WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — ready for marketing
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with characters, settings, world details, and relationship dynamics
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — the complete roadmap with emotional direction for every chapter
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every single chapter (this is what makes your AI draft actually sound like a novel)
⭐️ Marketing Copy — taglines, blurbs, tropes, and more
⭐️ Full Implementation Guide — step-by-step instructions to write this book and turn it into a series
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE FRIENDSHIP AUDIT
His grandmother is a retired FBI agent. She’s giving him six months to prove he can maintain a relationship — or she’s cutting him from the will.
So he does what any logical finance analyst would do: offers his chaos-goblin best friend $15,000 to fake-date him.
Lexie Torres is a viral TikTok disaster chef who can barely make rent. Dylan Hogan is a spreadsheet brain who can’t compute emotions. She needs the money. He needs to pass the audit. It’s the perfect transaction.
Except Grandmother Hogan doesn’t just observe. She investigates. Surveillance photos. Surprise visits. A couples retreat with one bed and mandatory intimacy exercises.
Staged kisses that linger too long. Morning routines that feel like home. And a secret spreadsheet where Dylan’s been tracking his feelings for Lexie for years — 100 entries he told himself meant nothing.
They’re falling in love while pretending they already are. And neither can admit the truth without risking nine years of friendship.
Friends-to-lovers. Fake dating. Grumpy/sunshine. Only one bed. A retired FBI grandmother running surveillance on their relationship.
The kind of rom-com that makes you laugh until you cry and then cry because you’re laughing.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Friends-to-lovers + fake dating + grumpy/sunshine is a proven bestselling trope stack with massive reader demand
→ The retired-FBI-grandmother hook is a built-in comedy engine that differentiates this from every other fake-dating romance on the market
→ TikTok disaster chef + finance analyst is a grumpy/sunshine character pairing that practically markets itself on BookTok
→ Five stacked trending tropes create multiple reader entry points and strong algorithmic discoverability on Amazon
TROPES:
• Friends to Lovers
• Fake Dating / Fake Relationship
• Grumpy / Sunshine
• Forced Proximity
• Only One Bed
• Slow Burn
• Mutual Pining
• He Falls First (and Doesn’t Realize It)
• Dual POV
• Grand Gesture
• Meddling Family
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate
Perfect for fans of: Emily Henry, Lynn Painter, Sophie Sullivan, and Mazey Eddings