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Six Gates to Sunday

Whoever shuts the last cattle gate gets a plate at Sunday supper. Two people have spent thirty years timing their rides to avoid the same table.

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Six Gates to Sunday, a contemporary cowboy romance concept package. The graphic shows 4 novel covers and the free lead magnet, A Glove at Gate One.

The concept

Luz trained Pepper on a promise that she’d get first chance to buy the mare. Clay inherited the horse, the promise and a father he still misses. A month in neighbouring saddles might settle who takes Pepper home. It does rather less to settle where Luz would like to wake up.

Five Wyoming outfits share a cattle trail through four romances, from two men who have spent eleven summers calling themselves friends to old flames who finally have to pass each other the gravy. The free lead magnet follows the farrier who keeps leaving things in Wes’s kitchen and the hopeful cook who keeps them for her.

The worldThe working outfits share a private stock trail by agreement. A borrower asks before crossing and leaves each gate as found. Riding, haying, winter feed and the sale barn shape the characters’ choices. The last gate opens on the Bisset family kitchen.
Series tropesRanch Cowboy Romance • Small Town • Slow Burn
Intended readershipFor readers of adult western romance who want ranch work, multigenerational Sunday dinners and couples who put their promises into practice.
Tone & contentEarthy, affectionate and moderately steamy. Animals receive responsible care. The couples range from their thirties to their late fifties.

The people behind the promise

Free novellaWes Bissetthe outfit’s quiet cook and stockman
Free novellaCoralee Fitchthe travelling farrier
Book 1Luz Arriagaa trainer saving for her own string
Book 1Clay Bostocka rancher carrying his father’s debts
Book 2Marnie Strouda recently divorced leaseholder
Book 2Beck Wirththe neighbour used to making the rules
Book 3Drew Lomasa ranch hand who stays put
Book 3Ellis Fiveashhis oldest friend and a seasonal drover
Book 4Nadine Bisseta ranch matriarch
Book 4Roy Ackersthe man she left thirty years ago

Series arc

A neglected glove restores the tradition of feeding the last rider. A disputed horse brings two outfits into partnership. A woman claims her own place along the trail. Two men turn the summer ride into a year-round home, and the valley’s oldest feud ends over a Sunday roast.

The four books

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Free novella

A Glove at Gate One

Coralee has one glove and five gates left to ride. The other glove is drying beside Wes’s stove, where she left it after an almost-kiss. Wes has been feeding her for eight summers. Coralee has been finding increasingly ridiculous things to leave behind in his kitchen. This Sunday she’s on the last gate, and she’d like to know if he ever waits up for anybody else.

Story outline
Story arc and endingCoralee is surprised to find Wes has ridden to her next stop carrying her lunch in a dented tin. She saves him a place at the farrier’s bench. Wes assumes Coralee’s travelling route means she only wants company in passing. She extends her round by a day to ask him herself, then discovers he has spent Sundays eating alone since his mother died. They revive the last-rider supper. When bad weather delays her, he leaves a plate hot and asks to join her next farrier round. Their engagement is announced between the potatoes and the first argument about a horse.
Emotional payoffWes risks being the visitor instead of the man who always waits up. Coralee lets him see what her ordinary workday asks of her.
Story focusFriends to Lovers • Heroine Falls First
Length30,000 words planned
Book 1 of four

The Mare He Wouldn't Sell

Luz broke Pepper to saddle on the understanding that she’d get first chance to buy her. Clay’s father died before anyone wrote it down. Now Clay has a sale catalogue, a feed bill and a mare he can’t bear to part with either. Luz bets she can show him what Pepper’s worth in a month of cattle work. She hasn’t budgeted for a month of Clay watching her from the next saddle.

