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
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters Ruby Calloway and Hollis Wren (full internal landscapes, voice examples, and example dialogue for both POVs), supporting cast of four including Cam, Lena, Poppy, and Figment the cat, three primary settings (Hollis’s house, the Clam Shack, and Harrow Cove as community), summer chapter-by-chapter timeline, full comedy mechanics with running gag log and eight set piece breakdowns, dual POV voice guidelines, and series seeds for the Harrow Cove spinoff
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 20 chapters + epilogue with scene-by-scene breakdowns, emotional beats, comedy beats, running gag status, 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, POV, tone, and closing direction
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with three categories and seven keywords, back cover copy, Instagram launch posts and reel captions, TikTok/BookTok hooks, newsletter announcement with three subject line options, ARC request template, cover brief, and Ideogram cover prompt
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table, five data-backed “Why This Will Sell” bullets, competitive positioning, seven-keyword strategy with rationale, and full launch positioning including pricing timeline, cover direction, and series release cadence
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE NANNY CLAUSE
The contract had seventeen clauses. Hollis Wren wrote every single one of them.
Ruby Calloway is a live-in nanny who took this job in under four minutes, which her sister called reckless and she called available. She read the contract in the car outside the house — counted the clauses, noted the one about the outdoor speakers — and rang the doorbell anyway.
Hollis Wren is six-foot-three of glowering silence and laminated house schedules. Widowed. Controlled. Seven nannies in eighteen months, and absolutely not going to develop feelings for number eight. He wrote a clause about it.
He removed that clause before he gave her the contract.
His six-year-old daughter hasn’t spoken in almost a year. Within forty-eight hours she has offered Ruby a rock, a drawing, and a very serious sticky note that says YOU CAN SIT HERE.
Ruby reorganizes the pantry. A cat appears. She signs them both up for what she believes is a free harbor experience — it is a working lobster haul-out at 5:30am, and Hollis shows up in a dress shirt and holds that lobster without complaint.
By week six he’s timing his lunch breaks for when she comes in from the yard. By week eight he’s left a note on the window box plant that says: South-facing works better for these.
The contract said no personal involvement. He’s the only one who knows he removed it. Ruby leaves in September.
Single dad. Live-in nanny. Grumpy/sunshine. He falls first. Coastal Maine. A contract with seventeen clauses and one very important omission. Warm.
The kind of book where he tears up the contract on the porch and names everything that changed — the pantry, the coffee, the daughter, the plant — and goes inside before she can answer, because that’s how he says everything that matters.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance-Romantic Comedy averages 494 estimated daily sales per Top 20 title on Kindle (K-lytics, Feb 2026) — with the #1 bestseller holding an Amazon Sales Rank of 82. This is one of the highest-royalty markets in romance.
→ Nanny and single dad are both index-100 character roles in the current Romantic Comedy market — the highest possible score. The nanny role is a new entry in the Feb 2026 data with only 1% supply share. High demand, near-zero saturation.
→ He-falls-first paired with grumpy/sunshine — the dominant dynamic in the Top 100 — is confirmed at positions #7, #22, and across multiple top-40 author titles. Proven combination, differentiated execution.
→ Coastal Maine differentiates from the crowded mountain, ranch, and small-town-South settings that dominate the current cycle. Live-in setup provides built-in forced proximity without an external premise engine.
→ Standalone share among Top 20 bestsellers hit 35% in Feb 2026 — up 20 points year-over-year. Full standalone with HEA, perfectly timed, with a spinoff-ready secondary couple seeded for Book 2.
TROPES:
• Single dad
• Live-in nanny
• Grumpy/sunshine
• He falls first
• Forced proximity
• Forbidden (employer/employee)
• Slow burn
• Widower hero
• Sunshine heroine
• Selective mute child
• Coastal small town
• Standalone with series potential
HEAT LEVEL: Warm
Perfect for fans of: Elsie Silver, Pippa Grant, Laurie Gilmore, and Amy Daws