JK-Eggett
Daring and captivating.
A sci-fi romantic comedy about a divorced, middle aged businessman who wakes up as a young woman and slowly falls in love again.
Billionaire businessman Emerson Schmucker, with the help of his ex wife, switches bodies with a young, healthy clone of himself to escape death. However, there is a catch. Schmucker's new cloned self is female! Although she is grateful to have a second chance at life, Schmucker experiences the challenges of adjusting to the new reality of womanhood.
Claire is Emerson Schmucker's ex wife. After their divorce, in a rare act of selfless compassion, Emerson uses his vast wealth and resources to cure her, saving her from cancer, and from disfigurement. Claire, a medical scientist, later returns the favor, saving her ex husband, Emerson, using cloning technology. Although Claire, a Democrat, and Emerson, a Republican, often don't get along personally, they keep in touch. It is likely that, despite being divorced, Claire and Emerson still have feelings for each other, if only platonic.
Roy is Emerson's best friend. The two served in the military on the battleground of Iraq in 2003. After military life, Emerson Schmucker, chairman of his lucrative Execu-Globe corporation, hired Roy as a top employee. Upon the awakening of Miss Schmucker, Roy quickly becomes physically infatuated with Schmucker's new cloned female self, but realizes that such feelings can never be reciprocated. Roy sometimes calls Emerson by the nickname "Emer."
John Telbern was a loyal bodyguard and watchdog for the late Businessman Emerson Schmucker. John will become the protector for new Execu-Globe chairwoman, Miss Emerson Schmucker, who is presumed to be Mr. Schmucker's daughter.
Lester Darrack, a mentor of the late Mr. Schmucker, is a powerful local celebrity of the corporate underworld. Though elderly, he frequently dates women many decades younger than himself.
Schmucker's Fortune is entirely the work of fiction.