Story outline
Story arc and endingPepper turns a scattered pair of yearlings back toward the herd while both riders keep their hands low. It is the first time Luz and Clay agree completely. Clay removes Pepper from the auction while they test her on the trail. Luz learns he wants the mare because she is the last horse his father trained alongside him. He learns Luz wants to breed a dependable working line, which needs stability beyond his farm. When a wealthy bidder arrives, Clay sells a different part of his string and honours Luz’s first option at an independently agreed price. She buys Pepper. On their first anniversary Clay rides beside Luz on one of her trained horses, down to the house they chose together.
Emotional payoffLuz can honour the father’s promise without treating Clay’s grief as an obstacle. Clay sells her the horse while he still has the power to refuse.
Story focusRivals to Lovers • Opposites Attract
Length55,000 words planned
Book 2 of four

Her Name on the Gate

Marnie paints her name on the second gate. Beck takes the sign down. It’s a spectacularly poor beginning for two neighbours who have to move two hundred cows through it before dark. Marnie knows how to deal with an arrogant man. What throws her is finding him at the gate next morning with the sign, a pot of coffee and a question he should have asked yesterday.

Story outline
Story arc and endingIn front of the other outfits Beck asks Marnie to call the crossing. Her first instruction is to close the gate on his side, and he does it. Beck thought her sign marked a closure. Marnie hears in his assumption every decision made for her during her marriage. Together they design a clear crossing signal. Attraction builds while they mend the flood fence. When Marnie’s ex offers to renegotiate her lease through Beck, Beck redirects him to Marnie and discloses the approach. She secures her lease in her own name and asks Beck to paint his on a second mug at her house. Their eventual marriage keeps both ranches and both names on the gates.
Emotional payoffMarnie stops expecting a fight every time she has a say. Beck learns how often asking once saves him an afternoon of apologies.
Story focusRebuilding Life After Divorce • Neighbor Feud to Lovers
Length55,000 words planned
Book 3 of four

Two Saddles Past Sundown

For eleven summers Ellis has slept on Drew’s spare cot, eaten his dreadful biscuits and left before the first hard frost. This year somebody has bought the cot at a yard sale. Drew bought a bigger bed months ago. Neither man has the nerve to explain why. A late cattle drive gives them four nights outdoors and very few places to hide from the question of winter.

Story outline
Story arc and endingUnder the flysheet the men make plans for an imaginary winter. Ellis goes quiet when Drew puts a second chair by the fire and forgets the uncle who taught him to ride. Ellis wants a whole life with Drew, but summer wages support his winters caring for an uncle. Drew’s offhand invitation to stay sounds like a demand that he abandon that obligation. On the drive, Ellis explains his uncle loves company and hates being used as an excuse. Drew spends part of winter with both men, learns the care routine and asks about long-term options. They settle into a seasonal marriage with a room for family visits. The following autumn they ride home with a bigger bed already made.
Emotional payoffDrew stops making permanence depend on a single address. Ellis gives his oldest friend a chance to know the life he has always packed away in October.
Story focusFriends to Lovers • Mutual Pining
Length55,000 words planned
Book 4 of four

Sunday Is the Last Gate

Roy has been shutting the last gate at Sunday supper for three decades. As long as he arrives late, he never has to take the empty chair beside Nadine. Now a hand injury means he has to come in with everybody else. Nadine still makes the gravy he likes. She also still has the letter in which he told her to marry somebody kinder.

Story outline
Story arc and endingRoy brings two old wedding photographs on the ride. Nadine puts them in her saddlebag and tells him the story of a very good afternoon with her late husband. Roy once let an injury and shame make Nadine’s choice for her. Both later married well and have mourned their spouses. When their children try to recreate their youthful courtship, Nadine walks away and invites Roy for an ordinary ride alone. He admits the old letter was cowardice and asks what she wants at fifty-nine. She wants courtship, pleasure and two households for now. By the next autumn they marry at the first gate and close the sixth together, leaving the roast to their grown children.
Emotional payoffTheir new courtship has room for two whole histories. Nadine gets to answer the question Roy decided for her thirty years before.
Story focusSecond Chance Romance • Grief to Hope
Length55,000 words planned

From the free novella into Book 1

The founders of the revived supper invite a horse trainer to the first meal. She recognises a mare her old employer promised to sell her.

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, A Glove at Gate One, 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.

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$235 per book

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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)