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💼🔥 CODEX + OUTLINE FOR SALE! 🔥💼

**Murder à la Mode**
Codex + Complete Story Outline

If you love **foodie cozy mysteries with a dash of grumpy/sunshine romance and small-town charm**, this package is ready-made for you.

**What you get:**
✅ **Complete Codex** — detailed characters, locations, objects, lore, and subplots
✅ A structured **26-chapter outline** with beats mapped for **the murder investigation and slow-burn romance**
✅ **Market-ready tropes:** Pastry Chef Sleuth, Female Sleuth, Small-Town Setting, Found Family, Cat Sidekick, Small Business Owner, Fish Out of Water, The Frame-Up, Slow Burn Romance, Grumpy/Sunshine, Red Herring, Quirky Elder, Antagonist Revealed, Rising Stakes, Deepening the Mystery, Midpoint Shift, Ticking Clock, All is Lost, Kitchen Confrontation, Restoration of Social Order, Recipe Included
✅ Flexible voice and polish ready for your author brand

**Premise:**
Burnt-out city pastry chef Zoe Adler has traded chaos for comfort, pouring her life savings into her dream bakery in the quaint town of Calder’s Landing. But her grand opening week turns sour when a notoriously vicious food critic is found murdered behind her shop, a half-eaten pastry from her kitchen the only clue. Suddenly, Zoe isn’t just the new baker in town—she’s the prime suspect.

Framed for the crime and distrusted by the weary—and maddeningly handsome—lead detective, Zoe must use her meticulous skills to sift through the town’s residents and their secrets. As she uncovers a web of blackmail and old scandals, she’s forced into a reluctant partnership with the one man who thinks she’s guilty. Can Zoe find the real killer before her new life, her bakery, and her freedom all go up in smoke?

✨ **Genre:** Cozy Mystery
✨ **Tone:** Witty, charming, and suspenseful
✨ **Length Target:** ~65,000 words (26 chapters at ~2,500 words each)

📦 Perfect for authors who want a market-ready project where **a delicious mystery and a swoon-worthy romance bake up perfectly.**

⚡ First come, first served — once it’s gone, it’s gone.

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