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💼🔥 CODEX + OUTLINE FOR SALE! 🔥💼

**Rind and Punishment**
Codex + Complete Story Outline

If you love quirky culinary cozy mysteries with a dash of romance and a determined, plucky heroine, this package is ready-made for you.

**What you get:**
✅ Complete Codex — detailed characters, locations, objects, lore, and subplots
✅ A structured 22-chapter outline with beats mapped for classic cozy mystery pacing
✅ Market-ready tropes: Amateur Sleuth, Rivals to Romance, Food Competition, Small Town Setting, Red Herring, Sabotage, The System vs. The Sleuth, Authenticity vs. Fraud, Confronting the Killer, Justice is Served.
✅ Flexible voice and polish ready for your author brand

**Premise:**
For cheese shop owner Izzy Finch, winning the prestigious Golden Ladle at the Portrenier Founder’s Fair is more than a dream—it’s the only way to save her struggling business. She’s staked everything on her signature stilton, but her hopes crumble when a notoriously nasty food critic collapses and dies moments after tasting her entry.

When the police declare her cheese was the delivery method for the poison, Izzy becomes the town pariah and their prime suspect. With her reputation shredded and a detective who’s already decided she’s guilty, Izzy must trade her cheese knife for a magnifying glass. To clear her name, she’ll have to slice through a festival full of bitter rivals, secret recipes, and hidden grudges. But as she gets closer to the truth, she must decide if she can trust her prime competitor—a frustratingly handsome rival chef—before the real killer decides she’s the next course.

✨ **Genre:** Culinary Cozy Mystery
✨ **Tone:** Witty, charming, and suspenseful
✨ **Length Target:** ~55,000 words

📦 Perfect for authors who want a market-ready project where a twisty, market-ready mystery is already baked in, letting you focus on bringing a cheese-loving sleuth to life.

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

**SALES ARE FINAL!!**