Free novella
The Wrong Lunch Bag
In her daughter’s bag Sue finds a note asking a stranger to pick up a child on Friday. Her ex says Sue has mixed up the lunches again. The handwriting is his sister’s.
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The Handover Families
Six o’clock looks simple on a custody calendar. Somebody still has to bring the child.
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The concept
In a Suffolk town, parents meet former partners in public places for weekend handovers. Each family knows the rules worked out at its own kitchen table. A changed bag, a late car or a substitute adult can be an innocent kindness. That familiarity also makes it possible to move a child or discredit a parent in front of witnesses who think they saw an ordinary Sunday.
At six the usual hatchback is parked empty. Jan’s new partner says she drove off with their son. Carl can see the boy’s football boots still in the boot, laced together the way Jan always does before returning them. The free companion novella is The Wrong Lunch Bag.
The worldLinked standalone families share the town. Children have ages, loyalties and somewhere safe to go. Adults and independent records carry the burden of proof.
Series tropesSingle Parent • Rebuilding Life After Divorce • Small Town
Intended readershipFor domestic thriller readers drawn to divided households, conflicting loyalties and an everyday deadline.
Tone & contentChild endangerment without on-page child injury. Adult betrayals are exposed and the children end each story safe.
The people behind the promise
Free novellaSue Bland, newly divorced, and another mother at the school gate.
Book 1Carl Preece, a single father, and his ex-wife Jan.
Book 2Debs Allan, an apprentice baker, and her ex-husband’s eldest daughter.
Book 3Penny Goodwina teaching assistant
Book 3Livher son’s newly arrived grandmother
Series arc
One parent corrects a bag mix-up. Later handovers conceal an attack, a false weekend history and an attempted family abduction. Each parent has to build a safer arrangement after the truth emerges.
The three books
The direction is set. The books are written after you order.
Book 1 of three
Six O'Clock at the Car Park
At six the usual hatchback is parked empty. Jan’s new partner says she drove off with their son. Carl can see the boy’s football boots still in the boot, laced together the way Jan always does before returning them.
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Book 2 of three
The Weekend on His Calendar
A family calendar puts Debs’s son at his dad’s for three weekends running. Her son remembers only one. The photographs offered to settle it show the same icing stain on three different Saturdays.
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Book 3 of three
The Mother at the Other Gate
Penny’s first coffee with an old flame runs late. A grandmother she has met exactly once is already waiting at the other gate with the correct password. Somebody in the family changed the plan without telling Penny.
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From the free novella into Book 1
The lunch-bag case introduces an agreed public meeting place. The first novel opens there with two adults missing.
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, The Wrong Lunch Bag, 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.
What you get with this pack
- Three completed booksDeveloped from the pack you choose.
- Editing and human proofreadingFor every manuscript.
- Three coordinated coversA recognisable identity across the series.
- Blurbs and Amazon metadataFor all three 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.
3-book package
$705
$235 per book · Save $75
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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