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The Women Covering Leave

Name: The Women Covering Leave: premade three-book series
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A temporary job can show a woman the permanent life she has stopped questioning.

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The Women Covering Leave, a women's fiction concept package. The graphic shows 3 novel covers and the free lead magnet, The Apron With No Name Yet.

The concept

Three women in Bristol take maternity, family or recovery cover at ordinary workplaces. Each is welcomed as the person who will keep someone else’s place warm. As months pass, the woman who left and the one who stepped in begin to want different things. The difficult part is telling each other before a roomful of colleagues decides for them.

Eve has reorganised her life around having Thursdays free. Agnes is coming back and also wants Thursdays. The noticeboard is full of opinions written by people available on Thursdays. The free companion novella is The Apron With No Name Yet.

The worldSeparate workplaces and a small evening gathering for temporary workers. The stakes are identity, friendship, care and what kind of work fits a life. Each woman has agency when the handover comes.

Series tropesFish Out of Water • Underdog • Opposites Life Goals

Intended readershipFor contemporary women’s fiction readers drawn to adult friendship, the value of overlooked work and the private cost of being dependable.

Tone & contentWarm and unsentimental, with divorce and family care. Each heroine makes an active choice about her future.

The people behind the promise

Free novellaMiranda Coot, a recently divorced school cook covering a leave, and the returning cook.

Book 1Eve Gannona temporary caretaker and single mother

Book 1Agnesthe woman on leave

Book 2Shirley Lomasa middle-aged cover receptionist

Book 2Monicathe woman whose desk she inherited

Book 3Parveen Chahala returning youth worker

Book 3Raethe temporary worker who took over during family leave

Series arc

An apron without a name starts the group. A Thursday rota, a borrowed chair and an unwritten final handover move it from mutual reassurance to honest choices about what comes next.

The three books

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

Free novella

The Apron With No Name Yet

Nobody knows which name to embroider on the spare apron. Miranda has spent three months answering to the other cook’s. On the last Friday both women turn up to serve lunch.

Story outline

Story arc and endingThe returning cook is frightened by a room that now runs smoothly without her. Miranda has been pretending she wants the full post. They cook together through a failed delivery and admit their conflicting wishes. Miranda chooses flexible teaching-kitchen work and keeps a plain apron for Thursday suppers. The returning cook invites her as a guest rather than a rival.

Emotional payoffBeing good at a job no longer obliges Miranda to make it her whole identity.

Story focusRebuilding Life After Divorce

Length30,000 words planned

Book 1 of three

The Woman Who Kept Thursdays

Eve has reorganised her life around having Thursdays free. Agnes is coming back and also wants Thursdays. The noticeboard is full of opinions written by people available on Thursdays.

Story outline

Story arc and endingThey try swapping entire weeks and discover that this solves neither woman’s care duties. Eve’s daughter asks which afternoon they actually like together, and Agnes admits one of her appointments is a choir she has concealed as unimportant. They propose a wider rotation after talking to the whole team. Eve chooses a permanent role at a different building with the afternoons she truly needs. Their Thursday friendship continues monthly.

Emotional payoffNeither has to win a suffering contest to claim an ordinary pleasure.

Story focusSingle Parent

Length55,000 words planned

Book 2 of three

My Last Week in Her Chair

Shirley has one week left in Monica’s chair. The callers all ask after Monica and nobody asks what Shirley will do next. Then Monica confides that coming back is the last thing she wants.

Story outline

Story arc and endingMonica’s recovery changed the future she had assumed. Shirley mistakes her confidence for the promise of a job. After a painful misunderstanding she helps Monica tell the team in her own time and applies on her own merits. She loses the post, takes a local archive role that uses the listening skills she discovered and keeps Monica as a friend. They meet on two unborrowed chairs.

Emotional payoffA real defeat can still reveal work Shirley would have chosen for herself.

Story focusGrief to Hope

Length55,000 words planned

Book 3 of three

The Handover Nobody Wrote

Parveen asks her old friend Rae for the handover. Rae gives her a notebook full of names and no instructions. The young people’s first question is whether both women intend to disappear again.

Story outline

Story arc and endingRae has helped the group direct its own sessions and worries a written plan will turn their choices into orders. Parveen worries that listening without a record will lose quieter voices. They ask the young adults to describe what must survive, then document the options together. Parveen resumes on new terms and Rae chooses to train adult volunteers. Their friendship now includes room to disagree.

Emotional payoffThe best handover gives the people who remain a say in what they inherit.

Story focusChildhood Friends

Length55,000 words planned

From the free novella into Book 1

The first temporary worker opens her Thursday table to a stranger wearing someone else’s uniform.

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 Apron With No Name Yet, 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.