Of Dust and Diamonds (On-Going)

Twenty-two-year-old Isla Ramirez has lived her life amid the "dust" of London's overlooked East End-juggling double shifts in a crumbling local library while studying for her engineering-school dream. Farouche yet fiercely ambitious, she survives on optimism and second-hand library books, convinced that someday grit can polish itself into something brilliant.

Across the city's glittering skyline reigns Dr. Alessandro "Sandro" Ferri, a thirty-six-year-old Italian billionaire who strode from chalk-dusty classrooms to diamond-bright boardrooms. A former mathematics prodigy with a PhD in structural engineering-and a sought after fashion model for luxury watch campaigns. Sandro commands "Ferri Innovations" from a penthouse office where Italian curses echo like thunder. Precision is religion; mercy is distraction.

Their worlds collide when Isla applied a scholarship at Ferri Innovations proposed by Sandro, to design prototypes. Impressed yet suspicious of her humble résumé, Sandro decided to hire Isla into a mentorship program inside his company's glass fortress. She must navigate his clipped Italian reprimands, impossible deadlines, and unnerving charisma, while he battles the unsettling realization that the girl made of "dust" might expose the hairline cracks in his diamond-hard façade.

As blueprints turn into late-night arguments and clandestine walks along the Thames, Isla confronts the cost of trading innocence for ambition, while Sandro discovers that even diamonds can fracture under the softest touch.