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The Borrowed Pulse Parlour

Name: The Borrowed Pulse Parlour: premade three-book series
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At a red door in Glasgow, a vampire can borrow a heartbeat for seven minutes. Asking somebody to stay for supper takes longer.

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The Borrowed Pulse Parlour, a contemporary vampire romance concept package. The graphic shows 3 novel covers and the free lead magnet, Seven Minutes of Cherry.

The concept

Neve remembers the taste of the shore down to the salt on a particular quay. Rosa wants that taste in her cooking, which makes their first appointment easy to explain. Her wish to lay a place for Neve every night is rather more personal.

A chef, a ballroom pianist and a cinema accompanist find love around a parlour where a loan can end the instant either partner lets go. Each romance asks what the lovers can give one another after the clock stops. In the free opening novella, an old friendship changes over a red glass and a single ripe cherry.

The worldThe parlour holds private appointments after a cooling-off interview. One loan per pair per week. Touch starts the clock. Either partner can release it. Vampires otherwise live active nights and feed from a regulated blood supply. A borrowed beat conveys sensation, never desire or consent.

Series tropesVampire Romance • Hidden World • Slow Burn

Intended readershipFor readers of sensual paranormal romance who like vampires in ordinary cities, precise supernatural rules and dates whose smallest physical details matter.

Tone & contentAdult, open-door and lushly sensory. Pulse lending is consensual. The vampire partners stay vampires in their happy endings.

The people behind the promise

Free novellaImogen Nessthe human night concierge

Free novellaIvor Cairdthe vampire glassblower who fitted the parlour

Book 1Rosa Gilroya human chef who salts everything twice

Book 1Neve Dalziela vampire former oyster seller

Book 2Vincent Suttiea vampire ballroom pianist

Book 2Ada Orlova human social dancer with a famously strict count

Book 3Florence Vassa vampire silent-film accompanist

Book 3Suni Kempthe human projectionist restoring a neighbourhood cinema

Series arc

A first cherry tasting makes the parlour’s opening night memorable. A restaurant builds a midnight table, a ballroom learns a different rhythm, and a beloved cinema gives the neighbourhood performances on both sides of sunset. The parlour becomes a place couples can leave behind once they have met.

The three books

The direction is set. The books are written after you order.

Free novella

Seven Minutes of Cherry

Imogen has polished the red tasting glasses for a month. Ivor has made them all exactly wrong, because he can’t remember the size of a cherry in a living mouth. When opening night leaves one appointment free, Imogen offers him seven minutes. She has been his friend for nine years. She can surely survive the sight of him tasting something sweet.

Story outline

Story arc and endingHalfway through a second evening in the workshop, Ivor makes the red glass by memory alone. Imogen sees what he retained after the pulse stopped. The cherry makes Ivor cry halfway through their loan. Imogen stops the clock at once, certain she has hurt him. He admits it brought back his sister’s garden and that being seen in grief felt more intimate than the touch. They court for several weeks without another loan. At their first anniversary, he gives her an imperfect cherry-sized glass and the keys to his house. They book their next tasting for pleasure.

Emotional payoffImogen learns to stay beside his grief. Ivor can ask for a date on a night when she has no sensation to lend.

Story focusFriends to Lovers • Grumpy/Sunshine

Length30,000 words planned

Book 1 of three

The First Beat Tastes of Salt

Rosa needs somebody who remembers the flavour of the shore before fast ferries. Neve knows it so well she can describe the salt by the corner of the quay. A tasting starts a late-night courtship over burners and chipped plates. Then Rosa gets a supper-club booking for two hundred living customers. She can put Neve’s name on every menu. The trouble is inviting her to the table.

Story outline

Story arc and endingNeve tastes one oyster on the first appointment. Next week she brings its empty shell to supper and waits to see whether Rosa has set her a place. Rosa trains herself to make Neve’s dish from description. In love, she proposes a succession of donors so Neve can taste a whole meal. Neve refuses to spend an evening being passed around and asks why Rosa never invites her when there’s nothing to taste. Rosa moves their date to the fish market after closing. Neve teaches her to choose oysters by weight and sound. They open their home for midnight suppers and marry with a midnight wedding breakfast that includes a chair for every guest, living or otherwise.

Emotional payoffRosa frees herself from the cooks’ habit of measuring care by what somebody can eat. Neve says aloud that she wants to be asked back.

Story focusOpposites Attract • Strangers to Lovers

Length55,000 words planned

Book 2 of three

Dance While the Pulse Holds

Vincent can keep time for an entire ballroom. Ada insists he rushes the foxtrot. They settle it with one borrowed heartbeat and exactly seven minutes on the floor. Somewhere between the first step and the last turn, Ada loses count. Vincent would give a great deal to know whether she would still choose him when his chest goes quiet.

Story outline

Story arc and endingVincent stops the music halfway through rehearsal and lets Ada lead him across an empty ballroom. She feels his hand keeping a count nobody else can hear. They meet weekly to rehearse and find themselves dreading the clock. At a contest Vincent asks for an extra loan and Ada refuses because the first left her tired. His disappointment makes her wonder if he only wants the pulse. He learns to dance using the pressure of her hand and his own long training. At the social final she follows when he changes the pace. Later they teach a weekly class together, and their wedding dance lasts well past seven minutes.

Emotional payoffAda has to trust her own limits. Vincent finds a way to express desire through the body he lives in every night.

Story focusRivals to Lovers • Mutual Pining

Length55,000 words planned

Book 3 of three

A Heartbeat for the Matinee

Suni’s mother used to say that every film deserved an audience in daylight. Now Suni is reopening her cinema and Florence has agreed to play one last matinee. Seven borrowed minutes will get Florence across the sunlit foyer. They won’t tell her how to sit at the piano where she once held Suni’s hand, or what to do when the credits roll and Suni wants the rest of the day.

Story outline

Story arc and endingSuni screens her mother’s favourite comedy for Florence at midnight and catches her laughing at precisely the scene her mother hated. Florence stayed away during the mother’s last illness because daytime hospital visits seemed impossible. Suni remembers waiting alone at night, too. Florence admits she let fear of grief disguise itself as a practical problem. She helps arrange blackout routes and hires another accompanist to share the programme. Suni keeps her mother’s matinee and invites Florence to the late show as her date. A year later their home is above the cinema, and Florence can reach the piano by a dark stair whenever she chooses.

Emotional payoffFlorence admits that immortality has made her afraid to show up for a finite life. Suni lets a new memory occupy the seat beside the old one.

Story focusReunion Romance • Grief to Hope

Length55,000 words planned

From the free novella into Book 1

The parlour’s founders give a restaurant cook their last opening-night appointment. She comes back with sea salt and the first novel’s invitation.

In the concept package

Includes the author pitch, editable Authorythm seeds and individual AI-generated front-cover concepts. The planned fiction totals 195,000 words.

Included free

Buy the 3-book concept pack and receive the companion lead magnet concept free. Each novel is planned at 55,000 words. The lead magnet, Seven Minutes of Cherry, 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. 4 coordinated front-cover concepts.