The Pumpkin Spice Café: A brand new grumpy/sunshine cozy romantic mystery to curl up with this Fall (Dream Harbor, Book 1) 📖

The Pumpkin Spice Café: A brand new grumpy/sunshine cozy romantic mystery to curl up with this Fall (Dream Harbor, Book 1)

Laurie Gilmore
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contemporary fiction small-town romance past tense third limited POV ~275 pp

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heartwarming cozy romantic

A hopeful contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Ends with catharsis. Contains notable romance, humor, sexual content.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 65
sparsedense
Pacing 70
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 75
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 20
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 70
externalintrospective
Ending 95
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 40
intimateepic

Content

Violence 10%
noneextreme
Sexual content 90%
noneexplicit
Humor 80%
seriouscomedic
Romance 95%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count68,787
Page count~275 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited