WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and K-lytics market validation with dual-category positioning (Romantic Comedy + Women’s Fiction > Romance) and competitive analysis against three comp titles including Beach Read, The Spanish Love Deception, and Part of Your World
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters Nora and Declan (full internal landscapes, voice examples, and example dialogue for both POVs), supporting cast of five including Bex, Cian, Priya, Felix, and Giulia, three primary settings (Cottage Due, the Villa Serafina terrace, and the ceremony garden/balcony as emotional center), four-day chapter-by-chapter timeline, full comedy mechanics with running gag log (The Toast, The Itinerary, and Just the View) and four set piece breakdowns, dual POV voice guidelines, and series seeds for two future books (Priya’s story and Felix’s story)
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 20 chapters + epilogue with scene-by-scene breakdowns, emotional beats, comedy beats, key dialogue, and chapter-ending hooks for every chapter
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — fully self-contained copy-paste prompts for all 20 chapters and epilogue with scene summary, emotional beat, comedy note, voice reminder, and hook
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with two categories and seven keywords, back cover copy, 50-word description, Instagram feed post and story slides, TikTok/BookTok script, Facebook post, Pinterest pin, newsletter announcement with three subject line options, Ideogram cover prompt with typography guidance and backup prompt, and series marketing for Books 2 and 3
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table, five data-backed “Why This Will Sell” bullets, competitive positioning against three comp titles, seven-keyword strategy with rationale, and full launch positioning including pricing, KU enrollment recommendation, cover direction, and series release cadence
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE LAST TOAST
She has a rule about falling for anyone in her best friend’s orbit. She’s been breaking it quietly for thirty-seven months.
Nora is the maid of honor — color-coded itinerary, thirty-seven months of successful emotional management, situation completely under control. Declan is the best man — the one her rule was invented to handle — and a booking error has just put them in the same two-bedroom villa cottage on the Amalfi Coast for four days.
He thought she wasn’t interested. She thought he wasn’t. They’ve been careful about each other for three years and they’ve both been wrong.
A preemptive fourth cup of coffee left on the counter before she’s asked for it.
The long way around the pool. Twice.
A shared balcony she keeps visiting for “the view” — and the way he’s stopped pretending to believe her.
A best man toast he’s rewritten six times that keeps saying more than it should.
Then, through a cottage wall at midnight, she hears the latest version — and there’s only one full day left to do anything about it.
Slow burn. Best friends-to-lovers. Forced proximity. Destination wedding. Amalfi Coast. Moderate heat.
The kind of book where he’s kept her three-page, heavily-annotated itinerary in his desk for three months and she has absolutely no idea.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Slow burn has a Sales vs. Competition Index of 100 in the February 2026 K-lytics data — the single highest score in the entire Romantic Comedy trope dataset — with only 8% book share. Demand consistently outpaces supply.
→ Vacation/holiday is up +2 positions year-over-year with $292K estimated monthly royalties; best friends-to-lovers is #2 by royalty volume at $414K monthly — this package stacks both rising tropes against a destination wedding forced proximity setting that the current Top 100 is not delivering
→ The destination/Amalfi Coast setting differentiates from the saturated small-town category while delivering the same forced proximity mechanic — with the added reader appeal of aspirational escapism
→ Positions directly against the Emily Henry and Elena Armas reader — the buyer who finished Beach Read and The Spanish Love Deception and is actively looking for slow burn done right
→ Books 2 and 3 are seeded with named, reader-appealing secondary characters and planted premises — 3-book series revenue potential built into Book 1
TROPES:
• Slow Burn
• Best Friends-to-Lovers
• Forced Proximity
• Destination Wedding
• Shared Accommodation
• Vacation Romance
• Groomsman/Bridesmaid
• Will They Won’t They
• Pining
• HEA
• Standalone with Series Potential
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate
Perfect for fans of: Emily Henry, Elena Armas, Abby Jimenez, and Talia Hibbert