Chika Belonwu

Title: The Billionaire Boss' Dilemma Genre: Romance Trope: Forbidden Romance Theme: Love, Family, Social status, and Arranged marriage. Setting: Modern-day city, 21st century Greece. Blurb: Working for Acheron Petrakos, the billionaire CEO of The Petrakos, a multinational construction company with its base in Greece, Althea sought to work quietly and make enough money to take her parents out of the lower parts of Athens. A mandatory end of the year's party puts Althea on the radar of the big boss, who sought her out like an apex predator. Althea's indifference to his personality and charms make Acheron all the more interested in her. Eventually making her his, Acheron presents her to his parents, but theirs was a relationship that seemed not to be. For oppositions came from both parents' sides. Acheron's parents wanted a suitable bride in the person of Lucia, daughter of a hotel magnate, for their son, while Althea's mother did not want her daughter to go through the same experience she did 25 years ago. However, Lucia's accident in the course of her executing her plan to make Acheron hers, opens up a secret surrounding Althea's birth and this further makes the waters murkier. Will the love that has begun to blossom between Althea and Acheron hold strong in the face of this tempest? Characterization Althea Evans (FL): a young lady in her mid-20s, 5 feet 5 inches tall with dark, long hair. Eyes like the sky and lips that made up a man's fantasy. She is opened up to challenges both at work and in her heart. But a secret, that started 25 years ago throws her in a maze. Acheron Petrakos (ML): A six foot tall Greek Adonis, in his mid-30s. Dark penetrating eyes, defined nose, sculpted lips and a chiseled jaw. He is the billionaire CEO of The Petrakos, a multinational construction company. To become chairman, he must marry a suitable woman. He is to come to the place where he has to choose between love and duty. Lucia Xanthes: A blonde beauty of 25. Her presence presents an obstacle to the love that has begun to blossom between Acheron and Althea. Amber Evans: Mother to Althea. She is petite and peace loving but she harbours a secret that is capable of rocking her daughter's life. Michael Evans: Althea's step-father. He stepped in to take care of Amber and Althea, but time will tell if he is genuine or not. Francis Xanthes: Lucia's father. Chairman of Ambrosia Hotels, famed for being founded on the basis of love and named after his first love. Portia Petrakos: Acheron's mother. Her experience colours her judgment. Alexander Petrakos: Acheron's father. Founder and chairman of The Petrakos. PLOT EXPOSITION: Althea is a young girl from the other side of the world. A world different from that of Acheron's, billionaire CEO of The Petrakos. Both worlds collide when Acheron sees her at the mandatory end of the year party. She piques his interest with her refusal and indifference to his advances and charms. Althea however, can only refuse and remain indifferent for a matter of time, as her heart begins to beat for Acheron. INCITING INCIDENT: Acheron is overjoyed to know that Althea has fallen for him but it seemed short-lived. His parents were against it. Another woman is introduced to him as suitable for him. RAISING ACTION: Acheron's mind however is made up. He loves Althea and tells his parents so. Finding out that Althea works for her son, Portia seeks to do what every mother would do. Pay Althea to leave him. She would not see her son married to a 'gold digger', she thought. CLIMAX: Althea on the other hand, tells her mother of Acheron and her mother begs her to leave and forget him. Her mother had had a terrible experience, where she was not accepted by the parents of Althea's biological father due to her social status, hence she did not want her daughter going through the same thing. Althea seeks ways to convince her mother, while trying to keep their home. For some reason, problems grows as Acheron and Althea’s love gets shaken by the ones they love and their past. Lucia proves to be the sister to the fallen angel. She wants Acheron at all cost and even devises a plan to make him hers. DENOUEMENT: Lucia meets with an accident and this opens up a secret that has been kept for 25 years, by lovers turned haters. One driven mad by power,the other burnt by her belief in love. However, when this secret is brought to light, on the day of Acheron and Althea’s wedding, Amber decides to risky move to make sure Acheron never hurts her daughter,by kidnapping Althea on her way to her wedding. „To err is human, to forgive is divine. Is this her mothers’ love?“. A series of surprising events never ends in these young couples life. Would they ever have their happy ever after?