They were stolen together. They grew up with only each other. For fifteen years, their family searched, hoped, and refused to give up. Now the truth is finally within reach. But bringing the twins home won't undo what was done to them. Some wounds change everything. And some families never stop fighting for the people they love.

Book one in The Aftermath Duology. From the moment the twins were taken at just two years old, their lives were marked by darkness and cruelty-a childhood spent under their father's abusive control, where fear and isolation became their daily reality. Meanwhile, four older brothers were left behind, each carrying the weight of loss and unanswered questions. As years pass the scars deepen-but so does the truth. When the past begins to unravel, the twins must confront the reality of what was done to them, and the brothers must decide how far they'll go to bring their family back together. This book is basically one big TW Don't read if you're not comfortable. I don't want anyone getting hurt. Highest rankings #1 Abuse #1 Twins #4 Mafia

Aurora Moreno has lived in silence since her mother died - unwanted, blamed, and bruised by the man who raised her. When he ends up dead, the town calls it murder. She's eighteen. Alone. And sent to the wrong prison. A men's facility. A clerical error. No way out. There, one inmate watches her. Cold. Untouchable. He doesn't belong there-because he's not really an inmate. Damian del Río is undercover, sent by the Spanish mafia on orders from his brother, the don. He's known for feeling nothing. Except something stirs when he sees her. What Aurora doesn't know is that she has brothers. That she's been missing for fourteen years. That her real name isn't Moreno.

Alessia has carved out a life in the shadows, helping other forgotten kids like herself. But when a failed theft lands her in the sights of a boy who looks exactly like her, everything changes. Torn between the harsh life she knows and a violent world of wealth, secrets, and control, Alessia must decide who she really is - and how far she'll go to protect the only family that ever truly mattered.

For fifteen years, Carina and Marcello Rosa have believed the same thing: their father was a man they were better off without. Cruel, dangerous, and absent, he was the reason their mother took them away and built a life far from him. The twins grew up believing she saved them from a man who could only hurt them. But when their mother dies unexpectedly, everything they thought they knew begins to change. With their father still serving time in prison, he makes one decision that forces Carina and Marcello into a life they were never meant to know. They have half-brothers. Brothers who never knew they existed. Brothers who belong to the Cavallo family. To Carina and Marcello, they are strangers tied to a past they were taught to fear. To the Cavallo brothers, the twins are a secret their father kept hidden for fifteen years. Now, they must navigate a family built on loyalty, secrets, and old wounds while uncovering the truth about the man they thought they knew. Because sometimes the people you were warned about aren't the ones you should fear.

An alternate universe of The Moretti Heiress. (Can be read as a standalone) Everyone assumed Serena Moretti had it all. The powerful father. The four brothers. The mansion. The name that made people step aside when she walked into a room. What they didn't see was the girl who ate alone. Who stopped asking for things at six years old because the answer was always nothing. Who learned to patch up her own wounds because no one was coming to check. The Morettis didn't lose their daughter. They just never looked at her long enough to find her. Some things are worse than being abandoned. Being forgotten is one of them. #1 out of 1.18k : onlygirl #1 out of 8.71k : forgotten #1 out of 19.3k : rivalry #1 out of 23.4k : familyproblems #1 out of 94.4k : emotional

Twelve-year-old Sydney has always looked up to her older brothers. Mason, seventeen, is the steady one-the quiet backbone of the family who seems like he already knows how to be an adult. Banks, fourteen, is the storm. Loud, unpredictable, always in trouble at school and at home. And Sydney loves them both in completely different ways. But lately, something about Banks doesn't add up. His anger feels sharper. His excuses don't quite make sense. And the more the family tries to correct his behavior, the worse everything becomes. Teachers complain. Parents argue late into the night. Mason tries to hold everything together while Sydney quietly watches it all unravel, still believing her big brother is just... misunderstood. Then Sydney discovers the truth Banks has been hiding for years-he can't read. What follows is a fragile, painful reckoning. The family is forced to confront not only Banks' secret, but everything they missed, ignored, or misunderstood along the way. Shame and fear collide with love and loyalty, and suddenly nothing feels simple anymore-not what Banks did, not why he did it, and not how to fix what's been broken for so long. Sydney finds herself caught in the middle, determined to protect the brother she adores while the family fractures under the weight of a truth they never saw coming. And just when they begin to find a way forward, an accident changes everything-reshaping their lives in a way none of them are prepared for, and forcing them to decide what family really means when everything falls apart. A heartbreaking story about hidden struggles, misunderstood behavior, and the kind of love that has to survive the truth.

Eighteen years ago, a woman vanished with her newborn son. She left behind a powerful husband, three sons, and a criminal empire known only as The Shadows. Everyone believed she had abandoned her family. The truth was far more dangerous. Determined to save her youngest child from the life that consumed the rest of her family, she erased his identity and disappeared. For eighteen years, Noah lived an ordinary life. Then his mother died. Now strangers know his name. Powerful men are watching him. And a family he never knew existed has finally found him. Three brothers claim he belongs with them. The Shadows claim him as blood. And someone within the organization wants him dead before long-buried secrets come to light. As Noah is pulled into a world of loyalty, betrayal, and violence, he must uncover why his mother fled-and what she was trying so desperately to protect him from. But the deeper he digs, the more one question haunts him: Was his mother hiding him from The Shadows... Or hiding The Shadows from him? In a world built on secrets, trust is a luxury. And love may be the most dangerous secret of all.

Seventeen-year-old Lilliana Rose Vitale has known nothing but pain. Trapped in a home with an abusive stepfather after her cruel mother's death, she's spent her life hiding bruises-both on her body and in her soul. Bullied at school and broken at home, she believes her life will end in silence... until the day everything changes. Her stepfather overdoses. And a long-buried secret rises from the ashes: Lilliana isn't alone. She has a father-the most feared Mafia Don in Italy, Alessandro Marco Vitale-and nine overprotective older brothers who never knew she existed. Dragged from a life of shadows into one of power, wealth, and danger, Lilliana must now learn to survive a new kind of chaos. Can she trust these dangerous strangers who call her "sorellina"? Can she heal from the trauma that haunts her every breath? And what happens when a ruthless Russian Mafia heir takes a special interest in the quiet girl with fire in her eyes? Family. Loyalty. Secrets. Blood. Her past tried to break her. Her future might just burn the world down.

Fourteen-year-old Serafina Rose Lombardi never knew she had brothers - let alone six of them. After the sudden death of her guardian, Luciana, Serafina is uprooted from everything she's ever known and brought to a sprawling, terrifying estate in northern Italy. Her new life is ruled by cold, unreadable men who terrify everyone but speak to her in quiet, unfamiliar tenderness. As Serafina tries to adjust to governesses, towering gothic halls, and brothers who seem more like shadows than people, she begins to suspect that the past she was told isn't the full truth. Why was she hidden from them all her life? Why does no one speak of her parents? And why does every hallway seem to whisper secrets? Each brother wears a mask. But Serafina isn't just a little sister. She's a Lombardi. And she's going to find out the truth - even if it unravels everything they've tried to protect her from.