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💼🔥 CODEX + OUTLINE FOR SALE! 🔥💼

Murder at the Gnome Garden
Codex + Complete Story Outline

If you love whimsical paranormal cozy mysteries with magical gardens, midlife heroines, and sentient sidekicks, this package is ready-made for you.

What you get:
✅ Complete Codex — detailed characters, locations, magical botany, enchanted objects, lore, and subplots
✅ A structured 8-chapter outline with beats mapped for classic closed-circle cozy mystery pacing
✅ Market-ready tropes: Amateur sleuth; quirky clues; closed circle mystery; competent heroine; magical midlife; sentient object companion; community gossip; light danger; whimsical tone; community building
✅ Flexible voice and polish ready for your author brand

Premise:
Retired magical botanist Cordelia Bloom-Thatcher inherits Gnomewood, a decaying Victorian estate with an infamous walled garden and a reputation for mischief. Her plans for a quiet, herb-scented retirement shatter when she discovers the body of a pushy real estate developer face-down in her petunia patch—just as the estate’s ancient magic awakens Jasper Ironbeard, a stubborn, truth-obsessed sentient garden gnome. With the garden walls sealed by old protective wards and only three people inside when the murder occurred, Cordelia finds herself locked in a literal closed-circle mystery.

As truth-sensitive plants react to lies, poisonous blossoms reveal motives, and Gnomewood’s history bleeds into the present, Cordelia must untangle a web of land grabs, forged documents, and small-town resentments. While she gradually eliminates each suspect, the clues point somewhere no one in town wants to look: the lead detective in charge of the case. To protect her new home and the community she’s only just rejoined, Cordelia must outwit a killer, expose a broader forgery scheme, and accept that she’s not retiring—she’s stepping into her new role as the town’s magical consultant and protector.

✨ Genre: Cozy Mystery (Paranormal / Magical Garden Cozy)
✨ Tone: Whimsical, warm, lightly spooky, low-gore, community-focused
✨ Length Target: ~20,000 words • 8 Chapters

📦 Perfect for authors who want a market-ready project with a tight, closed-circle murder, a charming magical system, and an instantly brandable midlife heroine they can expand into a full series.

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