WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with triple-category positioning across Time Travel, Second Chance, and Romantic Comedy, plus competitive analysis and comp titles with differentiation
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with Dahlia and Jonas at complete profile depth, supporting cast of 5, the Hollybrook Inn coastal setting with full sensory detail, the Loop Ledger tracking all 15 depicted loops, dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Dahlia (precise, list-making, dry one-liners) and Jonas (spacious, circling, engineer’s metaphors), relationship progression with heat-level guidance flagged for Dial the Heat™, and soft series seeds for 2 future Marlport standalones
⭐️ Loop-by-Loop Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue, structured loop-by-loop rather than day-by-day, every chapter with scene breakdowns, emotional beats, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory details, ending hooks, and word-count targets; final-third audit completed
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — fully self-contained copy-paste prompt for every chapter and epilogue, with complete character context, loop-number continuity tracking, voice reminders, and Dial the Heat™ flags embedded in three chapters
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, 50-word description, Instagram and Facebook copy, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, four reader magnet concepts, reader targeting, soft Marlport series marketing, and an Ideogram cover prompt calibrated to the contemporary romance market
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three categories, five data-backed “why this will sell” points, competitive positioning, seven-keyword strategy table with per-keyword rationale, and full launch positioning including pricing, cover direction, and series strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE REHEARSAL
Dahlia Pryor has spent her career making other people’s important days go perfectly. She can redirect a delivery driver, fix a seating chart on the fly, and keep her face neutral when vendors are being impossible — all while making it look like none of it required effort. She is very good at this. She has been very good at this for long enough that she’s stopped noticing what it costs her.
Then she wakes up and it’s Friday again.
The only other person in the loop is Jonas Redpath — the best man, her ex, and the man who watched her pack a box eight years ago without saying the thing that would have made her stay. He’s been here four times already. He has a speech prepared. He does not use it.
Before she can solve what’s broken about the day, there’s the midnight conversation on the inn’s back porch where the salt air makes honesty feel less expensive, the loop they spend entirely as if the day is simply theirs — the dancing, the right toast, the thing she finally admits about the career she’s been performing instead of wanting — and the reset that takes all of it, every time, and leaves her lying in Room 7 still feeling things that technically didn’t happen.
She’s spent eight years not asking for what she needed, because asking once went badly and she decided the risk wasn’t worth repeating. He’s spent eight years letting people go rather than making promises he wasn’t sure he could keep.
Time-loop romance with a porch, an ex, and a day that won’t end until they stop rehearsing it. The kind of book you stay up too late reading because you need to know if the last loop is the last loop.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Time Travel sits at 6.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) with 55–80 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — and only ~1,200 competing titles; this is one of the most undersupplied-relative-to-demand subgenres on the romance shelf
→ Zero period content, zero fact-risk — fully present-day setting eliminates the historical accuracy vulnerability that limits most time-travel romance; the easiest entry on the time-travel shelf for buyer and writer alike
→ Second-chance exes stacks directly onto the time-loop mechanism — the relationship already has eight years of weight before page one; the loop strips it apart loop by loop until what’s left is true
→ Dual POV with built-in dramatic irony — Jonas’s POV opens the book confirming he’s been looping before she discovers it; the reader knows before she does, a structural hook chronically undersupplied in this subgenre
→ Banter-to-sincerity pipeline — the emotional arc most likely to generate social sharing; the loop delivers it in layers, with each pass giving the banter new stakes
TROPES:
• Time Loop
• Second Chance Exes
• Forced Proximity
• Wedding-Party Romance
• Banter-to-Sincerity Pipeline
• Only-Person-Who-Remembers Intimacy
• Competence Heroine Gently Unravelled
• Emotionally Avoidant Hero Named and Grown
• Found Family
• Guaranteed HEA
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate
Perfect for fans of: Josie Silver, Emily Henry, Helen Hoang, and Christina Lauren