They buried her husband on a cold morning—
and the village smiled like it was finally free of her.

Rashi Leonita was only a young widow, yet people looked at her like she was a curse.
An outsider.
A woman who should stay quiet, stay small, and disappear.

In her first life, Rashi had already learned what it meant to lose everything.
She worked until her bones ached, trusted the wrong people, and died with nothing but regret.

So when she opened her eyes again…
and found herself back in 1984, wearing the black clothes of mourning, standing in a village that hated her—

Rashi didn’t cry.

She didn’t beg.

She made a promise instead.

This time, she would survive.
This time, she would win.

The only thing she has left is a broken old house, a tiny morning stall, and a coffee farm on the hill—
a farm everyone suddenly wants to take from her.

Her late husband’s family calls it “their property.”
The village council calls her “a problem.”
The market bullies call her “easy prey.”

But Rashi knows something they don’t.

Coffee isn’t just a crop.
It’s power.

She starts with nothing but her hands—
roasting beans over a small fire, serving coffee at sunrise, and selling her signature crispy bala-bala that everyone secretly loves but refuses to admit.

The village tries to shame her.
They whisper that a widow has no right to dream.

Yet every morning, her stall grows busier.

And then he arrives.

Greg Veralta.
A cold, sharp-eyed café owner from the city, famous for turning failing businesses into gold.

He comes to the village for one reason:
to find a coffee bean rare enough to save his empire.

But the moment he tastes Rashi’s coffee…
he stops thinking like a businessman.

He starts thinking like a man who has found something he refuses to lose.

Greg offers her a deal.
A contract.
A way into the city.

Rashi refuses at first.

She has been owned before—by poverty, by grief, by other people’s cruelty.
She won’t become anyone’s “project.”

But as the village turns more vicious and the farm’s ownership papers begin to unravel, Rashi realizes the truth:

Someone doesn’t just want her land.

Someone wants her gone.

And the deeper she digs into her husband’s death, the darker the secrets become—
because it wasn’t an accident.

It was a warning.

Now Rashi must fight her way from a small village stall to the ruthless city market,
turning every insult into fuel,
every rumor into profit,
and every cup of coffee into a step closer to her throne.

But the greatest danger isn’t the enemies watching her fall…

It’s Greg Veralta—
the man who looks at her like she’s already his.

Because if Rashi becomes the Coffee Queen of the 80’s,
she won’t just gain an empire.

She might lose her heart.

And this time…
she doesn’t know if she’ll survive that.

 THE 80'S COFFEE QUEEN:  REBORN AS A YOUNG WIDOW  ===================


but as a woman who worked herself to the bone,


When she opens her eyes again, it's 1984.


And she is already wearing the label the village hates the most:


In this small coffee-growing village near the hills, being a widow doesn't mean grief.


It means every smile is fake, and every kindness has a price.


They say her husband died because of her.


They say her presence will ruin the harvest.


They say she doesn't deserve to touch the family land—


especially not the coffee farm her husband left behind.


But Rashi remembers something they don't.


And she knows exactly how the world works when you're a woman with no protection:


They destroy you with rumors, paperwork, and hunger.


At dawn, she opens a tiny morning stall behind her old house—


one kettle, one tin of beans, and one secret weapon nobody expects from a "poor widow":


It sells out faster than the village dares to admit.


But they line up when no one is watching.


For the first time, Rashi earns money with her own hands.


Because her husband's death wasn't an accident.


is worth more than the village ever told her.


Her "family" wants her to hand the farm back like she never mattered.


Greg Veralta—cold-eyed, sharply dressed, and dangerous in the quiet way.


A café entrepreneur who doesn't waste words, doesn't offer sympathy, and doesn't believe in "village stories."


he's looking at her like she's not just a widow—


but a product the world hasn't discovered yet.


So he leans closer, voice calm as a contract being signed.


"Then I'll buy everything around you… until you have no choice."


She doesn't want a man who thinks money can own her.


But the more she fights to protect her farm,


the more she realizes Greg isn't just chasing her coffee.


He's chasing the woman who refuses to break.


love isn't the safest thing a widow can have.


she might lose the one thing she swore to protect:


she might lose her empire before it even begins.


And a city man who doesn't know how to want something halfway.


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Chapter 1 - BOOK INFO