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.

HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 in tragedy #1 in sixbrothers #1 in teenagegirl Lily Alexandra Miller was wary of the circumstances she lived under. She was hanging by a thread to a play called life but somehow always survived. As she hears about the demise of the only people she knows in her life, the fate decided to bring her back to the place she was taken away from. What Lily doesn't know is that she is moving to her real family, the ones who love her, or so she hopes. All she can hope about is that her life gets better.

E·phem·er·al (adj.) Lasting for a very short time ִֶָ 𓂃˖˳·˖ ִֶָ ⋆★⋆ ִֶָ˖·˳˖𓂃 ִֶָ Aurora has spent her past thirteen years surviving, not living. Trapped in a broken home filled with cruelty and violence, every day has been a battle against the monsters she was forced to call family. Stained by her striking appearance--skin, hair, and eyes devoid of pigment--Aurora has always stood out. But one night, when flashing lights and sirens tear through the darkness of her world, everything changes for her. Her nightmares have been taken away in handcuffs, and for the first time, Aurora is free. Or so she believes. Swept away to a sprawling residence in New York, she's thrown into a new life with six mysterious older brothers she's never met, secrets buried in every corner, and danger that feels strangely familiar. As Aurora tries to rebuild, she begins to worry if the past is truly behind her, or if something even darker has been waiting all along. Wanting a future built upon more than merely scraping by, Aurora knows its time she fights for what was previously impossible. She's ready to live and claim her new life as more than Ephemeral. Even if it kills her. ִֶָ 𓂃˖˳·˖ ִֶָ ⋆★⋆ ִֶָ˖·˳˖𓂃 ִֶָ ⏾ The first couple chapters are short but get longer as you go. NO AI HAS GONE INTO EPHEMERAL.

For ten years, Evan and Ellie were gone. Taken when they were small children, they became the faces on missing-person posters, the names whispered at family gatherings, and the heartbreak their brothers never stopped carrying. Everyone assumed the worst. Then they came home. Sixteen-year-old Evan and twelve-year-old Ellie are finally rescued and returned to the family that never gave up searching for them. Their older brothers welcome them back with open arms, determined to help them rebuild the life that was stolen from them. But coming home isn't as simple as everyone hoped. Ellie hasn't spoken in years. No one knows why. She communicates through glances, notes, and the protective hand she keeps wrapped around Evan's sleeve whenever fear creeps too close. Evan insists they're fine. They're safe now. Everything is okay. Except it isn't. Behind closed doors, the siblings hide the truth about the decade they spent missing. The nightmares, the panic, the strange rules they still follow, and the scars no one is supposed to see. Evan is determined to protect Ellie from any more pain, even if it means carrying their secrets alone. Ellie, unable to speak, struggles to find a way to tell the people who love them what really happened. As their brothers work to reconnect with the children they lost, cracks begin to form in the carefully built walls Evan and Ellie have created around themselves. The harder they try to pretend everything is normal, the more impossible it becomes to hide the damage left behind. Because being rescued was only the beginning. Coming home means learning to trust again. And sometimes the hardest part of surviving is letting yourself be saved. What the Darkness Couldn't Take is an emotional story about family, resilience, and the unbreakable bond between siblings who refuse to leave each other behind-even after ten years lost in the dark.

Seventeen-year-old Nora Smith loses everything in a single night. By morning, she discovers she was never as alone as she thought. Six brothers in Milan. A powerful family her mother ran from. A legacy built on blood and silence. As Nora is pulled into the world her mother tried to escape, she must decide whether family is something that protects you... or something that burns everything it touches. Because blood doesn't burn.

