❝Who we are and who we are to survive are two very different things.❞ Adeline Esmeralda Hale-Kingston is a 16-year-old girl with a rough past. Overcoming the things that life threw at her, she made her own name. Adeline, now known as Esme Hale is the youngest fashion influencer and the youngest multi-millionaire in the world. She is also the youngest and one of the best assassins in the underworld. Esme has been through hell and back. When her life finally starts getting better, life throws another problem for her, the person who was her rock is gone... dead. What does she do? She survives because that's the only thing she knows how to do. After the tragedy, Esme decides to go back to the orphanage, to get away and heal. Little does she knows, she is adopted by the last person she thought would adopt her. Now she has to go back and live with her 6 brothers who she so desperately tried to forget. Will her brothers be able to break down her walls and heal her? Will she heal her brothers who were lost without her? Will their secrets bring them closer or further apart? Because they are just not the same. 🚨WARNING: violence, swearing, killing, abuse, flashbacks/ thought of suicide and self-harm, rape.🚨 Cover by @devilsbean Highest ranking #3 in teen fiction (24/2/21) #1 in brother #12 in family #1 in Americanmafia #2 in assassin #1 in twins #1 in twin #1 in familysecrets #6 in littlesister

❝I was with you before we were even born.❞ Adessa and Vanessa are the youngest of the Ivanov's. After years of living half-way across the world from their family, they finally go to live with them. But in a world full of lies, secrets, and death, their life takes a dangerous turn. Atrocious events follow the Ivanovs like a second shadow wherever they go. They have everything; money, control, power, dances on the tip of their fingers. But that everything wasn't enough to save something close to them. Now with the two new addition to their family, they are keen on not making the same mistakes that almost took everything they had in the past. And they did, just until a thread is pulled, starting a chain of events that reveals hidden secrets from the shadows. With an underlying threat, someone hellbent on ending them, a guardian angel, and a load full of secrets, complete mayhem breaking out is inevitable. Will they survive the problems the universe throws at them? ~ "Mayhem flows in our veins and we'll be damned if we let it go to waste."