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Where We Were Standing

Name: Where We Were Standing: premade three-book series
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Two people can tell the truth about a place and still describe different events.

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Where We Were Standing, a psychological thriller concept package. The graphic shows 3 novel covers and the free lead magnet, The Chalk Mark at the Crossing.

The concept

In a market town with steep streets and odd sightlines, retired crossing guard Tess Moody takes people back to places where they believe they witnessed something terrible. With each return, a person must separate what they saw from the story they have depended on ever since. Standing in exactly the right place can be more unsettling than finding a liar.

Alec saw a red sleeve shove his sister from the bridge. On a return visit he sees that same sleeve flutter when nobody is standing there. The woman he blamed has lived with his story for twenty years. The free companion novella is The Chalk Mark at the Crossing.

The worldFour separate adult witnesses approach Tess privately. Geography, independently dated observations and ordinary human choices settle the difference. No convenient loss of memory resolves a case.

Series tropesSmall Town • Underdog • Grief to Hope

Intended readershipPsychological suspense for readers who enjoy testing a narrator’s certainty against a place they can picture.

Tone & contentPast violence and grief. An incomplete perception is treated fairly and each mystery has a resolved reality.

The people behind the promise

Free novellaTess Moody and her late colleague’s daughter Bev.

Book 1Alec South, a retired caretaker, and his dead sister’s former girlfriend.

Book 2Janice Frost, an isolated widow, and Tess.

Book 3Tracey Bale, a former festival steward, and her estranged sister.

Series arc

A chalk mark disproves a careless accusation. A bridge reflection, a door seen in reverse and a crowd on split levels force three witnesses to face their stake in the wrong answer.

The three books

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

Free novella

The Chalk Mark at the Crossing

Bev puts a chalk cross exactly where she remembers a driver jumping the kerb. Tess stood there for thirty years and knows a waiting bus blocks the view.

Story outline

Story arc and endingBev saw the aftermath through a shop mirror after the bus pulled away. She attached the colour of the first passing car to the impact. A delivery route sheet and a dented bollard place a different van there. The driver admits clipping the pedestrian and leaving. Bev corrects a public accusation and apologises to the neighbour she blamed.

Emotional payoffGrief ceases to require certainty from either woman.

Story focusChildhood Friends

Length30,000 words planned

Book 1 of three

The Footbridge From This Side

Story outline

Story arc and endingA flag on the far bank appears beside a figure in the mill window only from Alec’s original angle. His sister was running from her violent stepfather and fell while crossing the broken rail. The girlfriend tried to catch her. Repair complaints, a former mill worker and the stepfather’s separate threat establish the pursuit. Alec goes to police with the woman he once accused.

Emotional payoffHe lets the person his sister loved tell her own part of the story.

Story focusHidden Relationship

Length55,000 words planned

Book 2 of three

The Door I Watched Behind Me

Janice watched a man enter the green door behind her. He was arrested for what happened in the flat. Now the landlord has painted the door blue, and in Janice’s account it has always been blue.

Story outline

Story arc and endingShe watched the door opposite reflected in a bus shelter, then rehearsed the arresting officer’s route until it felt like hers. The paint dates and a witness in the opposite building identify a married visitor sneaking out. The actual attacker used a yard gate left open by Janice’s son. She protects him from false blame by admitting his smaller secret. Independent CCTV at a side shop identifies the attacker.

Emotional payoffJanice can protect a son without protecting the story she told about him.

Story focusMistaken Identity

Length55,000 words planned

Book 3 of three

The Steps Below the Crowd

Tracey remembers being eye to eye with the person who started a crush. The steps place her a full head lower. Her sister, who lost a friend there, is preparing to name the wrong woman again.

Story outline

Story arc and endingAn organiser staged a later demonstration for cameras on a different flight of steps. Tracey has combined that image with the real crush. A dropped shoe photographed at the true landing and a stallholder’s account show that a locked exit caused the surge. The organiser had closed it to keep protesters away. Tracey discloses her own failure to question the closure, and an inquiry clears the accused woman.

Emotional payoffThe sisters can mourn one friend without creating another victim.

Story focusRevenge

Length55,000 words planned

From the free novella into Book 1

Tess keeps the first chalk sketch. A former neighbour asks her to draw the footbridge where his sister died.

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 Chalk Mark at the Crossing, 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.