Bruised Fruit: Working as a hostess in a Las Vegas casino means Gloria's brushed shoulders (and in some cases, more) with a lot of movers and shakers, but none as magnetic as Michael Corleone, whose family takes ownership of the establishment after the unexplained murder of her old boss and majority stakeholder, Moe Greene.She and Michael's long-standing clandestine affair escalates to legitimacy with the betrayal of his wife, Kay and their subsequent divorce.

All too soon for her liking, Gloria finds her carefree lifestyle ripped from her as she becomes further entangled in Michael's web in his desperate attempt to salvage control of his family.
Godfather (1972) fanfiction

Wax Daughter: Ambrosia, food of the gods, the namesake of a town intended by its founders to be emblematic of the idealized New South: strong, progressive, bursting with opportunity. Established in the early 20th century to support workers in its sugar mill and their families, Ambrose, Louisiana, seems poised to fulfill its original vision as it skates through the Depression and two World Wars unscathed and into post-war economic boom.

By the time Nancy Sinclair is born in 1972, the halcyon days of the mill town her family founded are coming to an end as dysfunction and disillusionment seeps down from their ancestral mansion on the hill into every square inch of Ambrose.
House of Wax (2005) AU