Nine-year-old Addison has known only darkness - locked away in a basement, her world has been one of silence, fear, and isolation. But when Addison moves in with the Harrington brothers - the family she never knew she had - she faces the daunting task of learning to trust, speak, and heal. Surrounded by love but haunted by her past, will Addison find the light she's been searching for - or will the shadows of her trauma keep her trapped?

Trying to cope with the loss of his parents and older brother after a horrific car crash is the hardest thing Bhodi Phelps has ever done. It doesn't help that he's autistic, struggles to read people, and often asks the wrong questions at the worst possible time. Bhodi is convinced he can survive on his own, he's nineteen after all, but he isn't really surviving. He's drowning in grief. Then he sees his brother's face staring back at him from a stranger. Firefighter Jayco Brennan may look exactly like Clayton, but he is his own person, and he isn't prepared for the road Bhodi is about to pull him down. When Bhodi's uncle Reid arrives and realizes how badly his nephew is struggling, he strong-arms his way into Bhodi's life and starts trying to fix everything. Bhodi sees it as one more person taking away his choices. Jayco steps between them, hoping to bridge the growing divide. What he doesn't realize is that while he's trying to save Bhodi and Reid from losing each other, they may be exactly what he never knew he needed. Through chess games, terrible jokes, and a series of unexpected trades, three stubborn men discover that family doesn't always come from blood. Sometimes, it's something you build one trade at a time.

Noah is a 12 year old boy who was kidnapped from his family when he was just under 2 years old. He had 7 older brothers and 2 loving parents, though he can't remember them after all these years. He's spent the last 10 years in a basement with countless rules and punishments. His family spent years searching for him, even after the death of their parents, until finally one day they got a call. Their youngest brother had been found and was coming home after almost 11 years. They were all excited and anxious for him to come home, but they didn't realize how different things would be. *this is my first story so my description might suck I put it as mature as it will contain swearing and the odd TW. #1 in younger brother February 2023 #1 in lost brother February 2023 #1 in baby brother February 2023 #1 in big family February 2024 #1 in youngest February 2024 #1 in shy September 2024

Ivory King has spent twelve years hidden away in a cellar, unwanted and unloved by the only mother she has ever known. She has never known affection. Never known comfort. Never known what it feels like to belong. But one night, everything changes. After her mother is murdered by her violent boyfriend, Ivory is pulled from the darkness and sent to London to live with five older brothers she never even knew existed. Roman, Isaiah, Ezra, Hudson and Elias King are rich, powerful and broken in their own ways, completely unprepared for the fragile little sister suddenly placed in their care. Ivory has spent her whole life believing she was a burden. Now, surrounded by brothers who are strangers to her, she must learn what family really means. But will they give her the love she has always dreamed of? Or will they reject her just like her mother did? ***** (Disclaimer: the images, quotes and songs in this book do not belong to me).

Riley doesn't remember the last time someone asked if she was okay. Not really asked. Not in the way that meant they were going to stay for the answer. She is seventeen years old and she has already learned the most important lesson this town has to offer - that people leave. They leave with promises folded neatly in their pockets, with good intentions they fully mean at the time, with duffel bags and bus tickets and fifteen days that turn into three years without a single word. They leave, and the ones left behind learn to stop waiting by the window. They learn to stop setting an extra plate. They learn to breathe around the absence until the absence just becomes the air. Riley works the late shift. She carries drinks to tables without being asked twice. She doesn't flinch at loud voices anymore. She doesn't cry at things that used to make her cry. She has become very good at being invisible in a room full of people - and even better at being invisible to herself. This is not the life she imagined. But it is the life she has. And she has made her peace with it, quietly, the way you make peace with things you never had a choice about. She is not waiting for anyone anymore. She stopped doing that a long time ago. Until the night a familiar face walks through the door - and three brothers who left her behind must now face what their absence built. Because blood doesn't forget. And neither does Riley.

