Second Chance Romance lane score: opportunity 53/100 (rank 23 of 51), greenlight band Promising, 1,410 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.
| Component | Percentile in this lane |
|---|---|
| Reader demand | 22nd |
| Revenue | 50th |
| Scarcity (how little is published against that demand) | 76th |
| Momentum | 90th |
Counted across 2,050 titles in this lane — 60% sit at steamy or hotter.
| Heat level | Share of the lane |
|---|---|
| sweet | 40% |
| spicy | 28% |
| steamy | 25% |
| dark | 4% |
| explicit | 3% |
| Median Kindle length | 264 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 267 pages |
| Recent releases | 157 pages |
| Novella-length share, recent | 50% |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
Counted — not estimated — from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows: 4,244,175 Goodreads reviews, 3,176,670 shelf signals, 2,585,597 parsed reader demand signals and 134,408 BookTok videos, across 114,100 trope-tagged titles and 5,093 distinct tropes in 145 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.
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