YOU FOOL! SHE'S THE DAYDREAMER. SHE CAN DREAM WITH HER EYES OPEN.
@CAUQHTZ
INFO — leo. nineteen. black. author. artist. one piece obsessed. blunt. idealist. romantic. selfish. eldest and middle child. listening to disney music, yb, and old rnb in that order. future nail technician. [N]sfw & suggestive content.
written by CAUQHTZ (she/her)
daydreamer
a million dreams are keeping me awake
every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my head.
PROJECT.HORSEMEN
pentalogy

GENRE: romance, action, mystery TAGS: dark romance, bodyguard romance, slow burn, unrequited romance, no happy ending, nsfw CURRENT DRAFT: outlining.
A five-book romance series set against the glamorous backdrop of the art world. The Rossi family, pillars of the industry, navigate love, ambition, and legacy. From art galleries and exhibitions to movie premieres and high-stakes heists of stolen family paintings, the series intertwines romance with the intrigue of the elite. Each book focuses on a different member of the family—including the patriarch himself—unveiling their personal struggles and desires as they face unexpected twists in their pursuit of love. The fifth and final book going in depth on how these characters meet and how that effects the first four books and their stories. Bringing the series full circle.

first installment
working titles: 'The Missing Ingredient', 'Our Recipe'
DRAFTING PROCESS: DRAFT ZERO
TAGS: fem dom, slow burn, mystery, secretive
PLOT: Caspian Rossi, the eldest son of the Rossi family and a literary pillar within the art industry, accuses Nero Du Pointe, a world-class chef and restaurant owner of not only being a liar but hitting on him at the annual gala.
Imagine his surprise when his father suggests he write an autobiography about the woman, he'd made such a terrible first impression on.
Despite this, Nero and Caspien end up sharing a dance and almost kiss that sends the media into cardiac arrest. One headline stuck out more than the rest.
"Spotted! Nero and Caspien on the dance floor. Could she be the mystery woman, Caspian's been searching for?"
Things get more complicated between the two when a box labeled, "4 truths and 1 lie" ends up on Caspian's doorstep.
Poor Cassie. . .Hasnt anyone ever told him? If something looks too good to be true...It probably is.
"I told you didn't I? My family comes before everything and anyone else, and that includes you."

second installment
working titles:
love me, love me not
, muse
DRAFTING PROCESS: OUTLINING
TAGS: slow burn, mystery, gay romance
PLOT: Eldric Rossi, the second-eldest son of the Rossi family, had a problem. . .He believed that what he says is law. He was not A main character. He was THE main character in a world full of extras.
He took his work seriously; earning the title CEO of a branch within in his family's company dedicated to the pillar he represented: anatomy. He was damn good at his work. The best, actually, which made casting him out next to impossible. Not to mention denying him of what he wanted. Like his father, "No" wasn't a part of his vocabulary.
Despite all of these things...he was bored. The sex, scandals, even bad break-ups. It was all the same.
Well that was before he met him. Christoph Du pointe. A simple man, he wasn't anything special. . .so why does he stir up so many unfamilar emotions within him?
Is it because he's completely uninterested in him? His glare when Eldric takes it too far? His colorful vocabulary? Was it the way he denied him? Maybe it was the way he used Eldric for his own interests. He couldn't decide.
Could this be what having a muse feels like?
"I'm not interested in entertaining your tantrums. If I have something you want, ask."

third installment
working titles:
DRAFTING PROCESS: OUTLINING
TAGS: slow burn, mystery,
dark romance, misunderstandings, stalking, gay romance
PLOT: Pietro Rossi, the youngest son of the Rossi family and the instrumental pillar within the art industry. Had a problem. A stalker issue, with notes, gifts, and creepy displays of love. His father, ever the paranoid man, assigned him bodyguards over the years.
Bodyguards he was forced to fire because of a number of reasons, they couldn't keep up with Pietro, they were traitors, or they slept with him. Or all of the above.
Lucian decided he'd had enough of his son's antics and assigned one of the best bodyguards, money could buy. Tobias Du Pointe, head of the Rossi Family security organization. And the owner of his own body guarding business.
Pietro had tried everything to shake Tobias, but to no decree. The man seems to be impossible to shake, let alone get fired. . . Wait fired? Now that's a idea.
"I took it as a sign. You were in love with me."

fourth installment
working titles:
right person, wrong time.
DRAFTING PROCESS: OUTLINING
TAGS: slow burn, mystery,
dark romance, betrayal, no happy endings
PLOT: Lucian Rossi. The head and father of the Rossi family and pillar of collections and auctions within the art industry.
He was a man of wealth in every way possible. He had a healthy family, that loved him. His riches went beyond money with his investments in different small artists and art related businesses.
His collection was unmatched with it's location completely unknown outside of him and his security team. Not even his kids knew where he hid them.
Not to mention being the king of auctioning and bidding. . .though despite his winning streak. He has lost in other ways.
His wife died during childbirth, the child not making it either. So during the annual gala he hosts, he decided to honor her by hanging a painting she'd gifted to him before her death.
Only to have it stolen. Never to be found again, no matter how hard he tried.
And so his paranoia began. . .convinced everyone was in on it. Though there was one family he was sure was responsible for the heist.The Jackal family. More specifically, the head's daughter. The woman who'd had the biggest crush on him since their grade school days.
Does Vivian prove her innocence? What is Lucian's best friend, Alaric Rousseau's role in all this? Do they get their happy ever after?
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. What's done in the dark, comes to the light. When will they learn?
"The irony is almost poetic. The man that never loses can't win over one woman."

fifth installment
working titles: the heist, the ending of the beginnings.
DRAFTING PROCESS: OUTLINING
TAGS: mystery, heists, new beginnings,
PLOT: The Du Pointe siblings undergo various trials in order to secure their dreams. Taking up. . .odd jobs from an organization they know next to nothing about.
Everything was going perfectly, the pay was good, and the jobs were exhilarating if nothing else. . . Well, that's what they believed, until one of them gets seriously hurt.
That's when they decide to take on one last job. A highly dangerous job that would not only make their financial dreams come true but be the cause to four huge effects letter on in the future.
"C'mon you guys. This could be huge for us. Think of what we could do with that much money. Let's do it and I promise you we're out for good."

