# Free example plans

Illustrative alternatives for one sample brief: **Ana, Edinburgh, historical mystery, an intimate but suspenseful tone, one novella.** Characters, incidents and documents below are invented. These are concept examples, not researched historical accounts; period-specific details would be sourced and checked before a paid book is created.

## 1. The Address That Wasn't There

Ana restores damaged correspondence. A customer pays her to reconstruct a letter to a sister, then disappears. The letter contains an address that everyone insists never existed. Ana's investigation unfolds through conflicting accounts of a single street, and her own habit of choosing documentary certainty over living people becomes a liability.

The dramatic centre is a missing person and a strained friendship. A mostly linear investigation gradually overturns the apparent authority of the surviving records. Ana must decide whether exposing the truth would endanger the person she is trying to find. Suggested length: 20,000–25,000 words. The chapters would follow meaningful changes in testimony and trust.

## 2. The Last Honest Minute

Ana is hired to take minutes at a private society's emergency meeting. A routine vote turns into an accusation against its most respected member. By morning, the accuser has disappeared and Ana's handwritten account contradicts the version the society intends to publish. She has one day to reconstruct the dinner before her notebook is surrendered.

The structure moves between the meeting and the following day's interviews. The pressure comes from a confined group whose members need one another's lies to survive. Ana gains leverage by noticing what people omit rather than by finding a decisive secret document. The ending would expose a negotiated concealment and force Ana to accept a personal consequence. Suggested length: 22,000–30,000 words.

## 3. The Borrowed Winter

Ana and an estranged relative inherit a small boarding house. A resident claims that another tenant has been impersonating someone from the family's past. Ana initially investigates to protect the sale of the property, then finds that the resident's accusation may be an attempt to prevent an injustice rather than uncover a crime.

This is a dual-perspective mystery about inheritance, memory and whose testimony gets believed. The house's practical problems and its residents' competing needs shape the investigation. Ana must act before she can be certain, and resolving the case changes her relationship with her relative instead of restoring an uncomplicated status quo. Suggested length: 25,000–35,000 words.

These choices deliberately differ in investigative method, structure, social setting, relationship arc and resolution. The final plan would provide a complete causal plot and ending, visibly separate from the spoiler-light customer summary. None inherits a fixed chapter count or Benjamin's cover style.