WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and K-Lytics market validation with dual-category positioning (Rockstar Romance + Friends to Lovers) and competitive analysis
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast of 7, Larkhaven, Vermont setting, The Fret & Fable music shop, six-week summer timeline, dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Beck (deflecting humor, music metaphors) and Marlowe (precise, tuning-and-repair metaphors), relationship progression, moderate heat-level intimacy guidance, and series seeds for 2 future books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 28 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene breakdowns, and a small-town festival climax structure
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every chapter with tone, pacing, heat-level progression, and distinct voice guidance for alternating POV
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, social media posts, newsletter announcement, reader magnet concepts, and series launch strategy
⭐️ Full Implementation Guide — step-by-step instructions from first draft to publication including pricing strategy, cover direction, and series readthrough strategy
One buyer. Exclusively yours.
THE HOMECOMING HEADLINER
Marlowe Duchesne spent eleven years turning her grandmother’s struggling music shop into the heartbeat of Larkhaven — thirty students on the books, a waitlist for lessons, a whole life built with her own two hands after the boy who once believed in that shop right alongside her left without a word.
Then Beckett Renfrew walks back through the bell over the door, guitar case in hand, asking for strings like eleven years and one viral onstage breakdown are nothing at all.
Before she can find her footing, there’s her grandmother handing him a key to the back room like he never left, mornings that quietly turn into closing-up-together without either of them scheduling it, a guitar lesson where her hand lands over his and neither one moves it, a summer storm that strands them at the shop with the power out and no more excuses left, and a box of old shop records where she finds an envelope in his eighteen-year-old handwriting — her name on the front, never opened, never sent.
She’s spent eleven years insisting she chose to stay, not that she was left behind, and telling herself those are two different things. He’s spent eleven years building a life loud enough that he’d never have to sit still with the real reason he ran. One unsent letter is about to make both of them answer for it.
A slow-burn small-town rockstar romance about the songs that don’t feel finished until the right person finally hears them. The kind of book you finish wanting to know exactly which chord he was too afraid to play.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Rockstar Romance sits at 4.1 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) with 25.1 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — low competition, real earning power
→ Dual-category stack with Romance > Friends to Lovers (23.3 sales-to-comp, Hot Cell) gives legitimate positioning in Romance’s strongest-performing trope cell
→ Small Town backdrop (6.4 sales-to-comp, Hot Mainstream) triple-stacks discoverability without adding meaningful competitive drag
→ Lower-angst, hometown-hero positioning is underserved — most Rockstar Romance bestsellers chase tour-and-fame spectacle instead
→ The unsent-letter reveal is a concrete, screenshot-able hook that travels well on BookTok and romance Instagram
TROPES:
• Friends to Lovers
• Small Town
• Second Chance Romance
• Rockstar Hero
• Slow Burn
• Reunion Romance
• The Unsent Letter
• He Learned Guitar From Her First
• Stranded Together in a Storm
• Grand Gesture Is a Finished Song
• Found Family Small Town
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Warm
*includes Dial the Heat™ guide to adjust heat level
Perfect for fans of: Ginger Scott, Kayley Loring, Kylie Scott, and Devney Perry