WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ validation with dual-category positioning (Small Town & Rural / Workplace), Emily Henry comp analysis, Carnegie library whitespace assessment, and year-round E2L demand brief
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast of 4 (Dorothea, Theo, Margot Vale, the Friends of the Carnegie community), the Calder Falls Carnegie Library with full preservation architecture accuracy guide (quartersawn fir, lead came, Secretary of the Interior’s Standards, the 1922 Carnegie Corporation correspondence), dual first-person voice system (Remy: architectural vocabulary, buildings read aloud; Emrys: library science vocabulary, book-finding instinct, glasses on/off), and series seeds for 3 future Calder Falls books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 29 chapters + epilogue with scene-level breakdown through Chapter 7 and compressed beat sheets through Chapter 29; the maintenance log tracked across all entries; the 1922 letters planted in Chapter 10 and paid off in Chapter 25; the floor argument arc mapped from Chapter 1 to Chapter 28; the Chapter 26 dual-POV flagged
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — self-contained writing instructions for all 29 chapters and epilogue; preservation architecture vocabulary embedded in relevant prompts; three intimate scene registers specified; Chapter 26 dual-POV section break structured; “we were both right” HEA dialogue written in full
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with 7 library/E2L keywords, back cover copy, Instagram captions (×2), story slides (×5), Facebook post, 60-second BookTok script, newsletter with 5 subject lines, September launch window calendar, and Calder Falls Series four-book architecture
⭐️ Full Implementation Guide — pricing strategy, Vermont Carnegie autumn cover direction, KU enrollment, and annual cozy season re-marketing plan
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE LAST LIBRARY
Emrys Vance has been running the last independently operating Carnegie library in Vermont for twelve years. He knows the building’s maintenance history by heart, located the original 1924 construction documents himself in the Vermont State Archives, and had a binder of twelve documented objections waiting for the preservation architect before she arrived. The binder is organized by category. It has supporting documentation. It took him two weeks.
Remy Vale reads the first three tabs on her first day and says: “You’re right about the floor.”
Then she says he’s wrong about the HVAC routing.
Before either of them can call this a professional disagreement and leave it there, there is a twelve-year maintenance log she reads on Day 2 — including the entries he deleted but didn’t remove, including the November 2017 entry about the reading room being cold and the patrons shifting their tables without being asked because this is a good library and it should not be cold; a book that appears on her desk one Thursday with no explanation and which she comes back from having read in two days to say did you know it would and he says yes; the 1922 Carnegie Corporation correspondence she finds in the Vermont State Archives that says a reading room floor is not a floor — it is a sound management system; and the fact that he found the same letters the same Tuesday in September and said nothing, because he wanted to see if she would find the same things he found.
She was right about the moisture. He was right about what the floor is. Neither had the 1922 letter. Neither had the solution alone.
He has been the only person who fully understood what this building was worth for six years. She grew up in Calder Falls — she spent two years in the reading room after her father died at fourteen, and has been doing preservation work everywhere except here for fifteen years, and has not examined why. One renovation year in a hundred-year-old Carnegie library in a Vermont hill town is about to ask both of them a question neither has been answering.
Enemies-to-lovers cozy spice romance set in the last Carnegie library in Vermont, across one renovation year, in a building that has been waiting a hundred years for two people who could understand it together. The kind of book you stay up finishing because you need to hear them say it out loud.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Small Town & Rural sits at 6.4 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) with 180–420 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — the Carnegie library setting is genuine whitespace in the cozy spice market; no current title owns it
→ The Carnegie library setting is natively BookTok — #LibraryTok and #LibraryRomance communities are most active September–November; a historic library with a maintenance log, a deleted entry, and a 1922 acoustic floor specification is almost perfectly designed for organic sharing
→ “Both of them right” E2L is the highest-rated E2L structure on Goodreads — readers rate “both parties have a point” E2L significantly higher than “one party is wrong” E2L; the resolution requires building something new together, not one party realizing they were wrong
→ Emily Henry comp — Beach Read readers specifically seek intellectual sparring E2L with professional competence; warmer than Henry with a found community layer and a building setting that Henry’s premises don’t access
→ The maintenance log is the most unusual intimate document in this catalog — specifically, quietly devastating; I am very tired (three words, 2019) will be quoted in reviews and screenshotted on BookTok; this is the marketing architecture of a book that generates word-of-mouth
→ Year-round E2L and library demand compounds the September–November cozy season peak — the catalog’s most evergreen package; the baseline doesn’t drop to near-zero in spring and summer the way seasonal packages can
TROPES:
• Enemies-to-Lovers
• Small Town
• Forced Proximity (One Building, One Year)
• Both of Them Right
• He Falls First
• The Building as the Third Party
• Found Community
• She Grew Up Here (He Doesn’t Know Yet)
• He’s Been Keeping This Alone
• The Maintenance Log He Didn’t Expect Anyone to Read
HEAT LEVEL: Open Door / Cozy Spice
Perfect for fans of: Emily Henry, Talia Hibbert, B.K. Borison, and Jasmine Guillory