Thriller: Femme Fatale - Shadow of Desire

Shadow of Desire: A Lethal Affair Where Trust is the Deadliest Game

Story Dossier + Outline

Premise:

When corporate climber Olivia Kane seduces her boss to seize his fortune, a staged extreme sports accident turns deadly, forcing her to ensnare a dependent witness in her web of lies before the truth unravels her empire.

✨ Genre: Femme Fatale Thriller

✨ Tropes/Themes: Affair initiated to access financial control, Murder disguised as consensual risk-taking, Witness coerced through emotional dependency, Seductive manipulation, Corporate betrayal, Moral ambiguity, Power imbalance in relationships, Unreliable memory

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

✨ Vibe: Dark and suspenseful with high moral ambiguity, blending erotic tension with psychological unease; features open-door heat with 3-5 explicit scenes amid themes of manipulation and deception; edges into gritty corporate intrigue without excessive gore.

✨ 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.