Rags-to-Riches Stories

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 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"

A Time Scope Story
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.

Sterling City, 1872. Caleb Walker has spent his whole life working hard and getting nowhere. He hauls oranges through the snow, dodges the marshal's inspectors, and comes home each night to a tiny rented room, a loyal wife who deserves better, and a daughter who has stopped asking for toys. Then one rainy night, golden script appears before his eyes. The Golden Ledger gives him one roll of the dice each day, and whatever he earns can come back doubled, or even ten times over...

A novel-length do-over about a man born in 1955: he lived until 2038. A retired Buddhist monk befriended Mason and caused strange things to happen. Mace died normally, only to wake up at age 13 with all of his old memories. But he's not living his life over. Everything is really different. He's on a parallel planet with a completely different history and bizarre morals. It is the polar opposite of feminism. Succinctly stated: it's a fun romp. 33 chapters. Slow start.

Things were a lot different then.

A young man becomes the friend of an old man sitting on a bench in the park who he sees when he jogs past every day. The old man had a hidden life and it is only discovered after he passes away leaving the young man to mourn his passing. [No sex.]

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.

Fourteen-year-old Paulo, already pulling tricks from older men and being covered by his mother's boyfriend, Jorge, in Malaga, Spain, takes off on his own for an adventure of his own choosing. He falls in with filmmaker Sergio, who produces films for a specialized audience.