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💼🔥 CODEX + OUTLINE FOR SALE! 🔥💼
**The Auctioneer’s Dilemma**
**Codex + Complete Story Outline**
If you love witty contemporary romance with high-stakes intellectual sparring and a charming fish-out-of-water hero, this package is ready-made for you.
**What you get:**
✅ Complete Codex — detailed characters, locations, objects, lore, and subplots
✅ A structured 30-chapter outline with beats mapped for a perfect rivals-to-lovers slow burn
✅ Market-ready tropes: Fish Out of Water, Mistaken Identity, Fake Expertise, Art World Rivalry, Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Witty Banter, One Bed, Grumpy/Sunshine, Grand Gesture, Authenticity vs. Ambition, Secret Relationship, Auction Showdown, Happily Ever After (HEA)
✅ Flexible voice and polish ready for your author brand
**Premise:**
Socially awkward botanist Alistair Finch would rather talk to his petunias than people. But when his university’s beloved greenhouse faces the wrecking ball, he’s forced to do the unthinkable. Mistaken for a reclusive (and brilliant) art historian, Alistair accepts a high-paying job at a prestigious auction house, hoping to fake it long enough to save his life’s work.
His plan has one major flaw: Julian Vance. Sharp, cynical, and devastatingly handsome, the auction house’s star appraiser is immediately suspicious of the bumbling ‘expert’ in his midst. Their rivalry is instant and electric, a clash of wills and witty barbs that forces them into dangerously close quarters. As professional tension ignites a secret, passionate affair, Alistair finds himself falling for the one man who could expose his entire charade.
✨ **Genre:** Art World RomCom
✨ **Tone:** Witty, sharp, and steamy with a heartwarming, high-stakes emotional core
✨ **Length Target:** ~75,000 words / 30 Chapters
📦 Perfect for authors who want a market-ready project where the chemistry between a charming fraud and a suspicious cynic writes itself.
⚡ First come, first served — once it’s gone, it’s gone.
**SALES ARE FINAL!!**
