WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — ready for marketing
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with characters, settings, world details, and relationship dynamics
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — the complete roadmap with emotional direction for every chapter
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every single chapter (this is what makes your AI draft actually sound like a novel)
⭐️ Marketing Copy — taglines, blurbs, tropes, and more
⭐️ Full Implementation Guide — step-by-step instructions to write this book and turn it into a series
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE RECIPE OF US
They’ve been best friends since third grade. Business partners for a decade. Secretly in love with each other since they were seventeen.
Neither has ever said a word.
When their landlord raises rent 40%, Kerri and Cameron have three months to save the bakery they built together — or lose everything. A reality TV baking competition has a $100,000 prize, but there’s a catch: it only accepts couple-owned bakeries.
So they fake it. Staged date nights. Couples’ interviews. Choreographed touches. And their first kiss — captured on camera — that is devastatingly, unmistakably real.
She fell in love during late-night SAT study sessions. Then watched her parents go from soulmates to strangers in six months and swore off romantic love forever.
He fell in love the same night. Watched her build that wall and chose to keep her as a friend rather than lose her entirely. Ten years of settling for friendship while dying inside.
Now they’re performing love for cameras while hiding the real thing. Eight weeks of filming where every fake moment feels more honest than anything they’ve ever admitted out loud.
Friends-to-lovers. Fake dating on reality TV. Mutual pining. A decade of denial. Sweet/clean heat level.
The kind of slow burn that makes you want to grab both characters by the shoulders and shake them.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Friends-to-lovers + fake dating is a proven hit trope combination — adding the reality TV competition hook gives it a fresh, culturally relevant twist
→ Ten years of mutual pining creates the kind of dramatic irony romance readers are obsessed with
→ Sweet/clean romance readers are starved for emotionally intense stories that deliver all the tension without steam
→ Coastal California bakery setting with a built-in supporting cast primed for a 4-book series
TROPES:
• Friends to Lovers
• Fake Dating (Reality TV Competition)
• Forced Proximity
• Mutual Pining
• Slow Burn
• He Falls First, She Falls Harder
• Small Town Romance (Coastal California)
• Workplace Romance
• Dual POV
• Grand Gesture
• Found Family
• Will They / Won’t They
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Clean
Perfect for fans of: Ali Hazelwood, Abby Jimenez, Tessa Bailey, and Christina Lauren