The Salt Verdict — Premade Novel Outline & Codex

A finished novel, plotted from first page to last. Yours alone.

The Salt Verdict is a complete 24-chapter outline for a romantasy novel, written once and sold once. It is not a template and not a prompt pack — it is a working structure, built on the Save the Cat spine, with every beat mapped to a chapter and every chapter carrying its own turn.

THE STORY

Isavel Rourke, the last tide-binder of a drowned harbor city, is chained by law to Corin Halbrand — the imperial magistrate whose signed order flooded her district and killed four hundred and nine people. The ruin that ate her home can only be closed by two bound casters, and their binding is spelled to kill whichever one is still standing when the other dies.

She wants him dead for what he signed. She needs him alive to seal the breach before the spring tide takes a hundred thousand more.

WHAT YOU GET

· outline.pdf — 24 chapters. Each with a synopsis of what happens, what

the chapter does for the novel that no other chapter does, and how the

situation differs at the end from the start.

· codex-worldbuilding.pdf — the reference you keep open while drafting:

9 characters with wound, want, and verbal habit; places with sensory

anchors; factions; the rules of the world and what they cost; a 40-term

glossary; the timeline; and 31 continuity rules you must not contradict.

· The same two documents as plain Markdown, with no branding on them at

all — the editable source, so you can rename, cut, expand or fold it

into a document of your own.

· license.pdf — your license, including the model license you would grant

if you resell.

THE LICENCE

Write, publish and sell any number of novels set in this material, in any language and any medium, and keep everything you earn. Modify it freely. Sell or license it on to other writers — the model license is included. Credit is welcome and never required.

ONE OF ONE

This outline is sold to a single buyer. On the day it sells, we withdraw it, and it will not be listed, reissued, or sold again. We guarantee we have not sold it to anyone else and never will; after that, the exclusivity is yours to keep or to spend.

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