When a plane crash kills her abusive mother and stepfather, 12-year-old Sky Rossi is ripped from years of neglect and thrown into the guarded world of the Rossi mafia empire. Stolen at two. Forgotten. Starved. Scarred. She returns tiny, malnourished, with jagged short hair she cut herself and clothes that scream "stay away." Her eight older brothers rule New York's ruthless Italian mafia - cold, powerful, and deadly. They expected a fragile little sister they could shield and pamper. They got Sky - a stubborn, hot-tempered tomboy who glares instead of speaking, pushes everyone away, and would rather sleep on the floor than accept their luxury. She trusts no one, flinches at loud noises, and hides her terror behind icy silence or sudden outbursts. The Rossi brothers have faced every enemy in the underworld. But this short, rebellious girl might be the one who finally breaks through their armor... or forces them to face the family they failed.

[𝐃𝐮𝐞𝐭 𝟏&𝟐 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐥𝐫. 𝐌𝐲 𝐈'𝐝-𝐓𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐰𝐫𝐭𝐬] Don Marcello Salvatore does not do mercy. He does not do soft. He has never, in his entire ruthless life, done children. Then his men find a three year old girl sitting alone in a Naples warehouse at two in the morning, no name, no parents, no explanation for how she got there. Just dark curls, steady eyes, and one small hand held out, waiting for someone to take it. He takes it. Six brothers. Three uncles. A house full of cousins, allies, one Spanish mafia capo who falls just as hard as everyone else, and exactly zero people prepared for what one tiny girl is about to do to all of them. Investigator Giulia Ferraro arrives looking for answers nobody in this family has. She finds a little girl already wrapped completely around the coldest men in Italy, and a mystery that goes back further than anyone wants to admit. Some families are built by blood. This one is about to be rebuilt by a three year old who chose them first.

Framed by her jealous twin at six years old, Aria Moretti was abandoned by her mafia family and sent to a school that turned out to be a brutal assassin training facility. She survived. She escaped. For six years, Aria lived hidden from the world, homeschooled and protected. No mafia knew she existed- especially not her biological family.When a police fight leads to a DNA match, Aria is forced back to the Moretti family. Her parents want her back. Her brothers are desperate to make up for the past. Her twin still hates her..And no one knew she was secretly in love with Dante Alvarez, the Spanish heir. They don't know she's an assassin They don't know she's part of the Alvarez family. They don't know she's Dante's. Not yet.

I thought I knew who I was. Gabriel Alvarez. Twenty. Son of a poor family in Albuquerque. Big brother. Protector. Future cop. My life had been built on long nights of work, endless study, and the unshakable promise that one day I'd wear a badge strong enough to keep my family safe. But then the threads started unraveling. Whispers of a world I wasn't meant to see. Names spoken like curses. The Caruso family. The Sicilian Mafia. Everyone in the city knew they ruled from the shadows. What no one knew, what I could never have imagined, was that I carry their blood. I am the brother they lost fifteen years ago. Every step I take now feels like a betrayal. To the family who raised me, who trust me with their lives. To myself, who swore I would fight men like the Carusos. But when the moment comes, when the truth tears everything apart, I don't know which side I'll stand on. The law I've devoted my life to... or the brothers who claim me as their own?

She spent her life waiting for a father's love that never came. Now, after losing everything, he's the one trying to save her. Seventeen-year-old Ava Delaney thought she understood pain-until she learned the truth. Her mother trapped her father with a pregnancy he never wanted. Her father built a new family without her. And when Ava begged him to forget she existed, he did. Months later, bruised and broken in a hospital bed after a violent night, Ava opens her eyes to find him there-the man who left her behind. But love doesn't heal overnight. Moving in with her father's perfect new family only opens new wounds: a kind stepmother who doesn't know how to help, a sweet little sister who adores her, and a half brother who hates her on sight. As Ava struggles to rebuild her life, she finds solace in Liam, the school's notorious bad boy who sees the pain she hides. But forgiveness isn't easy-not for her father, not for her brother, and not for herself. When buried secrets resurface, Ava must decide whether to keep running from the past or face it head-on-and whether broken hearts can still learn how to love. A story of family, forgiveness, and first love-The Unwanted Daughter is a heart-wrenching emotional romance about what it means to be seen, to be chosen, and to finally belong.