Naya Chen isn’t looking to be noticed. She’s a final year Computer Science student at NYU with a 3.6 GPA, a messy spreadsheet of job rejections, and one goal: get experience, graduate, and go home. She doesn’t do office politics. She doesn’t do small talk. She codes, drinks iced tea, and keeps her head down.So when Riax Lamps Tech, the billion dollar company run by 28 year old CEO Zyane Lamps, offers her a 3 month engineering internship, she treats it like any other job. Show up. Do the work. Leave.Zyane Duah built his company from a dorm room. He runs on black coffee, 16 hour days, and zero distractions. He’s used to people trying to impress him. He’s not used to the intern in a hoodie who fixes the bug that crashes payments in 4 regions… and then goes home without asking for anything.The problem? She’s not supposed to be interesting to him. And he’s not supposed to notice the only person in the building who isn’t trying to.What starts as a power gap CEO and intern turns into late nights, shared takeout, and conversations no one else gets to hear. He’s grumpy. She’s sunshine in a quiet way. He falls first. She’s trying not to fall at all.But in a company where everyone watches, an office romance could cost her the job she fought for. And for him, letting someone in means risking the one thing he’s never lost control of: himself.*LEGENDARY LOVERS* is a slow-burn office romance about two people who weren’t looking for each other. About clean code and messier feelings. About choosing someone when you have everything to lose.

Pearl Sharma lost her job, her savings, and almost her hope the day Cole Holdings bought out Varex and fired half the company by email. Now she’s working double shifts at a café in London to cover her mom’s hospital bills, and the severance she’s owed still hasn’t come through. She’s not looking for a second chance. She’s looking for survival. Xander Cole isn’t looking for love. He’s looking for damage control. Cold, calculated, and used to getting what he wants, Xander is the billionaire CEO who tore Pearl’s world apart. But when his family’s high-profile wedding in NYC threatens to drag his private life into the spotlight, he needs one thing he can’t buy with money: someone real. Someone who isn’t afraid of him. Someone like Pearl. His offer is simple. Outrageous. 50,000 cedis. Six weeks. Be his fake girlfriend. Go to the dinners. Smile for the cameras. Pretend you don’t hate me. Then walk away. Pearl says no. Then her mom gets worse. Then the bills pile up. Then she says yes. What starts as a contract quickly turns messy. Late night strategy sessions turn into real conversations. Boardroom tension turns into charged glances. And the man who fired 200 people with one email starts looking at Pearl like she’s the only person in the room who sees him. But fake relationships have rules. No kissing. No feelings. No falling. The problem? Neither Pearl nor Xander are very good at following rules. The Deal is a slow burn, enemies to lovers romance about pride, power, and the dangerous line between pretending and wanting. Set between i and , it’s about two people who were never supposed to need each other and the deal that changes everything.