Defy Fate

When the apocalypse struck, Ray Morley was brutally murdered and eaten by his wife's family. Only in his dying moments did he learn the cruel truth—his beloved son wasn't his own flesh and blood. He had been nothing more than a pathetic stand-in, a fool used and discarded. But fate gave him another chance. Reborn three months before the end of the world, Ray awakened to find himself in possession of an enormous, otherworldly storage space. This time, he wasted no time—he divorced his venomous wife, won a massive lottery prize, stormed into the stock market, and earned billions. He built fortified shelters and hoarded mountains of supplies. In this new life, he would make his ex-wife and her family pay—every last one of them. No more groveling. No more weakness. This time, Ray would rise above it all.

SOPHIA is the fictional story of a woman who, since childhood, suffers from being born into an inadequate and miserable family, but carries in her heart the hope that one day it will be possible to change the damned luck that fate has in store for her. At the age of thirteen she is raped and becomes haunted by men, yet she struggles to love them and is betrayed, completely revolting with the opposite sex and finding happiness with another woman, which lasts a few years, but soon he is disappointed and goes on in the dark, living several relationships, failing in all of them. Until she finally meets the one she marries and lives moments of full happiness, she becomes a mother, but destiny takes her daughter and her great love from her during a serious accident. He goes through moments of despair, darkness and anguish, until finally he meets Vera Lúcia, his soul mate, who similarly went through the same trials, but now they know each other and the friendship that arises from that moment gives an end to the suffering that it has been chasing ever since, allowing them to smile without fear of waking up from such a beautiful dream.

At a time when racism prevailed in a prejudiced society and the only future reserved for blacks was slavery, a dark-skinned girl receives the opportunity to be raised and educated by a Portuguese godmother. However, soon after such luck she is violated and forced to witness her parents being burned alive at the stake by a cruel slave. After growing up and receiving the same education given to whites, he becomes hostage to his master's sexual desires and to achieve the freedom he needs to be happy, he is subjected to the worst trials, tortures and humiliations that fate has in store for him. But his strength and courage allow him to endure everything with faith, determination and unshakable hope, until he knows true love.

At a time when the Northeastern population was punished by intense misery, due to the terrible drought that cracked their feet under the scorching sun that seemed to hate them, a family of retreatants was forced to get rid of everything, even their children, afterwards. to be cowardly expelled from their lands. And it is in this scenario of a people condemned to suffering that we will learn about the story of Mercedes, a woman who from an early age had to learn to live with the pitfalls of the miserable life that fate gave her. When she was a child, she was raped by pedophiles in a brothel of her aunt, Izabel, who was a juvenile. Ten years later she is unjustly accused and imprisoned, beaten, threatened with death and the victim of persecution. His biggest reason for living is the thirst for revenge that feeds his soul after so much suffering, but everything will change after he finally knows true love.