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💼🔥 CODEX + OUTLINE FOR SALE! 🔥💼
**The Barista Who Hated Meet-Cutes**
Codex + Complete Story Outline
If you love **cozy, slightly whimsical contemporary romance with grumpy/sunshine vibes, everyday magic, and slow-burn workplace chemistry**, this package is ready-made for you.
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### What you get:
✅ **Complete Codex** — detailed characters, locations, objects, lore, and subplots centered around a magical neighborhood café and its emotionally guarded barista
✅ **A structured 8-chapter outline** with beats mapped for **slow-burn grumpy/sunshine workplace romance pacing**
✅ **Market-ready tropes:**
– grumpy barista
– wrong order “meets your mood” magic
– everyday whimsy & cozy café vibes
– opposites attract
– persistent, bubbly customer
– slow-burn charm & simmering tension
– author studying real-life inspiration
– workplace romance / co-workers to lovers
– forced proximity behind the counter
– grumpy exterior hiding a soft, grateful heart
– counter collision / almost-spill moment
– he falls harder than he admits
– internal conflict preventing relationship progress
– secret manuscript reveal
– emotional intimacy before full physical intimacy
– slow-burn culmination
– rainstorm intimacy & storm-locked confession
– emotional breakthrough & vulnerability arc
– love transforming ordinary life
– found family in a neighborhood café
– satisfying HEA with shared dream fulfilled
✅ **Flexible voice and polish** ready to be adapted to your author brand—lean romcom, cozy, or more emotional depending on your prose style and spice level.
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### Premise:
Ezra Holloway runs his quiet, brick-walled café like a fortress, keeping customers at a polite distance and his heart under lock and key. Years ago, the intuitive “coffee magic” that lets him serve people exactly the drink they *need*—not always what they *order*—went terribly wrong, and he’s never forgiven himself. Now, the emotionally guarded barista survives on routine and control…until bubbly romance novelist Wren Delacroix claims a regular seat in his shop and starts getting “wrong orders” that match her mood with unnerving precision. Her curiosity about the grumpy barista and his uncanny drink instincts turns into an obsession—for both her next book and the man who clearly doesn’t believe in meet-cutes.
When Wren takes a temporary job at the café to “research,” forced proximity turns their wary banter into undeniable chemistry. A stolen first kiss behind the counter blows up the careful rules Ezra lives by, and his fear of emotional vulnerability nearly sabotages what’s growing between them. Wren’s secret manuscript—starring a brooding, magically gifted barista suspiciously similar to Ezra—pushes everything to a breaking point. Trapped together in the café during a thunderstorm, they’re forced into an honest reckoning with their fears, desires, and the magic binding them. Choosing trust over self-protection, they finally let themselves fall. Months later, they’re partners in both love and business, running a thriving neighborhood haven where found family gathers, everyday magic is real, and Wren’s new novel proves that some meet-cutes are absolutely worth believing in.
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✨ **Genre:** Contemporary Romance (Light Magical Realism / Everyday Whimsy)
✨ **Tone:** Warm, cozy, gently whimsical, emotional but low-angst, banter-filled slow burn with heartfelt vulnerability and a deeply satisfying HEA
✨ **Length Target:** ~8 × 2,500-word chapters (approx. 20,000 words) — easily expandable to novel-length
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📦 **Perfect for authors who want** a market-ready project where:
– the **structure, tropes, and character arcs are already dialed in**,
– the **emotional beats and romance pacing are clearly mapped**, and
– you’re free to focus on **voice, prose, and spice level** while knowing the story *works* for contemporary romance readers.
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