Free novella
The Box Marked Mum
Len offers to carry the box marked Mum. Marion has done fifty years of answering to that label and wants him to call her something else. He remembers precisely what he used to call her at the allotments.
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The Last Box Daughters
Their mother kept one box for each daughter. Each contains the thing she put down when she fell in love.
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The concept
When Marion Bellamy moves into a flat of her own, she gives each grown daughter one last box from the old house. Inside are dancing shoes, an apron and a postcard. None comes with a letter telling anybody what to do. Each daughter knows perfectly well whom the object makes her long to see, and exactly why she has been avoiding them.
Sally’s shoes have been unworn since the evening she chose a marriage proposal over a dance audition. Neil teaches beginners now. When she walks into his class he remembers the steps she always missed and the kiss that came afterward. The free companion novella is The Box Marked Mum.
The worldThe Bellamys live near Coventry. Marion is happily making her own decisions. The daughters can ask her about the past, though her memories seldom match theirs.
Series tropesReunion Romance • Slow Burn • Opposites Life Goals
Intended readershipFor readers who enjoy the span of a woman’s friendships, work and family life around a central adult love story.
Tone & contentIntimate, moderately open-door romance. Divorce, changing family roles and caregiving. Each daughter’s love story closes in her own book.
The people behind the promise
Free novellaMarion Bellamya retired caretaker
Free novellaLen Cottamthe allotment neighbour she courted briefly in her twenties
Book 1Sally Bellamya divorced teaching assistant
Book 1Neil Copeher former dancing partner
Book 2Caroline Bellamya school cook
Book 2Mags Tierneythe restaurateur who once wanted to take her on the road
Book 3Anna Bellamya home-care worker
Book 3Celeste Birdthe woman who drew a postcard for her
Series arc
Marion courts someone without consulting her children. One daughter goes back to dancing, another admits how little she wants to cook for strangers, and the youngest follows a postcard to the woman she left at the coast.
The three books
The direction is set. The books are written after you order.
Book 1 of three
The Shoes I Never Took
Sally’s shoes have been unworn since the evening she chose a marriage proposal over a dance audition. Neil teaches beginners now. When she walks into his class he remembers the steps she always missed and the kiss that came afterward.
Story outline
Book 2 of three
An Apron Folded Twice
The apron in Caroline’s box bears two embroidered initials. Mags stitched them the summer they fed a hundred strangers and kissed precisely once. Caroline wants to return the apron. She is less sure she wants to give back the memory.
Story outline
Book 3 of three
The Postcard Under the Lid
A postcard of an empty deckchair drops out of Anna’s box. On the back is an invitation dated eighteen years ago. Anna has a rare weekend free and Celeste still draws portraits on the same promenade.
Story outline
From the free novella into Book 1
Marion’s move sends the first box to her eldest daughter, who recognises the shoes before she remembers the dance.
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 Box Marked Mum, 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.
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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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