I kneel into a dream where I am good & loved. I am good. I am loved. My hands have made mistakes I can undo.

When the dark reality of her family's past starts to shatter through the intricate web of lies she's been living in, Aspen is forced to accept a devastating truth. In the name of love, monsters can arise from the hearts of men. • • • This is the sequel to Missing Pieces. It cannot be read as a stand-alone. Contains sensitive material (no cliches). Copyright © 2024 by luxedreams. All rights reserved.

Evangeline-bearer of good news. That's what her name meant, and that's exactly what she was. When Alessandro gets a call from a social worker in Chicago asking him if he would be willing to finally take his sister in after so many years, he is ecstatic. Finally, he had something good to tell his brothers. The exact thing they needed to fill the void in their home, their family, and their lives. When certain secrets under wraps come undone, and certain people make their way into their finally glued together family, Evie has to learn how to balance love, forgiveness, and fury, as well as the unbearable grief that came with the loss of her twin brother.

"Let the beautiful world be just an illusion of lies." It had always been just the two of them - Irie and Finnick. Irie the sweet, but very quiet ten-year-old. The innocent kid; she never saw the ugly side of reality. She was happy. The trauma she had experienced as a baby had washed away all the bad memories from her past; she couldn't remember her parents. In her brain she had never had them - she only had her older brother. And he was the only person she ever even needed in her life. Irie never asked it to happen. Maybe she started to wonder about her past a little more, but she was a kid - of course a child without parents would some day think about their whereabouts. But she never thought that she would meet anyone else who shared the same blood with her. She did, two of them, and no, the other one was not her mother. Suddenly it all took a turn, and the life which had once been so beautiful in her innocent eyes started to be only a delusion of something horrible.

"I, William James Archibald, being of sound mind and body, do hereby declare this my last will and testament. To my beloved grandchildren, Alastair, Aurelia, Julian, Carver and Ophelia, I leave the entirety of my estate, to be divided equally amongst the five of you." "However," Mr. Harris, the lawyer continues, his voice gaining gravity, "this inheritance comes with one condition. Before my assets are to be divided, each of you must spend six consecutive months living together here, at Arcadia Manor." [ Extended synopsis inside ]

After being in the foster care system for 14 years, 16-year-old Will learns that he has 5 older brothers and a father he never knew about. He's moved to live with them and learns the true meaning of family and love. (I know it sounds cheesy) Top Rankings: #1 in father #1 in fostercare #1 in fosterhome #1 in fosterkid #2 in family #2 in fosterfamily Warning: Curse words and abuse are in this story. If you don't want to read that, don't read this.

The Valentinos have always been a family full of energy and passion, but more often than not, these emotions get twisted into the wrong circumstances. What happens when a new face worms it's way inside the household, disturbing the familial foundation and most importantly, attempting to replace what, or who, was lost?

Guinevere Westley is a neglected little girl who would do anything for love and attention. But Evie is not easy to love - too tainted and jagged from her abusive mother and an absent, manipulative father. When her mother commits suicide, she finds out she has six older brothers who decide to take her in. Soon the brothers find that things are harder than they seem.

Viviana Laurier is the epitome of a benevolent and beaming fourteen-year-old. Living with her step-father since she was four, relentless abuse and anxiety filled her daily life. Trying to balance two lives at once, she has managed to perfect the art of faking it. When her step-father is found dead, she is sent to live with her incredibly intimidating, wealthy, and deadly brothers, whom she had no idea existed. Her arrival marks a moment of no return; everyone's life-changing for better and worse. Settling into her new life, she struggles to conceal herself. As her brothers strive to shelter her from their lifestyle, they start to break down the walls she has worked desperately to build up. And with secrets unraveling, Viviana finds herself unwittingly propelled into the grasp of danger...

Antheia always prayed to whatever deity was listening to bring her to her mother or to get her stepfather to be more humane but none of her prayers were answered. Until one day she wished for love.