Thriller: Femme Fatale - Fatal Entanglement

Fatal Entanglement: Where Love Becomes a Weapon of Wealth

Story Dossier + Outline

Premise:

In a quiet town, real estate agent Isabella Cole starts an affair with a land baron to siphon his holdings, faking his death as a consensual off-road racing mishap, then trapping his dependent assistant in a cycle of emotional manipulation to keep the secret buried.

✨ Genre: Femme Fatale Thriller

✨ Tropes/Themes: Affair initiated to access financial control, Murder disguised as consensual risk-taking, Witness coerced through emotional dependency, Small-town secrets, Vengeance motifs, Twisted loyalty, Erotic danger, Memory distortion

✨ POV & Structure: 1st Person, Past Tense, Single POV from the unreliable narrator Femme Fatale, structured in a 5-Act narrative arc

✨ Vibe: Claustrophobic and intense, evoking rural isolation with sharp psychological edges; open-door heat in 3-5 explicit scenes amplifies the thriller's intimate betrayals; maintains a dark, gritty tone with morally ambiguous choices and subtle violence.

✨ Book Size: Novel (60,000-100,000 words)

✨ Chapter Count: 40 Chapters

✨ Word Count: target 1800-2300 per chapter

✨ Heat Level: Open-door (3-5 explicit intimate scenes)

What you get:

✅ Complete Premise with core concepts and Narrative Physics Architecture

✅ Complete Story Dossier — including detailed characters, relationship arcs, locations and objects, world rules and histories, multiple subplots, and market researched genre and style guides.

✅ A detailed 40 chapter outline.