WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ validation with triple-category positioning and competitive analysis
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast of 11, Trail Blazers Montana base camp setting, Bob Marshall Wilderness backcountry retreat setting, 7-day compressed retreat timeline, dual first-person present-tense voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Mac (photography metaphors, humor as deflection) and Hudson (wilderness-survival metaphors, constant physical awareness), relationship progression, steamy open-door intimacy guidance, and series seeds for 3 future books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 28 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene breakdowns, and a physical-intimacy escalation timeline built around the retreat’s compressed seven-day clock
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every chapter with tone, pacing, heat-level progression, and distinct voice guidance for alternating POV
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, social media posts, newsletter announcement, reader magnet concepts, and launch strategy
⭐️ Full Implementation Guide — step-by-step instructions from first draft to publication including pricing strategy, cover direction, and series readthrough strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
TRAIL MIX
Mackenzie “Mac” Rivera and Hudson Walker have spent five years building Trail Blazers Wilderness Co. into the best-kept secret in Montana’s backcountry guiding scene—her camera catching the light, his hands making sure nobody falls off the mountain. She trusts him with her life. She’s never once let herself trust him with anything else.
Then a Fortune 500 client dangles the contract that could save their business—if Mac and Hudson can convince a week’s worth of executives they’re the “romantic success story” the retreat is selling.
Before the seven days are over, there’s a single couple’s tent with both their names on the reservation, a campfire story Hudson tells as fiction that sounds suspiciously like the truth of loving her for five years, a cold front that zips two sleeping bags into one and leaves her waking up tangled in his arms, a burn scar down his shoulder she touches without flinching while patching up an injured client, and a hidden hot spring two miles off-trail that Hudson has never shown another living soul.
She’s spent three years since her ex-business-partner gutted her client list convinced that mixing romance with anything that matters is how you lose it all. He’s spent five years believing the scars that ended his firefighting career make him someone to be grateful for, not someone to want. Seven days of pretending is about to make it impossible to keep pretending it isn’t real.
Contemporary workplace romance where fake dating turns into the truth neither of them meant to tell. The kind of book that makes you want your own wilderness guide who’s been quietly in love with you the whole time.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance › Workplace Romance is a solid performer with room to breathe — 181 estimated daily sales per top 20 title with moderate competition, less saturated than the mega-categories
→ Dual-stacks into Romance › Contemporary — the single highest-performing romance subcategory at 1,032 estimated daily sales per top 20 title
→ Triple-stacks into Romantic Comedy — 626 estimated daily sales per top 20 title adds a third discoverability lane
→ Friends-to-lovers + fake dating is one of the most consistently in-demand trope pairings in romance right now — both trending independently, rare together
→ Wilderness-guide setting is a genuine gap — most workplace romance is office- or corporate-bound; this one trades desks for backcountry, with zero direct comps running the same setting
TROPES:
• Friends to Lovers
• Fake Dating
• Workplace Romance
• Forced Proximity
• Only One Tent
• Grumpy/Sunshine
• He Falls First
• Unrequited Love Becomes Requited
• Trust Falls (Literally)
• The Truth Disguised as a Campfire Story
• Scars He Thinks Make Him Unlovable
HEAT LEVEL: Steamy / Open Door
Perfect for fans of: Sally Thorne, Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, and Sarah Adams