INDULGENT

novels that will most likely not see the light of day for one reason or another

LAKE ACTUALLY

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

- 4 novels & 1 novella in a trench coat

- LOVE ACTUALLY but not at Christmas and set at a lake

- best friend group from childhood coming together at the lake they spent every summer at

- sex bets

- fake dating

- childhood friends-to-friends-with-benefits-to-I love you

- gold rush x tis the damn season vibes

- drunk sex

- skinny dipping in the winter

- restoration of hearts and cottages

- shy boy x fuck boy

- periodic waxings about grief and nostalgia

- found family

- copious amounts of nicknames

- migraine rep

- everyone is queer

*drafting (100k)

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

- light magic system in modern world

- subtle, secret, soft, sapphic

- friendship & found family

- barista who puts magic in coffee

- love poems as fliting

- single mom gardener

- perfume aphrodisacs

- low light and laughter

- bonfires on the beach

- a sparkling carnival

- intimate look at love & grief

*brainstorming

ROMANTIC THRILLER

- based off the plot of the Lifetime Original Movie Angels Fall. Which is an adaptation of Nora Roberts' Angels Fall.

- running from the past

- murder but no evidence

- small and family-like town

- crime writer x psychology student

- paranoia & psychological thriller elements

- metaphorical haunting

- slow burn

*drafting