Seventeen years old James is used to having foster kids around the house. Some stay for weeks, others for months, and even the most problematic of them tend to open up to his mother's kindness and gentle discipline. Until the new kid arrives. The one nobody else agreed to foster due to his history. He's trouble, and J...
Gray is a 15-year-old boy who has been chosen last his whole life, neglected by his biological mom, social workers, and the juvenile detention system. What happens when life begins to turn around when a new family takes a chance on him after his time in Juvie? Will Gray be accepted? Will Gray impact their lives in the...
Felix's brother Dylan is getting married, and Felix isn't happy about it. For one thing, his brother is an abusive jerk. For another, a wedding and a new extended family means that at some point, someone is going to try to give him a hug. Felix hates to be touched--a quirk that has kept him from having a romantic rel...
Rhys Snyder emerges from the turbulent world of a fractured family. Raised by a hardworking single mother, he has shouldered the responsibility of caring for eight younger siblings, whom his mother adopted when her distant family left them orphaned. His teenage years were marked by a dangerous mix of rebellious behavi...
Rafe Burne has endured years of abuse from his father. Now out of rehab due to heroin addiction and a juvenile detention center due to dealing drugs, Rafe is placed with a foster family. As he tries to navigate his new life, his past begins to creep back into his life. Living with a police officer and a courthouse emp...
[WATTY'S 2024 SHORTLIST] Seventeen-year-old, popular Athlete, Ontario Hackman struggles with identity, and the fact he may be facing something deeper-rooted than the surface, and when fellow gay boy, Nathaniel Ericson comes along, out and about, with his rainbow bracelets, and his shameless crush on the Popular Athlet...
Book 1/2 * * * * * * * "He fucking abused me!" Meet Jamie Da La Cruz. He is on the football team and gets bullied for an incident in 6th grade. His hides from his past and has a thick layer of sarcasm to hide his true feelings. Does he learn to accept? What breaks him, or s...
Romeo Swift is a rebellious teen with a stubborn attitude, he has a difficult home life and struggles with unhealthy coping mechanisms, so what happens when his dysfunctional family takes a vacation to the lake and he meets a mysterious boy who's the polar opposite of him? Will the pair hit it off, or will they entang...
Soren McKinin; the disappointment of the family, the child his parents wished did not belong to them, the type fathers warned their daughters not to date. Anger issues, a heartless brute that got into fights and saw the world as dark grey, helpless and pointless lump of rock. He was incapable of happiness, of love. ...
[Previously feautured Noteworthy Novel & Staff Pick on Tapas.io!] Frey Sanders isn't a shy guy. He is a lot of things - obnoxiously loud, over-confident, spoiled - but shy was never even in the list of words to describe him. He has enough confidence to have lots of friends, not considered to be the most popular in sch...
Book #1 of Therapeutic Love series (REVAMPED) At Westmont high, there are no cliques. There are no J.V. jocks or mean girls. Just a bunch of lazy teens trying to get through the hell that is high school. And this story is based on a very complicated relationship shared between 4 very different teens. Jaime (JJ) Janko...
When two boys who've hated each other since youth share a dorm room, things are bond to happen, mistakes are bond to be made and sparks are bond to fly. [Will be editing here and there] #3 in jealousy
Loving A Werewolf Series Alexander Ivey is a werewolf with bipolar disorder who constantly has to be reminded of how different he is by how he feels until he meets Jamie Nance - his very flamboyant mate. They deal with struggles from mental health, leadership, and a blast from the past with a hidden agenda while also...
I've always had a feeling that I would die young. Ever since I started pondering on deaths door I've had this feeling. I could care less about the hell and heaven shenanigans, but death. I want it. The end of my life. I want to be in my suit, in my coffin, in the ground and my soul to be gone. I've been waiting for 1...
"No, I'm an only child.What do you mean by I have brothers? " Follow Anastasia Rosaline Blade through her journey. Overcoming abuse, PTSD, depression, anxiety and suicidal tendencies. How she went overnight from being an only child to having 5 older overprotective brothers. Who are in the mafia but lets talk about tha...
[ Gay polyamory/polyfidelity ] [ 🌱 Discontinued, Sorry I cringe too much trying to reread this but i'll keep it up for thoes who wanna keep reading ] Avery's parents motivated him to love everyone, no matter their differences. Gay? That's cool. Different Race? Sweet. Different ways of life? Awesome. But when he gets...
Nour, 23 and a shifter hiding his true identity, lives with his older brother, Amine, 27, his brother's best friend, Rémy, 26 and Rémy's little brother, Matthias, 21. He knows they are trying to come up with a plan to kick him out, because nobody can handle his sarcasm and contempt for everything and everyone. It does...
Have you ever looked up to the night sky and wished you weren't alive anymore? Have you tried to list reasons to keep fighting, but not come up with any? When you did, how did you survive? Sixteen years earlier, the Borrelli family had their sixth child. A lovely daughter after five sons, who adored her more, than any...
Mason's life was once a whirlwind of success and accolades as a champion swimmer, his future stretching out before him like the glistening surface of a pool. However, the undercurrents of trauma and guilt swirled beneath, threatening to pull him under. - "You know, I think I've seen more of your tears than your smile...
BOOK 3 Must be read in order: Loving the Fighter, Fighting a New World, Fighting Family It's been four years since Callum left camp. It's been six years since Callum was arrested and had to leave his family. It's been seven years since Callum was a parental figure to his four younger siblings and he hadn't missed that...
After George accidentally outs himself in front of the popular and homophobic guys of the school everything seems fine at first. However, that soon changes when he receives weird and hurtful messages online, this soon escalates from just one message to something much more serious. Meanwhile, Clay is closeted yet he h...
George and Clay had formed a close friendship since they met in a Minecraft server and knew they lived close to one another in real life. Yet little did George know, that the person he knew as Dream online was actually his bully in real life. After a rough time at school from all the bullying, Dream was always there t...
Eliot Malt is the son of a billionaire, his father owns companies across the world. Eliot is however quite humble, he knows his roots and sticks to them. So what happens when he is taken away against his will one day and held for ransom, then finds himself breaking the norm by falling for his kidnapper? TWs (these wil...
Once Caleb reached the bottom of the stairs he quietly opened the door and tiredly switched on the light "Jayden it isn't morning yet buddy you need to-" he froze in place staring at a man he didn't know standing in his living room. The man stared back at him like a deer in the headlights, he looked a few years older...
Fifteen year old Lincoln Taylor's life had finally settled down, before the unthinkable happened. Suddenly sent to live with a father he never knew and a family he had never even met, his life is turned upside down. Finding love along the way, he struggles to find out where and who he should be in the world. Will h...
Lucas and Eliott were in love. There was no doubt about it. Over two years of beautiful memories, lots of kisses, and wonderful vacation trips were made and neither of them would trade it for the world. Yet there was something that was disturbing the peace of their relationship. Their shared suffering. ...
8 year old Alessia never had the best life. From being taken away from her family at a very young age to being diagnosed with cancer while dealing with mental illnesses daily, have been taking a toll on her for years. When she gets word that her captor got put in prison, she's send off to life with her older brother...
So to be totally honest I don't have a summary for this fic because its the first proper fanfic I've written since 2018 so tell me what y'all think. This is gonna be an angst/depression fanfic centric on Anthony LaRusso so obviously trigger warning for things like self harm and eating disorders. I did start writing th...
(This is Thomas's Story, read how it started from the beginning!) It was his Freshman year of high school, he wanted to have a fresh new start in high school. He was sick and tired of being the quiet boy who read books in the back of the class. He wanted to change that so one day he decided to try out for the wre...
