WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with Friends to Lovers Hot Cell (23.3 sales-to-comp) and Workplace Hot Mainstream (8.6 sales-to-comp) dual-category positioning, competitive analysis against three comp titles with differentiation statements
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with complete profiles for Faye Morrow and Rafferty Doig (history, wound, want vs. need, contradiction, speech patterns, physical specifics), four distinct voice example passages per POV character, supporting cast of five including Danner Burk, Bree Indra, Corvin Ashby, Pearl Whitaker, and Joel Ashby, the Crestwick setting and Aldren & Associates firm with full sensory detail, the conference room as the novel’s emotional geography, complete chapter-by-chapter timeline across ten weeks, dual first-person heat level guidance, and a three-book series framework with premises for The Corvin Problem and Before the Deadline
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 25 chapters + epilogue with 3–5 action bullets per scene, emotional beats, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory details (no recycled details), ending hooks, and word count targets on every chapter including the epilogue
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 26 fully self-contained copy-paste-ready prompts (one per chapter + epilogue) with complete character descriptions, setting details, backstory context, continuity facts, voice guidance, and heat level embedded in every prompt — open a fresh chat, paste, and write
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, Instagram and Facebook copy, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, four reader magnet ideas including a bonus scene and a Mrs. Tran POV, reader targeting, and series marketing with read-through CTA
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three categories, five data-backed why-this-will-sell points, competitive positioning with three comp titles, seven-keyword strategy table with per-keyword rationale, and launch positioning covering pricing, cover direction, and series read-through strategy
One buyer. Exclusively yours.
THE LONG WAY BACK
Faye Morrow rebuilt herself carefully after the relationship that made her smaller. She has her work, her apartment, her routines — and Rafferty Doig, her best friend of seven years, the person who knows her coffee order and her code references and the specific beam constraint she was worried about last Tuesday. She has not examined why she tells him everything. She has been very good at not examining it.
Then the firm announces a partnership opening with exactly one slot, and both of them are on the shortlist.
Before either of them can figure out how to compete with the person they’ve been building their professional lives beside for seven years, there’s a co-presentation where they finish each other’s sentences three times in front of the client without planning to, and the cab ride back where neither of them mentions it. There are the margin notes he starts leaving in her project documents — not feedback, just reactions, the kind of attention that is professional in form and unmistakably not. There’s a Friday night that becomes takeout on the conference room floor that becomes Faye saying something she immediately tries to walk back, and the specific sound of him saying I know, Faye in a way that refuses to let her erase it. There’s the Wednesday evening at her apartment when she looks up from her drafting table and he is already looking at her with the expression she has been not-examining for three years. And there is the moment, overheard by accident, that tells her exactly why he came back to Crestwick eighteen months ago — and exactly who he came back for.
She spent four years learning to make herself smaller for someone who didn’t notice she was doing it. He has been in the same city for eighteen months, being patient, giving her room, waiting for the moment she stops protecting herself from the thing she already knows.
Contemporary workplace romance for readers who want the slow burn to actually cost something. The kind of book you read with your whole chest and then immediately press into someone else’s hands.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Friends to Lovers sits at 23.3 sales-to-comp (Hot Cell) with only 1,406 competing titles — one of the strongest opportunity ratios in the entire Romance category, with demand significantly outpacing supply
→ Workplace Romance adds a Hot Mainstream second category (8.6 sales-to-comp, 181 estimated daily sales per top-20 title) — dual-category positioning with two independent discovery pathways from launch
→ The architecture setting differentiates from saturated CEO/assistant workplace tropes — a visually specific professional world that readers haven’t seen overused, with built-in sensory texture and authentic work culture
→ Moderate heat is underserved in Workplace Romance, which skews steamy to explicit — this book targets the large reader segment actively searching for emotional intensity without explicit content, a gap the Friends to Lovers Hot Cell data confirms is real
→ Enemies to Lovers is showing a -145% 12-month sales rank deterioration — readers are moving toward warmer dynamics, and Friends to Lovers at 23.3 sales-to-comp is the direct beneficiary of that shift
→ Three-book series framework with strong read-through architecture — secondary characters Bree Indra and Corvin Ashby are seeded in Book 1 as fully realized people with compelling unresolved setups; Friends to Lovers readers are among the highest read-through buyers in Contemporary Romance
TROPES:
- Best friends to lovers
- Workplace competition
- Slow burn
- Long-pining hero
- Competence as attraction
- One almost-moment that changes everything
- Dual first-person POV
- Forced proximity (professional)
- The almost-kiss that isn’t
- He came back for her
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate / Open Door
PERFECT FOR FANS OF: Emily Henry, Sally Thorne, Talia Hibbert, and Devney Perry