Rags-to-Riches Stories

Zeke Clay receives a mysterious letter when he is down on his luck. He has lost everything but stands to inherit a fortune. If he agrees to a few simple tasks: Solve some clues, break a family curse, and restore true love. What does he know about any of that? Why are their ghosts running around telling him what to do? And why is his three-year-old tattoo suddenly bleeding?

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.

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.

What if you are to inherit a business empire on the death of its surviving elderly founder and learn its startup capital was from Nazi war loot? Then you learn the empire's founders obtained that loot by stealing it from the Nazi Party and they kept a portion of what they stole for themselves to atone for the Nazi Party stealing their families' businesses and executing their families. That is Paul Adler's dilemma.

At the end of her rope, a desperate mother who has just been evicted from the low rent duplex where she lives with her fourteen-year-old daughter and is about to lose her job is offered what would normally be an unacceptable alternative. If she agrees to become his sex slave he will take her in and help her put her life back in order. He promises not to rape her daughter but admits he intends to seduce her. That being the only option open to her she accepts his offer. / (Reviews)

A very lucky unlucky pilot finds his way into fortune from the wreckage of his downed aircraft. After returning to the civilized world from his nightmare away from home, his good fortune continues, and continues. Some want to stop him, and some want to seek revenge on his friends, but his good fortune holds. Follow Charlie in his adventures as he turns a valley into paradise and makes it his home.

When the kings and lords of the World become corrupt and vile, when the cries of the desperate and the destitute become too loud to bear, when the world sings out for a savior, the Sun chooses for himself a hero to strike down the wicked and set the World right: The Unconquered. Blessed with unimaginable power, the Unconquered is granted too a sacred marriage to five Lunar wives - each as lovely and powerful as the last, each devoted to him. Hark! The Cycle of the 11th Unconquered begins! / (Reviews)

In a world where mana, faith, and ancient laws shape reality, a boy named Rowan awakens as something never meant to exist—a Creation Dragon. When the people chant the name The Sanctum of the Twelve Dragons, faith returns, dragons stir, and the world begins to change. Hidden behind unbreakable walls, Rowan builds a kingdom while gods watch closely, failure means annihilation, and the universe waits to see whether he will become its salvation… or its end.

The story follows James Smith, a man who dies and finds himself in a surreal afterlife courtroom, where his life is judged as "zero sum"—neither good nor evil, just utterly average. Dissatisfied with being consigned to eternal mediocrity, he manipulates the cosmic bureaucracy into granting him a second chance in a new world, where he is reincarnated as a child with his memories intact and perks... - edited by my lovely Steven.