WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with dual-category positioning (Werewolves & Shifters + Small Town & Rural) and three-category seasonal play, plus competitive analysis against the current shifter heroine market
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with complete profiles for Nell Fairclough and Jonah Ward (history, wound, want vs. need, contradiction, speech patterns, four example passages per POV character), supporting cast of six including Mae Fairclough and Devlin Marsh, Fairclough Farm and Coldbrook settings with full sensory detail, the canonical rules for Nell’s shifting (unglamorous, private, no apparatus), Dial the Heat™ flagged scenes, and seeds for three future Coldbrook books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue with scene breakdowns, emotional beats, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory details, ending hooks, and word-count targets totaling 80,200 words; the three moon nights are structured as act markers; final-third chapters are built to the same depth as chapter one
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — one copy-paste-ready prompt for every chapter and the epilogue; each prompt is fully self-contained with complete character context, continuity facts, heat-level guidance, and the specific emotional and structural beat for that chapter; paste into a fresh chat and write
⭐️ Marketing Materials — Amazon listing with categories and 7 keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, Instagram main-feed post and Story slides, Facebook post, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, reader magnet concepts and landing page copy, reader targeting, Coldbrook series marketing with tagline and read-through CTA, and an Ideogram cover prompt (illustrated, aerial corn maze at dusk, harvest palette)
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three categories, five data-backed why-this-will-sell bullets, competitive positioning against Erin Sterling and Lucy Score, seven-keyword strategy table with per-keyword rationale, and launch positioning covering categories, pricing, cover direction, and series release cadence
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE LONG ACRE
Nell Fairclough runs the biggest corn maze in three counties on a margin so thin she can feel it. She’s fourth-generation farm, October-to-November revenue, and eleven years of quietly scheduling her life around three nights a month she cannot explain to anyone.
This year the maze is bigger. She finally hires someone for the nights she can’t work.
Jonah Ward shows up steady and unhurried and asks exactly one question before he starts: what’s the PTO situation on the tractor. She pauses — she wasn’t expecting that. She tells him. He says okay and goes to work.
Except before the season turns into anything she knows how to manage — there’s the note on the kitchen table the first night she’s gone (went fine — J.), the hayride problem he solves without telling her, the twenty-two minutes in the tractor cab where she says something true and he hears it without following up, the water bottle he holds out when she’s ashamed of herself, and the night she comes home at 4 a.m. to find the cash counted, the dogs fed, and the porch light on. It wasn’t on when she left. He turned it on for her.
She’s spent eleven years becoming the kind of person no one worries about. He’s figured out the pattern in her schedule and hasn’t said a word — he’s just making it easier for her to go.
Contemporary paranormal romance, inverted: she’s the wolf, he’s the human, she’s his employer, and the most intimate moment in the book happens before dawn when she comes home to a light someone left on for her. The kind of book that makes you put your phone down and lie there for a minute before you can do anything else.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Paranormal > Werewolves & Shifters sits at 5.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) with 280–420 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — and fewer than a dozen of those titles feature a shifter heroine; this is a high-volume category with a genuine gap this book fills
→ Dual-category positioning with Romance > Small Town & Rural (4.2 sales-to-comp, Hot Mainstream) places the book in two active markets simultaneously with one cover and one listing
→ Three-category play with the seasonal harvest window — the working corn maze setting earns legitimate positioning in the Holiday/Seasonal category (7.1 sales-to-comp, Hot Niche) in an October window that is less saturated than Christmas romance
→ The secret-kept-and-quietly-managed beat is the current BookTok engagement driver in paranormal romance — the porch light scene is shareable content on its own; the inverted caretaking dynamic (flowing toward the heroine) is a documented high-engagement signal in the community right now
→ The no-pack, no-alpha, no-fated-mates positioning is a searchable differentiator — readers who have bounced off standard shifter romance apparatus are actively looking for alternatives and verbalizing this; this book answers the search
TROPES:
- Shifter heroine / human hero
- Secret kept and quietly accepted
- Boss and employee (she’s the boss)
- Forced proximity
- Competence as intimacy
- Hurt/comfort — caretaking flows to the heroine
- Small-town harvest season
- Found family
- The slow reveal that isn’t a confrontation
- HEA
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate / Open Door
Perfect for fans of: Erin Sterling, Lucy Score, and Patricia Briggs