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💼🔥 **4 BOOK Contemporary Romance SERIES CODEX + OUTLINE FOR SALE!** 🔥💼

### **The Wayward Tides**
**Codex + Complete Story Outline**

If you love **contemporary small-town romance with found family, second chances, and slow-burn “he falls first” swoon**, 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 **slow-burn small-town romance pacing** (meet-cute/trigger event → forced closeness → emotional bonding → midpoint shift → black moment → grand gesture/HEA)
✅ **Market-ready tropes:** Reunion Romance; He Falls First; Second Chance; Grumpy/Sunshine; Small Town; Forced Proximity; Opposites Attract; Rivals to Lovers; Single Parent; Found Family; Slow Burn; Best Friend’s Sister; Friends to Lovers; Pining Hero
✅ **Flexible voice and polish** ready to fit into your author brand

**Premise:**
In the windswept island town of **Fidalgo Landing**, the **Salt & Cedar Boathouse Collective** is a sanctuary for mending hearts. Each story follows a member of this tight-knit found family as they navigate second chances, unexpected reunions, and slow-burning love—finding their anchor after being adrift.

📚 **The Books:**
📖 **Book 1: The Part You Left Behind** — Ten years after running from everything she knew, **Leona Hess** returns to Fidalgo Landing ready to sell her late grandfather’s legacy: the struggling Salt & Cedar Boathouse. But **Declan Ballard**—her first love and the boathouse’s devoted head craftsman—stands in her way, forcing her to face the home she abandoned and the man who never truly let her go.

📖 **Book 2: The Last Stop on the Route** — A van breakdown strands travel blogger **Zoya Ali** in Fidalgo Landing, and she’s ready to turn the town into her next “hidden gem.” **Silas Calder**, a grumpy ferry captain protective of his quiet life, is forced to house her in his secluded guest cabin—only to discover the longer she stays, the harder it becomes to imagine letting her leave.

📖 **Book 3: A Recipe for Trust** — Ambitious chef **Priya Varma** is determined to open a farm-to-table restaurant, but she’ll need the best local ingredients—and that means negotiating with **Owen Hemlock**, a stubborn single-dad fisherman convinced she’ll ruin the town’s character. As Priya proves she’s here to invest in the community (and bonds with Owen’s daughter), Owen realizes he’s risking far more than his livelihood.

📖 **Book 4: The Space Between a Heartbeat** — Musician **Mateo Garza** has spent years quietly in love with **Carys Calder**, his best friend’s little sister, keeping his feelings buried to protect the friendship that anchors him. Now Carys is back from college building a new life as an artist in Fidalgo Landing, and the unspoken tension between them becomes impossible to ignore—pushing Mateo to finally risk everything for the love he’s always wanted.

✨ **Genre:** Contemporary Romance
✨ **Tone:** Heartfelt, cozy-coastal, emotionally grounded, character-driven, and deliciously slow-burn swoony
✨ **Book Titles:** The Part You Left Behind; The Last Stop on the Route; A Recipe for Trust; The Space Between a Heartbeat

📦 **Perfect for authors who want a market-ready project where a boathouse found family becomes the anchor for homecoming love, second chances, and tides-that-bring-you-back romance.**

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

**SALES ARE FINAL!!**