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The Fiction Adaptation

The Fiction Adaptation

By Abraham of London

A prestige London romance where two tacticians try to design love—then must survive it.

“There is a war in the heart of London. It is fought with silence, strategy, and an impossible grace.”
“Love will not make me smaller.”

Teaser

This isn’t about falling in love; it’s about building it.

Davidson Adeyemi is an architect of order—a strategist who has turned survival into systems. After near-misses and one quiet, brutal surrender, he writes a vow in the margins of his life: love will not make me smaller.

Then London throws him Mara Solace—a producer who leads with her gut and her God, a woman with a spine like steel and a calendar that hums. She doesn’t do maybes.

Together they make a beautiful mistake: they attempt a contract romance—clear clauses, clean exits, boundaries with teeth. For a while it works. Then the city whispers. History knocks. Desire collides with discipline. The fortress they’ve built becomes their greatest test.

Can two people trained to fight alone stand together?

Logline

A brilliant London strategist must dismantle the walls that once kept him safe or lose the only woman capable of matching his conviction.

Series Snapshot (Streaming-ready)

  • Format: Limited series, 8×45
  • Genre/Tone: Prestige psychological drama • intimate thriller • dark romance
  • Setting: Contemporary London—glass and steel of Canary Wharf against late-night kitchens by the Thames; precise international edges when pressure demands it
  • Rating: TV-MA (complex ethical stakes, restrained but intense intimacy)
  • Hooks: Contract romance under public scrutiny • the cost of control • faith practiced, not performed
  • Comps: Succession (will-power chess), The Affair (memory/perspective), Normal People (raw intimacy), The Crown (artistry of restraint)

Core Characters

  • Davidson Adeyemi — The Architect. Systems genius, eldest-son gravity; impeccable at structure, apprenticing himself to feeling.
  • Mara Solace — The Producer. Warm, exacting, allergic to ambiguity; faith as craft, boundaries as tools.
  • Emmanuel Grant — The Ghost. Eli’s friend and mirror; sees fracture lines before they split.
  • Sera Dlamini — The Seer. Mara’s producing partner; a romantic with a cynic’s eye who spots dangerous cuts before the scene begins.

Season One Arc

  1. The Agreement — They negotiate a working romance (clauses, check-ins, exits). Heat flickers under glass.
  2. The Breach — A ghost from Eli’s past stresses the pact. Trust or retreat? London watches.
  3. Consent as Design — Desire by blueprint: adult, exact, slow. A boundary holds—barely.
  4. Proximity — Distance seduces; they choose presence as a discipline. The myth machine wakes.
  5. The Mirror Clause — Repair is practiced, not performed; a public table read burns with subtext.
  6. Witness — A dinner where faith is a verb; a kind line drawn with an edge.
  7. Public Offering — A viral misread; lucrative offers to sell the “cute couple” brand. They refuse.
  8. Standards — Deadline hits. Not perfect—decided. They choose the smaller room with the cleaner deal.

The Ritual Engine — The Retros

End-of-episode fuse; same table, two mugs, no phones.

  • Promise — What did we say we’d do?
  • Practice — What did we actually do?
  • Repair — What must we fix before tomorrow?

Formal variant: Intention / Evidence / Amendment (owner + date)
High-heat add-on: Cost — What will this choice cost, and are we paying it on purpose?

When the world intrudes, the Retro migrates—to a car, a green room, a rain-slicked walk—same questions, new pressure.

Themes & Motifs

  • Love as discipline — devotion that keeps its shape under heat
  • The cost of control — order as beauty and danger
  • Faith as syntax — embodied, unperformed, a quiet anchor
  • Intimacy as architecture — clauses, kitchens, night walks; the design language of staying

Cold Open (Pilot)

Black. Two sounds: a kettle mounting; a phone vibrating—once, twice, then still.

Light finds a small kitchen. Eli stops the kettle before it screams. Two mugs, equal distance apart. He weighs a text and doesn’t send it.
The door opens. Mara enters—late, but within the window.

MARA (hanging her coat)
Can we tell the truth before we get tired?

DAVIDSON
It’s written on our ledger.

She smiles. The scene is not about tea.

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Legal note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are imaginary or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real persons or events is coincidental.

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