WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ market validation with dual-category positioning (Urban Fantasy + Humorous Fantasy), competitive analysis against T.J. Klune and K.M. Shea, and series architecture overview for The Gullhaven Tides
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters Wren and Ewan (full profiles, wounds, arcs, and four distinct voice-example passages each), supporting cast of seven including Maren, Penn, Sable, Corvin Vale, and Pryce Holloway, sensory profiles for five major settings (the island, the inn, the harbor, Marrow Point Light, the selkie cove), ward mechanics and sea-kind biology, heat level guidance with Dial the Heat™ flagged scenes, and series seeds for three future Gullhaven Tides books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 28 chapters + epilogue with scene breakdowns, emotional beats, key dialogue, sensory details, word count targets, and the complete three-clue mystery architecture
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 29 self-contained prompts with full character context, scene, emotional beat, decision, tone direction, and chapter hook — paste into a fresh chat, one chapter at a time
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and 7 keywords, back cover copy, 48-word short description, Instagram and Facebook posts, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, reader magnet concepts, and series launch strategy for The Gullhaven Tides
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table, “why this will sell” data points, competitive positioning, 7-keyword strategy with targeting rationale, and launch positioning covering categories, pricing, cover direction, and series strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE OFF-SEASON GUESTS
Wren Talloway has managed hotels through blackouts, evacuations, and a legionnaire’s disease scare. She can fix anything that can be fixed with logistics and a phone. What she cannot fix is the $43,000 in back taxes on the crumbling Victorian inn her great-aunt left her on a remote Maine island — or the quiet certainty, at thirty-four, that she’s been competent for other people so long she’s forgotten what she actually wants.
Then she opens the cellar door. And the off-season guests start arriving.
Merfolk, selkies, sirens — the Tidewrack Inn has been their only safe harbor on this coast for sixty years, under a ward her great-aunt maintained until she died. The ward is failing. Someone has been draining the harbor’s magic on purpose. And the gruff, protective harbormaster who made clear he’d prefer Wren to leave immediately keeps showing up to fix her plumbing.
Before she can finish the tax math, there’s the late-night cellar inventory where she and Ewan work through the emergency supplies while the storm does something to the harbor that storms shouldn’t do, his voice at her door one morning before she asked anyone to come, the way he matches his walking pace to hers without seeming to notice, a Samhain gathering that fills the inn with warmth she didn’t build alone, and the moment he says I thought you were going to sell — two in the morning, kitchen light on, and she looks at him and neither of them finishes the sentence.
She’s spent fourteen years being everyone’s most reliable person, and no one has ever noticed she’s lonely. He’s been holding this island’s secret alone because letting someone share it would mean letting someone in.
Cozy coastal paranormal romance with a mystery to solve and a found family that earns every page. The kind of book you read under a blanket in October and then immediately want to start again.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ SF&F > Fantasy > Humorous sits at 6.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) with 101 daily sales per top 20 title — the strongest ratio of any category this package targets, with 14,850 titles competing
→ The merfolk/selkie/siren character cluster is the highest-indexed rising entrant in the 2026 UF data at 30.3 Sales-vs-Competition — only 2% of books use it; reader demand is outpacing supply
→ Dual-category positioning in Urban Fantasy + Humorous Fantasy gives two bestseller list surfaces with different discovery audiences entering at each
→ Found family indexes at 50 Sales-vs-Competition — the most favorable trope signal in the entire 2026 paranormal romance dataset; grumpy/sunshine at 14, forced proximity at 25
→ No cozy coastal paranormal inn book currently exists on the urban fantasy shelf — this package is first-mover in a clearly legible concept with natural crossover to cozy mystery and cozy fantasy buyers
→ Island/coast location modifier is new to 2026 UF data at index 40 — visually and tonally distinct from the city-set majority of UF at thumbnail, giving this cover an immediate shelf differentiation signal
TROPES:
• Grumpy/sunshine
• Slow burn
• Found family
• Inherited inn / fish-out-of-water
• Secret masquerade
• Island small-town community
• Cozy mystery thread (fair clues, satisfying reveal)
• She runs a paranormal emergency like a five-star hotel
• He fixes things she didn’t ask to have fixed
• The love interest who notices everything and says almost nothing
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate / Built heat-flexible — emotional intimacy and physical longing throughout; one intimate scene flagged for the included Dial the Heat™ guide so you can adjust the heat level without breaking the outline; consent architecture clean at every setting
Perfect for fans of: T.J. Klune, K.M. Shea, Annabel Chase, and Heather G. Harris