Sunshine
- Town Matchmaker as Chaos Agent
- Dual First-Person POV
- He Falls First
- Grand Gesture (Gazebo)
- Found Community
HEAT LEVEL: Steamy — open door, 3-4 scenes; emotionally explicit, sensually warm
Perfect for fans of: Lucy Score, Tessa Bailey, Laurie Gilmore, and Christina Lauren