A 13 year old girl had to go through so much at just a young age. She had to see the true and dark side of the world at a time when she should be safe and happy, that too by her own mother who was supposed to protect her. She had to worry about when she would get her next food to eat, when these painkillers would do their work when the children of her age were thinking about what to wear, hang out with friends and vacation with family. Was it so wrong that she just wanted an escape?? A place to call home and a family to call hers. Meet 𝔸𝕣𝕚𝕒 , A girl who had been abused by her mother ever since her father died when she was a year old or atleast that's what she was told. She soon finds the courage to leave her house behind and run away. She is taken in by her best friend's family and has to learn to adjust to her new, dramatic and overbearing brothers and newfound family. Do they grow on her, accept her or push her away and lose her?? Join her in this story as she finds the true meaning of family, friendship, love, care and safety. What is the actual truth about her past and what made her mother make her life a living hell.....?? 𝑅𝐸𝐴𝐷 𝑇𝑂 𝐹𝐼𝑁𝐷 𝑂𝑈𝑇 ....***** Started: 9/1/2024 Status: ongoing

Clover Marianne Emerson has always been a quiet storm, hiding her fears behind soft smiles and her scars beneath impossible expectations. When tragedy uproots her life, she is thrust into the chaos of her brothers' world-a place of loud voices, sharp edges, and a love she doesn't know how to accept. They are strangers bound by blood, each with their own cracks and shadows. Clover tries to fit herself into their lives, perfect and invisible, but perfection is a fragile thing. As the walls between them start to crumble, so does the mask she's always worn. Follow Clove as she learns to navigate teenage life, sibling rivalry, and her own dreams and as she begins to discover that perfection isn't what binds a family together-it's love, chaos, and everything in between.

Being a stalker came with its dangers in itself, but stalking the Italian mafia's princess? It was a task that could easily be rewarded with death. A deadly obsession. A just as powerful stalker. How will Maria deal with the rival mafias son being completely, utterly and irrevocably obsessed with her? . . . MARIA BIANCHI age 19 Protected and sheltered her whole life, by not just her overprotective parents but also her 3 older brothers. She always had a loving childhood but never the freedom to go out and explore. Homeschooled her whole life, she never got the chance to make many friends but her one best friend Isabella. Her mom's best friends daughter. What will she do when one day, when she is finally allowed to leave her house for a few hours she catches the eye of the worst man possible? The sole male heir to the rival mafia. The Russian mafia. ALEKSANDER PETROV age 23 One of the only two children of the Russian Don. He was raised lovingly but he never got the same care as his younger sister. He never resented her for it but grew to hate his father. The Russian Don. Feared by not just the citizens but also the government. Aleksander was known to be cold and heartless. He cared about no one and had no weak spot. Not even his dead mother who died giving birth to him. He was raised to be a don. He was never taught love, or kindness. Only cruelty and hate. So when he sees a brunette girl eating ice cream and feeding the ducks his heart doesnt know how to behave. And he does the only thing he's ever been taught. He fixates. (NONE OF THE PICTURES ARE MINE THEY ARE ALL FROM PINTEREST) #1 in stalkerromance, 25th & 26th January, 2026

After her mother's unexpected passing, Gemma is sent to live with a group of strange men who don't seem overly fond of her being there. Their secrets, their strange rules and behaviour make Gemma want to run; to hide, to go back in time to when everything felt safe again. But life doesn't always play the way's expected, and Gemma's life of before can only stay as that: in the past. Top Rankings: 6/11/2025: #1 in grief 7/1/2026: #1 in friendship 9/1/2026: #2 in siblings 13/1/2026: #1 in mystery 1/2/2026: #2 in selectivemutism 7/4/2026: #2 in brothers 8/4/2026: #1 in anxiety

Annaliese always craved a family. She desired a warm father, caring brothers, a loving mother and adoring sisters. Maybe even a dog or a cat. But, they were desired for a reason. She never had a family to call her own, not since she was abandoned on the side of the road when she was 5. Imagine her surprise when one day, a man tailored in a thousand dollar suit, picks her up and declares her his long lost daughter. Then, not only is she being recognized by a father figure, but she also has 5 older brothers to look after her? While learning to adjust to the modern world, Annaliese has to go through highschool, the overprotection of her family and the dark secrets they all seem so desperate to hide. Join her as she struggles, laughs, cries and cringes. Join her family as they go through ups and downs and test their bonds. Join the realm of "Hearth" and find a comfort within it. cover be @loverryna