Rags-to-Riches Stories

A university graduate girl buys a ring, the ring is the mind/spirit of a person, who is related to a god. She agrees to do his bidding in return for pleasure. With her ability in assisting the destroyer of evil she is transformed into wealth. This is a book of fiction, It does contain some scene that are current. This is just for setting and events, as far as the writer knows, this did not occur, I think... Notes: Shiva is the "destroyer of evil and the transformer"

How Carol and Barry became lovers from their competitive natures and producing the heir to the fortunes.

An educated orphan willing to do any job for an income. She makes the right connections.

It is 1948 and London is recovering from almost a decade of war and only three years of recovery and rebuilding both the physical destruction and restoring society with new-found optimism for a bright new future. Gertie is 17 , nearly 18 and a bright and pretty hat check girl looking after theatregoers’ hats and coats in a lively West End Theatre. One evening, while everyone is watching the third act, a drunken patron attacks her and a dashing captain rescues her … changing her life forever.

A Story in the Life in the Suburbs Universe
A teen boy is taken out to die during a storm, but things don't go as planned. He and his life are very dramatically changed. He sets himself up as modern patriarch with a harem of concubines. He also gets his revenge on his enemies. Some activities relate to his school, home, and work place. Some graphic sex scenes involving heterosexual and homosexual activities are present, and there are some religious discussions. Set in Australia. Sex scenes with characters between 16 and 18 years of age.

Life changing story about Dan going from a virgin nerd to a powerful business person.

A Story in the Naked In School Universe
"Freedom" is a romantic coming-of-age story which is set in the “Naked in School” universe. A young teen, emotionally abandoned by her father and harassed by the father’s girlfriend, tries to cope with her life while living essentially on her own. On the day she begins attending her first year in high school, she’s forced to face the school’s new nudity program while trying to cope with memories of her past, the problems of her nonexistent family life and her burgeoning adolescence. Illustrated.

A Time Scope Story (2)
Jeb and Alicia met in Chicago. It was a whirlwind romance that started one morning and ended the same day with them deciding to get married. Two days later, they and the Time Scope Jeb had inherited returned to Seattle. They very quickly came to realize that the Time Scope was far more than what Granddad had explained in his letter. They quickly became the center of an intergalactic drama, which reshaped their lives and gave them an unexpected future.

I'm not sure if you would call this a "Rags To Riches" story, depends on how you look at it. But, I did try to make it that way.

Things were a lot different then.