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💼🔥 **5 BOOK Crime fiction; Police procedural; Mystery; Romantic suspense SERIES CODEX + OUTLINE FOR SALE!** 🔥💼

### **The Stillwater Cases**
**Codex + Complete Story Outline**

If you love **Crime fiction; Police procedural; Mystery; Romantic suspense**, this package is tailored just for you.

**What you get:**
✅ **Complete Codex** — detailed characters, locations, objects, lore, and subplots
✅ **A structured series outline with beats mapped for cold-case procedural momentum + slow-burn workplace romance pacing**
✅ **Market-ready tropes:** Cold Case; Workplace Romance; Grumpy/Sunshine; Big City Setting; Found Family; Partners-to-Lovers; Forced Proximity; Slow Burn; Case from the Past; Personal Stakes; Hurt/Comfort; Cultural Conflict; One Hotel Room; The Detective’s Dark Past; Rogue Investigator; Romantic Pro-Tension; Past Comes Calling; The Resolution; Finally a Couple; Justice is Served
✅ **Flexible voice and polish** ready to fit into your author brand

### Premise:
Haunted by the cold case of her sister’s disappearance, Detective **Sorcha Kinealy** transfers to the Philadelphia PD’s underfunded Historical Homicide Division (**“The Archive”**) and teams with Detective **Min-jun Bae** to solve long-forgotten cold cases. The series blends **atmospheric big-city procedural investigations** with a **slow-burn workplace romance** and Sorcha’s long-running quest for closure—culminating in resolution of her sister’s case in **Book 5**, while setting up ongoing future cases.

### 📚 The Books:
📖 **Book 1: The Answering Machine Tapes** — Still reeling from a personal tragedy that derailed her career, Sorcha lands in The Archive for one last chance to prove herself. When deteriorating microcassette tapes resurface from an old evidence locker, she and the quiet, meticulous Min-jun reopen a 25-year-old debutante disappearance—pulling them into old money rot, buried resentments, and a partnership sparking with reluctant chemistry.

📖 **Book 2: What the Static Said** — A viral documentary about Philadelphia’s 1980s punk scene cracks open a legendary frontman’s “accidental overdose” and drops a new witness into The Archive’s lap. Sorting truth from myth in a world of faded zines and bitter rivalries, Sorcha and Min-jun are forced into long hours and tighter quarters—until Min-jun’s steady presence starts breaking through Sorcha’s defenses.

📖 **Book 3: Where the Immortelles Bloom** — Human remains unearthed at a construction site reopen a 40-year-old missing person case with deep ties to Min-jun’s family and the city’s Korean-American community. As they confront an original investigation warped by cultural misunderstanding and indifference, Sorcha becomes Min-jun’s anchor—blurring the line between partner and something neither of them is prepared to name.

📖 **Book 4: The Ten-Year Winter** — An anonymous tip delivers a chilling detail about Sorcha’s sister’s decade-old disappearance, and the case stops being history—it becomes personal. While officially juggling a parallel cold case, Sorcha goes off-book and spirals into a dangerous private investigation, forcing Min-jun to choose between protocol and protecting the woman he can’t stop wanting.

📖 **Book 5: A Name for the Unmarked** — Sorcha’s hunt detonates into a citywide conspiracy linking forgotten crimes to powerful people across Philadelphia. With their careers—and lives—on the line, Sorcha and Min-jun assemble the final devastating pieces of the puzzle, closing the case that defined her adulthood and finally giving them a chance to choose a future beyond ghosts.

✨ **Genre:** Crime fiction; Police procedural; Mystery; Romantic suspense
✨ **Tone:** Moody, gritty, atmospheric, character-driven, emotionally intense—layered with a slow-burn romantic undercurrent and escalating personal stakes
✨ **Book Titles:** The Answering Machine Tapes; What the Static Said; Where the Immortelles Bloom; The Ten-Year Winter; A Name for the Unmarked

📦 **Perfect for authors who want a market-ready project where each book delivers a satisfying cold-case resolution while the leads’ slow-burn partnership and Sorcha’s long-running personal mystery build to a high-stakes, emotionally cathartic payoff in Book 5.**

⚡ **First come, first served — once it’s sold, it’s gone for good.**
**SALES ARE FINAL!!**