Thriller: Femme Fatale - Veiled Ambition
Veiled Ambition: Seduction's Price in a World of Hidden Fortunes
Story Dossier + Outline
Premise:
Art gallery owner Sophia Reed ensnares a reclusive millionaire in an affair to hijack his estate, staging his death as a consensual erotic asphyxiation gone wrong, only to blackmail his dependent niece who saw too much into silence.
✨ Genre: Femme Fatale Thriller
✨ Tropes/Themes: Affair initiated to access financial control, Murder disguised as consensual risk-taking, Witness coerced through emotional dependency, Inheritance schemes, Artistic deception, Identity fluidity, Forbidden passion, Psychological unraveling
✨ POV & Structure: 1st Person, Past Tense, Single POV from the unreliable narrator Femme Fatale, structured in a 5-Act narrative arc
✨ Vibe: Tense and shadowy with a layer of artistic elegance, mixing erotic allure with creeping dread; includes open-door heat through 3-5 explicit scenes that heighten the psychological thriller elements; leans into morally grey decisions with a vibe of sophisticated danger.
✨ 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.