WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with dual-category positioning (Paranormal > Ghosts + Holiday > Christmas), competitive analysis against three comp titles, and series potential for a 3-book Keeping World framework
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters Nell and Everett, supporting cast of 4 (Sylvie, Tobias, Margaret Dunning, Callum Farrelly), the Ashgrove Building and its sub-basement archive as primary settings, December 12–25 compressed timeline, dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Nell (precise, architectural metaphors, delayed response) and Everett (radio announcer’s rhythm, “I’d like to think” as uncertainty tell), the Keeping’s rules at full depth including the Rule of True Seeing, sweet/closed door intimacy guidance with heat flags for Dial the Heat™, and series seeds for Sylvie and Tobias as future protagonists
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 24 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene breakdowns, the no-touch rule enforced through the spirit phase, and the two Dial the Heat™ flag positions marked in the epilogue
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — fully self-contained writing instructions for every chapter and the epilogue, with the Keeping’s rules, no-touch rule, and heat level restated in every chapter where they apply; heat flag positions marked [START] and [END] for Dial the Heat™
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with 7 keywords and 2 categories, back cover copy, 50-word description, Instagram post and story slides, Facebook post (link-in-comments format), newsletter announcement with 3 subject lines, 4 reader magnet concepts, reader targeting profile, and series launch strategy for The Keeping World
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table, 6 data-backed “why this will sell” points, competitive positioning against 3 comp titles, 7-keyword strategy table with per-keyword rationale, and launch positioning covering categories, pricing, cover direction, and series cadence
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THE THIRD VISITOR
Nell Harrow closes things for a living. Buildings, companies, eras — she arrives, she assesses, she recommends. She has spent ten years getting excellent at this, and part of getting excellent was learning not to want things she might get wrong. The Ashgrove Building is the latest in a series of things she has decided not to be attached to.
Then the Spirit of Christmas Future refuses to show her anything.
He just sits in the armchair across from hers, a radio announcer dead since 1952 who has been doing this job for seventy-four years without reaching a single person, and asks her what she wants. She says she has no idea. He has never gotten an honest first answer. He decides to try something different.
Before Nell can finish her assessment and leave — there’s a December evening where he describes the city he loved so specifically she can hear it, a question about Portugal she answers more honestly than she planned, a moment when she reaches toward the armchair and her hand passes through the warmth of where he is and neither of them speaks for four minutes, a radio transcript from 1952 she finds in the building’s archive and reads alone in a stairwell for an hour, and the slow understanding that he has been spending himself — drawing down the energy that keeps him here — to come back every night, and he knows it, and he keeps coming back.
She’s spent ten years choosing the defensible option over the right one, getting very good at not wanting things so she would never have to be wrong about them. He’s spent seventy-four years finding the warmth in ordinary evenings for other people and keeping none of it for himself, because wanting something that has conditions he can’t control is the one thing that still frightens him.
There is a rule in the system that governs what he is. He can’t tell her. She has to figure out if she’s brave enough to try.
Christmas ghost romance with can’t-touch longing, a woman who is very good at her job and a ghost who refuses to do his, and a December that unravels both of them. The kind of book you finish at two in the morning and then sit very still for a while.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Paranormal > Ghosts sits at 5.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) with 45–65 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — ghost romance is an underserved lane in paranormal, dominated by darker subgenres; a warm HEA ghost hero is the gap
→ Dual-category play with Romance > Holiday > Christmas (6.4 sales-to-comp, seasonal spike to Hot Mainstream) gives legitimate positioning in two active categories during the November–January peak window
→ Sweet / Closed Door heat level is the highest-converting for gift purchases — positions this title for holiday gifting, library acquisition, and reader-recommendation circles that spicy titles can’t access
→ The Christmas Carol retelling lane has strong annual search demand but almost no paranormal entries — this title is the gap between “Christmas Carol romance” and “paranormal romance Christmas,” capturing readers searching both terms
→ Six-month active sell cycle — Christmas window (Nov–Jan) + Christmas in July (July) + fall paranormal ramp (Sept–Oct) — unusual for seasonal romance and compounds KU page-read revenue across the year
→ Three-book series architecture seeded in Book 1 — paranormal romance readers are series-loyal at higher rates than contemporary; Sylvie and Tobias are pre-sold to anyone who finishes this book
TROPES:
• Ghost hero
• Can’t-touch longing
• Grumpy/sunshine (she’s the grumpy one)
• Christmas Carol retelling with a twist
• Christmas miracle
• Second chance at life
• Found purpose
• Forced proximity
• Slow burn
• Building as character
• The Grand Gesture Is Staying
• Silence as Intimacy
• He Was Always Going to Come Back
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Closed Door — all the longing, none of the explicit; the most intimate scene involves her hand, his armchair, and four minutes of neither of them speaking; intimacy scenes flagged in the epilogue for optional expansion
Perfect for fans of: B.K. Borison, Ashley Poston, Evie Dunmore, and Hazel Beck