Drifting Through the Decade
By @john1208
On her deathbed from severe pneumonia in 1979, Junia Hesketh overhears a tragic tale of a woman who works herself to the bone for an ungrateful family, only to die penniless. Waking with a start, Junia is convinced she has been granted a prophetic vision of her own life. Her solution? Take her little brother, abandon her toxic relatives, and absolutely refuse to work hard ever again. She pours her meager savings into a barren, rocky bluff at the edge of Oakhaven - the perfect, isolated spot to set up a hammock and sleep through the impending drama of the 1980s. While her ambitious cousin Marnie exhausts herself trying to conquer the town's social ladder, Junia fiercely protects her peace, napping her days away. She even enters a marriage of convenience with Hollis, a brooding, quiet drifter who offers to repair her shack. But Junia's 'prophecy' was just a hospital radio broadcast, and she completely misunderstood the rules of her reality. Her worthless cliff is actually sitting on a geological goldmine, and her quiet husband is a covert logistics tycoon who is more than happy to fund her lifelong nap. Will Junia ever realize she didn't cheat fate, but simply stumbled into unconditional love?
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The Tycoon's Sensory Delivery: My Driver Owns the Supply Chain
By @john1208
Loredana Cenzerro is the brilliant black sheep of Vellor’s most cutthroat luxury-biotech dynasty. Refusing to weaponize her chemistry skills for her family’s manipulative enterprises, she runs a struggling indie neuro-fragrance boutique. Her most loyal employee is Tavish, a stubbornly quiet delivery driver who works for minimum wage and constantly endures the mockery of Loredana’s wealthy suitors. But Loredana doesn’t know that Tavish is secretly the vanished apex-shareholder of the Morvath Trust, the monolithic supply empire her family desperately relies upon. Diagnosed with a psychosomatic neural block that erased his senses of taste and smell, Tavish abandoned high society in a depressive spiral - until he accidentally inhaled one of Loredana's failed prototype perfumes during a delivery and felt something for the first time in years. Now, he acts as her humble courier to stay close to the only scents that penetrate his numbness. When the Cenzerro patriarch orchestrates a hostile embargo to force Loredana back into the fold, he unknowingly threatens the trillionaire’s only source of sensation. Will Loredana’s humble driver merely deliver her packages, or will he deliver the absolute financial annihilation of her bloodline?
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The Trillionaire's Midnight Delivery
By @john1208
Karys Fend, the brilliant but alienated heiress of the Fend Corporation, suffers from severe stress-induced anorexia due to her family’s ruthless expectations. The only food she can keep down is the simple, rustic midnight takeout delivered by Orik, a deadpan courier for a run-down ghost kitchen. To Karys’s elitist family, Orik is nothing but a 'slop-peddler' ripe for cruel mockery whenever he tracks mud into their penthouses. They have no idea that Orik is actually the vanished Sovereign of the Zarris Syndicate - the anonymous tycoon who secretly owns the city’s entire debt and real estate grid. Orik retired to find peace in cooking, but Karys’s fierce defense of him against her own abusive relatives slowly melts his cynical heart. When the Fend patriarch attempts to force Karys into a predatory marriage by hosting a lavish gala to impress the mysterious Zarris Sovereign, they make the fatal mistake of throwing Orik’s delivery moped into the fountain. As Karys stands alone against her family's cruelty, will Orik finally take off his delivery helmet, claim the VIP throne, and instantly foreclose on the very ballroom they are standing in?
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