Overtime: Complete Sports Romance Story Bible

Part of Home Ice. Book 1 of the sports romance series. Read the full series →

She trusted a man once and the whole league watched it cost her. Now the only player who takes her seriously is the one man she can never be caught wanting.

The Premise

The league’s first female general manager fake-dates her grumpy veteran star to bury a tabloid scandal, on paper, time-boxed to the end of the playoffs. The trouble is the lie turns into the one real thing she has, and a relationship between front-office and player is a career-ending ethics violation. When the bitter predecessor she replaced weaponizes their arrangement into a formal referral, she has to choose between the job she clawed back and the one person who ever saw her without the armor.

Why This One Stands Out

This is not another rink-side puck bunny or coach’s-daughter setup. The heroine runs the franchise, which flips the usual power dynamic on its head: she holds institutional authority over the man she’s falling for, inside a fishbowl where genuine feeling and professional misconduct look identical from the outside. The fresh angle (a female sports executive in a man’s world) sits squarely inside the fake-dating and grumpy/sunshine catnip readers are one-clicking right now, while the forbidden-workplace ethics line gives the whole book a real, enforceable detonator instead of a contrived misunderstanding.

What’s Inside

• A complete Story Bible: premise, full character psychology for every lead and the antagonist (each with an in-voice writing sample and a signature behavioral tell), supporting cast with locked signatures, the world and its pressures, the emotional engine, and a heat map.
• A complete chapter-by-chapter outline with scene beats and an ending hook on every chapter.
• Book-specific voice and style notes (point of view, signature techniques, dialogue rules, and the book’s word texture).
• A marketing kit: blurb, taglines, pitch, social and newsletter hooks, ad copy, retail categories and keywords, comps, content notes, launch ideas, and a reader magnet concept for newsletter list-building.
• A cover art brief: three cover concepts in the current bestseller direction, with a ready-to-use art description and back-cover layout.
• A Start Here guide: how to write from the bible, what is safe to change, and the license in plain language.
• A finished cover image in JPEG format, with no author name.
• A Series Roadmap (PDF + DOCX): the series arc, recurring cast, and open threads, so you can keep writing the series.
• A World Fact Sheet: the pro hockey front-office ethics rules and institutional pressure this story runs on, so you’re not stopping to invent details mid-draft.
• Branded PDF and editable DOCX of the full bundle.

Market Value Breakdown

A standard exclusive premade book cover alone (sold once and retired) typically sells for $65 to $150 or more across cover shops. Bundling a complete chapter-by-chapter story architecture, deep character psychology, ready-to-paste marketing copy, live market research, a series roadmap, and specialized world-building material with that same exclusive cover turns this into an entire turnkey publishing kit, not just an outline.

Built Like a Bestseller

• Built on fresh market data. Built on current weekly research of the top-selling books on Amazon in its genre, so it is aimed at what readers are buying right now, not a guess.
• A fresh twist, not a me-too. A deliberate angle that sidesteps the most crowded version of the lane while still fitting squarely in it, so the book stands out without fighting the heaviest competition.
• Tropes chosen on purpose. The trope stack is selected from that market data and the story’s core concept together, the proven reader catnip for this genre, fitted to this exact premise.
• Proven structure and pacing. A professional beat structure with turning points placed at the page-percentages where they hit hardest, so the middle never sags.
• No cardboard characters. Every lead and the antagonist gets a defined personality type, a wound, the mask that hides it, a stress quirk, a signature tell, and a short in-voice writing sample, distinct and consistent from chapter one.
• An emotional payoff that lands. The leads’ wounds lock together like a key, each one’s love language built as the precise cure for the other’s wound. Devotion moments planted mid-book all reframe at the climax, and the dark moment is one no single conversation can undo. The heat dials from sweet to steamy with no two intimate scenes alike.
• A chapter-hook engine. Every chapter ends on a forward pull, the structural reason readers binge a book in one sitting.

Specs at a Glance

Genre: Sports Romance · Heat: 4 of 5 (explicit, on-page) · Book 1 of Home Ice · ~28 chapters · Formats: PDF, DOCX, JPEG cover

Who This Is For

• Romance authors who want to write a market-ready hockey romance fast, without sacrificing structure.
• The market-minded writer who wants a proven-demand hook (fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, a female GM in a man’s world), not a me-too rink romance.
• The heart buyer who wants the full romance payoff: a slow burn that pays off, a black moment that actually breaks your heart, and an HEA that earns itself.

Your Exclusive License

Exclusive, single author. Sold once, then retired from the shop forever. You get sole rights to write and publish a novel and series from this blueprint, under your own name, no attribution, all proceeds yours. You simply may not resell the blueprint itself. No one else will ever write from this bible.

The Architecture of Legend. We Build the Foundation. You Tell the Story.