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The Dream With Two Locks
Joyce makes a lock for a man who insists it needs to work while he is asleep. That night she finds herself standing outside his bedroom door in a house neither of them owns.
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A Key Under the Pillow
An invitation to somebody’s dreams is the most dangerous key in the house.
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$235 per book
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The concept
In a Yorkshire family, a key slipped beneath a pillow can let two adults meet in sleep. The invitation lasts until the key is returned. Years ago, someone in the family used that trust to frighten a lover into staying. Four couples inherit the damage in different ways. Loving each other means risking the truth in daylight even when the dark feels kinder.
Pauline has slept under electric light since the night she let Martin see her worst memory. He says he handed the key back. Finding it beneath her pillow makes her want to wake him and ask which promise he broke. The free companion novella is The Dream With Two Locks.
The worldA dreamer can end a meeting by waking. A guest can alter only their own appearance and the doorway they entered through. The keys expose memory as the dreamer remembers it, complete with errors. A returned key ends access.
Series tropesHidden World • Slow Burn • Opposing Morals to Moral Growth
Intended readershipAdult paranormal romance readers drawn to dangerous intimacy, human dreamwalkers and redemption with a real cost.
Tone & contentDark, sensual adult romance. Nightmares, past emotional coercion and grief. Romantic intimacy is freely chosen while awake.
The people behind the promise
Free novellaJoyce Hulla locksmith who dreams in corridors
Free novellaAmos Wynna widowed walker
Book 1Pauline Legga sleepwalker trying to reclaim her nights
Book 1Martin Bealethe former keeper of her spare key
Book 2Adam Pittsa teacher who knows a stranger’s face from a nightmare
Book 2Hugh Masseythe family’s estranged son
Book 3Ellen Gricea family archivist
Book 3Vic Masonthe walker she left before their wedding
Book 4Alison Headthe last keeper
Book 4Peter Nealea former dream guest who has asked for his key back
Series arc
Two early visitors devise a second lock. One woman keeps her lamp lit, another man recognises an intimate intruder, an estranged pair faces a recurring door and the last keeper returns the surviving keys to their owners.
The four books
The direction is set. The books are written after you order.
Book 1 of four
Sleep With the Lamp Lit
Pauline has slept under electric light since the night she let Martin see her worst memory. He says he handed the key back. Finding it beneath her pillow makes her want to wake him and ask which promise he broke.
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Book 2 of four
The Man Behind My Eyelids
Adam sees Hugh across a crowded bus and recognises the mouth that threatened him in his sleep. Hugh recognises Adam’s terror. Somebody has been entering a dream wearing the face of a man who has never owned Adam’s key.
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Book 3 of four
Keep the Door in Your Dream
Every night Ellen dreams the same door. Behind it is the one thing Vic asked her never to open. He is willing to come back into her life on condition that she finally believe him when he says what belongs to him.
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Book 4 of four
Wake Me With My Own Key
Alison has a drawerful of keys and exactly one she would like to keep. Peter turns up in daytime holding a bunch of flowers and a demand she cannot pretend she has misheard.
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From the free novella into Book 1
The first pair keeps a record of returned keys. A key marked returned appears beneath a stranger’s pillow in Book 1.
In the concept package
Includes the author pitch, editable Authorythm seeds and individual AI-generated front-cover concepts. The planned fiction totals 250,000 words.
Included free
Buy the 4-book concept pack and receive the companion lead magnet concept free. Each novel is planned at 55,000 words. The lead magnet, The Dream With Two Locks, is planned at 30,000 words.
Included in the pack
Author pitch PDF with the series premise, characters, book blurbs and complete story arcs. One editable Authorythm seed document. 5 coordinated front-cover concepts.
What you get with this pack
- Four completed booksDeveloped from the pack you choose.
- Editing and human proofreadingFor every manuscript.
- Four coordinated coversA recognisable identity across the series.
- Blurbs and Amazon metadataFor all four titles.
- A+ contentTo showcase your books on their Amazon pages.
Order this pack and your series enters our production queue; we confirm your scheduled start.
This pack has been sold. Each pack is only sold once.
4-book package
$940
$235 per book
Order this packEach pack is only sold once.
Until 3 December: your concept comes with two On-Demand classes of your choice and six TropeSmith Maps.
Paid in full to reserve your slot · not refundable · free revision against your brief · Terms · Prices are in US dollars; Stripe may show your local currency at checkout · processed by PlotProse (The Coral Hart Group)
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