The Unexpected Journey is the story of a young woman who sets out on a mission and finds a surprising, royal, detour. I began writing this story on Tumblr and followed a suggestion to post it here. It's a tad fluffy, a dash dramatic, but a lot of fun. I took it down for a bit because I'd found out people were copying it and posting it somewhere else. I just didn't know what to do, so I unpublished. One small Author's Note: Because I am not sure I can write about another country with authority without knowing more about it, I am creating a country-for storytelling purposes. It is in Southern Africa. It has a rich cultural history with proud, wonderful people but it has also been host to poverty and famine and more recent outbursts of violence and trauma. The country will be known as Bendal and has absolutely NOT been modeled after any one particular country. I hope you will allow me these small creativities.

"I'm sorry...can you just repeat that? You're marrying me off to WHO?" "Ransom Drysdale..." A playboy and bratty socialite forced to marry in order to keep their inheritances? What could possibly go wrong? 18+ Warning! Contains swearing and eventual smut. I don't own the Knives Out characters, just my own OC Effie Rattenberry

"𝙸'𝚖 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚒𝚐 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍, 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚢 𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚖- 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚘." "𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚎." ☾ After a failed attempt at a marriage with a narcissistic man who never actually loved her, Sloan Parker ran away. She ran from her entire life, leaving what little of it she still had behind, and kept running until she thought she found a safe place to stop, even finding a job as a popular authors personal assistant. But of course, she couldn't live her life safely forever, and when the authors grandson, Ransom Drysdale, stormed into her life, no one could've seen coming just how both of their lives would change. History will repeat itself as the young couple get thrown into a whirlwind of emotions and events. Relationships will be tested, all in a desperate last attempt at something worth living for. Something real. - Set in a Knives Out AU where Harlan Thrombey's murder never occurred. ⚠︎︎ RATED MATURE FOR SMUT, ADULT CONTENT, AND COARSE LANGUAGE ⚠︎︎ WORD COUNT (excluding authors notes): 99 920 words. - RANKS: #1 in knivesout (11/12/22) #6 in ransomdrysdale (14/1/2022)

----| "What are you going to do? Arrest me again?" I challenged him, watching as his icy blue eyes flashed with every word I spoke. The room was hot, the air was stifling, and my body was on fire every step he took closer. When he leaned in, I felt his smile. And then, all there was surrounding me was heat. Harlow Micheals had lived her life not really feeling alive. Her father worked too hard, her mother had left with most of her dad's hard earned cash, and her brother was all sorts of hidden secrets. For Harlow, she barely had time to be herself, let alone try and live her own life like she wanted to. Then she meets Flynn Morgan. Because one night, he arrests her for punching a girl in the eyeball. And you'd think getting arrested by the towns newest police officer would be a bad thing, but for Harlow, it might just be the one thing she needs to start living life again. Especially when danger starts becoming a regular part of her life, being involved, no matter how complicated, with Flynn might just be the one thing that saves her. ----|

"And it took me a while to realize it, but everything I've had to go through in this life, all the pain and sadness I've had to bear . . . well, its led me straight to you." • • • After tragedy strikes Morgan Scott's family, she finds her life changing drastically again and again throughout many failed attempts of starting over. It doesn't seem to matter where Morgan ends up, the secrets and pain of her past continue to haunt her, reminding her that "starting over" isn't nearly as easy as it sounds. Ending up in her father's hometown a few months after the day her life changed forever, Morgan finds her life changing once again, and she only hopes that this time will be for the better. It isn't until after a run-in with the town's golden boy, Jack Crawford, that Morgan realizes no amount of starting over will take away the memories of the past. What Morgan doesn't know is that Jack has a secret of his own that's eerily similar to hers. And what neither of the two know is that their secrets will unintentionally bring them together, reminding the duo that they aren't as alone as they often feel. [COMPLETE] [WATTPAD EDITORS' CHOICE LIST 2021]