QUERYING | Upmarket women’s fiction with a central romantic arc (77k words)

Blurb

Beatrice Dorsey shelves books at the Meadow Park Library, avoids her cousin’s calls, and keeps a stash of gummy bears for emergencies. She also runs a spicy content site under the name TemptressB—but that’s none of her coworkers’ business. Or her family’s. Especially not Miles Noor, her steady and irritatingly attractive boss—the man who brought her burgers on the library floor and walked away from their almost-kiss with two words: “Not yet.”

She’s spent years keeping her worlds separate: the librarian with the squeaky cart, the woman in pink neon light who wants to be wanted. It’s worked fine. Mostly. Until a new subscriber, FHMan13, sends a message that threatens to crack it all open: “You were always bad ;)”

Characters

Bea Dorsey

• Secret life as TemptressB
• Candy fixation; specifically sour gummy bears
• Anxious-avoidant; sometimes tries her best
• Pink post-its as love language
• Pen cap thief
• Therapy? Who’s she?

Miles Noor

• Owns too many buttoned shirts
• Private hobby that ruddies his hands
• Drinks black tea with cinnamon and honey
• Works with books; never uses enough words