Rags-to-Riches Stories

When Amara's mother dies, she is pulled from her quiet village and thrown into the dazzling, dangerous world of her wealthy Aunty Chidinma's Lagos mansion. Aunty Chidinma is generous, beautiful, and relentless. Her love is suffocating, her touch possessive. Trapped in a golden cage, Amara discovers a terrible secret: her mother sacrificed everything to protect her. Now Amara must decide if she wants Aunty's love — or her freedom.

Joe assists some farm animals back inside a property and is rewarded for his efforts 5 years later. He and his girlfriend assists in putting away a bad person during the year of the story.

It begins on a hot street with a sausage stall and a boy nobody wanted. Liu Xuan is eighteen, bruised, and already half-broken by a bully who only hits him. Then a woman steps into his life like smoke and silk—Liu Ruyan, the ice-queen CEO everyone fears, and the mother who has been searching for him since the day he was stolen from her arms. She does not only take him home. She feeds him, dresses him, and opens a private world of money, systems, and hunger. What should have been a reunion bec

Ralph is anxious to leave his old life behind. He ventures up to Oregon to face a whole new set of challenges.

Alex Armstrong is a skinny boy born into a wildly progressive family at the end of his rope. The world hates him, and he sees no way forward. Then he is hit by lightning, and thus begins his journey of revenge and learning what lies behind the curtain.

A successful businessman on his way home late one evening encounters a desperate young couple who have suffered an incredible run of bad luck. They ask him for help. He agrees to help them, but his conditions are a bit shocking. It's a mild tale by my standards, rambling and more long winded than usual. Like most of my stories there's a lot of Pollyanna in it.

James III established a racehorse breeding operation in Kentucky. He did well before family problems. Then, he had issues with his son, James the Fourth, who wouldn’t follow in his footsteps. The Fourth had a son, James the Fifth, who made the Military his career. When the Fifth’s career ended, James the Third gifted me, the oldest known grandson, 80% of the horse farm to James the Fifth. The remaining 20% of the farm went to Molly, possibly a child of James the Fourth.

About to graduate high school, Connie is overlooked because of her unfashionable dress and ugly coke-bottle glasses. Then she's introduced to her second cousin, who sees "her" and they bond courtesy of the two aunts who put them together, and provide them with a safe space to canoodle. And then Connie is overwhelmed when she discovers Jim's attribute. You're a princess first, and then you become a queen. A compact little tale of young love.

Being rich can be a pain, He went away for a holiday alone, basically running away and finds a soul mate