Lucy Chen, a once high spirited girl losing her spark to the demands of everyday life. Tim Bradford, a man deemed emotionless yet was yearning for someone to love him. They were strangers bound by a common thread. Will destiny bring them together, or push them further away. Only time would tell.

Aurora Horizon is a small town on the coastline of California. It's got gorgeous beaches, beautiful hikes with views meant to be photographed, and Aurielle Point, the gorgeous cliff named after the town founder's one true love. The current mayor-and most eligible bachelor-is Tim Bradford, who has lived here all his life, apart from when he served in the army. For years, Tim's friends have been trying to set him up with every new arrival to the town, but he has been focused completely on his job as the mayor and helping his mom at her market. Until Lucy Chen moves to Aurora Horizon, and his whole "I don't need love" act dies. Lucy Chen has lived in Los Angeles her whole life, working on her dreams of becoming a published author and opening a bookstore coffee shop. But she knows living in the city, it won't be nearly as easy to fulfill those dreams as in a small town. So she packs up her life and moves to Aurora Horizon, a small town on the coastline of California in the Imperial area. Lucy moves into the house in the town that she inherited a few years ago after her grandmother passed away and makes friends almost immediately when her car breaks down outside of the coffee shop, Horizon Brew and Co. Where she meets Angela Lopez and the mayor, Tim Bradford. Over time she works on her novel and makes more and more friends, who always make sure she knows Tim Bradford is single but she's too busy working on her novel and dream's to date... Or so she says. Because she slowly realises that she is in love with Tim, so much so that she realizes he's the main character in her story, just with a different name. The town is trying to set them up. Tim and Lucy keep denying it, but they both have feelings. Then Lucy's bookstore opening changes everything.

Lucy Chen has spent months rebuilding a quiet, safe life for herself and her 8-year-old son, hoping their past would stay far behind them. When their boys become best friends at school, she slowly grows close to Tim Bradford, another single parent who understands loss in his own way. Their connection feels easy and warm, giving Lucy a sense of hope she hasn't felt in years. But everything shatters when someone she thought she'd escaped returns, threatening the fragile peace she's created. As her world crumbles, Tim becomes the one steady place she can turn to, and together they begin to discover what it truly means to build a family.

Lucy was a general in the army but she wanted a change so she joined the LAPD. she doesn't want anyone to find out as she doesn't want to be treated differently to the other rookies. She knows captain Zoe Anderson because Zoe served under her before joining the LAPD and climbing through the ranks to captain. Lucy struggles at first from the change but gets through it very quickly. She needs to be careful because her name has been in the headlines after what she has done but luckily not her first name.This means that one slip up and everyone might find out.How long will it be before people find out? How long will it be before suspicions grow?

Tim Bradford runs LA's biggest real estate empire and after a brutal, public divorce, he's decided love isn't worth it. He doesn't do soft. He doesn't do coffee. Then he meets Lucy. Nineteen, broke, working the counter of a shop two blocks from his office, completely unbothered by his reputation. He starts showing up every morning for coffee he doesn't even like. She starts looking forward to seeing him more than she'll admit. An empire built on control. A girl who won't be handled like one of his deals. A seventeen-year gap neither of them can outrun.

⚠️ Trigger Warnings: Depression, eating disorder, self-harm, mental health struggles, and recovery. Everyone sees Lucy smiling. No one sees what she's hiding. Behind the badge, the jokes and the perfect smile is a battle she's fighting alone-until Tim starts noticing the cracks. Sometimes, the person who needs saving most is the one who keeps saying, "I'm fine." A slow-burn Chenford story full of hurt, comfort, healing, and romance.

Fifteen years after their hearts were broken, Detective Sergeant Lucy Chen transfers to Mid-Wilshire Division, seeking nothing more than a promotion and a fresh start. She never expected to come face-to-face with her past in the form of Patrol Sergeant Tim Bradford-the man she once loved, the man she had to let go, and the man who still holds a piece of her heart. As they navigate the delicate dance of pretending to be strangers in a workplace where everyone knows everyone's business, their history remains a carefully guarded secret. But secrets have a way of surfacing, especially when old feelings refuse to stay buried. With friends who are too perceptive for their own good and a past that neither has truly moved on from, Lucy and Tim find themselves facing a future they never thought possible. In a world where they once shared the spotlight as Canada's favorite on-screen couple, can they find their way back to each other in the unscripted reality of the LAPD? Or will the ghosts of their past and the secrets they keep, keep them apart forever?

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Tim Bradford and Lucy Chen were once Hollywoods favourite couple, known for their chemistry in their acting and modeling gigs in the early 2000s. Everyone loved them, no matter what Age or Gender, but they wanted different things. Tim wanted to take a step back from the limelight and settle down with Lucy, but she wanted to keep going for a few more years and eventually settle down. They constantly argued about what they wanted to do, so at the ages of 20 and 25, in 2010, they broke up. 8 years after their fateful breakup, Tim Bradford is working as a sergeant and the watch commander of Mid-Wilshire Police Station. He has completely set aside his past and only a select few in the station know about it, but one thing he can't set aside is Lucy Chen, the only girl he has ever truly loved. One thing Tim doesn't know is Lucy finally stepped down from her acting and modelling career a little over a year ago as she's wasn't getting as many jobs. As the true adrenaline junkie she is she tried to find a fast pace job that she can get with her qualifications, and she found her way to the police academy. She made two amazing friends and got assigned to North Hollywood Police Station. Shortly after becoming a P2 she transfered to Mid-Wilshire where she finds out the watch commander is her ex boyfriend that she will always be a little in love with. Tim Bradford. And what she definitely didn't expect is that they are both asked to go to Milan for a modelling reunion and they both agree without the other knowing.

Lucia "Lucy" Chen is second in line to the throne of Aurelia, a Mediterranean island between Sardinia and Crete, Capital: Valmeri. Her older brother, Archer "Archie" Chen, is set to become king with his queen corset and wife Rosaline "Rosa" Chen in 9 months when their grandma Harriet Chen, queen, steps down from the throne. Just behind Lucy in the line of succession is her younger sister Eloise "Ellie" Chen. She has accepted she is never going to be queen unless both her siblings step down. But she and Lucy know Archie will never step down...or so they think. Rosa, Ellie and Lucy all have strong sisterly bonds and often gang up on Archie. Lucy has never wanted to be queen and is currently living in Los Angeles, with her best friends, Nyla Harper, Tamara Collins, Celina Juarez and Celinas boyfriend; Miles Penn and of course Lucy's Ragdoll kitten; Sir whiskers along with her body guard, Wade Grey who is like a father to her, What Lucy doesn't know is Wade is going to retire and spend more time with his wife Luna. And that shes getting a new bodyguard. Tim Bradford was recently injured in the army and is now working for his best friend, Angela Lopez's, Security company which she runs with her husband, Wesley Evers. They live in Los Angeles and Tim recently got divorced after his wife Isabel got addicted to drugs, cheated on him and wound up pregnant. Tim's one rule in life is to never do anything addictive, as his father was an abusive alcoholic growing up and he's forever traumatised. He's never drank, smoked, done drugs or gambled. His rule has been especially upkeeped after his divorce, refusing to drink, even if he's sad, because he doesn't want to be like his father or end up like Isabel. One day Angela gives him a new assignment, its long term and might last until retirement, he can get fired in an instant and the client is 2nd in line to a European throne and her current body guard is retiring. The client? Princess Lucy Chen of Aurelia.