"We fought an uphill battle. One we had no hope of winning." ~~~ Felicity-Flick as most call her-Carter, has learned a thing or two in her 12 years of life. How to deal with drunk parents without waking the neighbors, how to smoke a cigarette without burning your fingers, and how to be abandoned by your siblings without losing your mind. All skills acquired through heartbreak and survival. Cigarette smoke filled lungs, late night talks on rooftops, make up most of who Flick is. But when her fractured family begins to mend itself, Flick is faced with a new chapter in her life that involves the very people she never wanted to see again. Started: January 10th 2021 Finished: December 2nd 2021

Bronwyn Larson has spent her whole life not depending on her mother, a constantly recovering addict, until the moment her life was literally torn apart when an EF4 tornado ripped through their trailer park and her mom is found dead, miles away after the storm. Suddenly, her estranged father is a part of her life, a prominent state senator who's been absent since Bronwyn was born, a product of her parents' secretive affair. After living alone with her mother in a trailer for seventeen years, Bronwyn now has a stepmother and four new siblings, including an older brother and sister who seem skeptical, if not actually disproving, of Bronwyn living with them. While staying with them in their vacation lake house an hour away from what she called home, Bronwyn is hit with the bombshell that her mother's death is being treated as suspicious, with injuries inconsistent of being killed during the tornado. Estranged from everyone she knows, except her estranged new family, Bronwyn doesn't know who trust or who to believe about her mother's death. Torn between her life as the daughter of a single drug addict and the middle child of a well-respected senator, all while learning more about the mother she thought she knew, Bronwyn is forced to navigate through this new unfamiliar life alone, with this gut feeling she has. That her mother's killer isn't unfamiliar. 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐘 18th 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐏𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 Cover designed by Ashley Bandy

❝I think we've lost the meaning of family.❞ • • • A few years ago, we tragically lost our parents, and every day since then, my brothers and I have drifted apart. We have intense defense mechanisms and our own methods of survival in the adult world. Our house feels less like home, the city feels empty, and the stars seem more distant. Will we be able to heal as a family? Or will we go our separate ways as adults? ▫▫▫▫ ▫▫▫▫ ▫▫▫▫ Cover is made by me. Copyright © 2021 Josie Marie Any relation to other stories or characters is entirely coincidental and not intentional. Any credit for the #olderbrother trend goes to its appropriate writers/creators. All of my work is original, inspired by the #olderbrother trend, but based on my own life with four brothers.

NOTICE: Posy started on Wattpad in February 2022. However, it is not available to read online at the moment anywhere other than through Kindle Unlimited. If you have Kindle Unlimited, Posy is free to read through that platform. While I am under contract with Amazon, I cannot distribute or sell the ebook anywhere else. If KU doesn't work out, I will repost Posy on Wattpad for free. Until then, I am currently writing, Thoreau, a companion novel, and that is free for you to read on Wattpad. Posy Briggs, the runt of Green River, turned eighteen years old alone in a dark room, whimpering from the pain of her latest beating. After her mother's death six years ago, her father turned her into his punching bag, taking all of his sorrow and rage out on her small self. He isolated her from her pack, turned her older brothers against her, and put her wolf into a coma with an overdose of wolfsbane. Posy's sure she won't live to see her next birthday, yet every morning she rises with the sun and hopes for something to change ... and it finally does when Alpha Kendall Briggs' madness draws the attention of the Werewolf King. He sends five alphas to investigate. Five alphas who burst into Posy's life with the most delicious scents she ever imagined... Copyrighted and all rights reserved. Do not steal this story and post on any other website, platform, or application. **This story is chock-full of mature content. There are also flashbacks and description of abuse that may be triggering to some readers. Reader discretion is advised as chapters are not marked with trigger warnings. Not recommended for readers under 18.**

Amalia Romano is a selective mute. After years of enduring abuse from her step father, who has ridiculed and hurt her mercilessly, she doesn't want to talk, for fear of what might happen if someone doesn't like what she says. But then her step father--who's care she has been in for two years, ever since her mum died--passes away, and her father, who she was taken away from when she was three, agrees to take her in. But she isn't the smiley little girl she used to be. And the Romano men have secrets of their own, ones they want to keep their twelve year old princess away from. 1M VIEWS: Sunday, 12th March 2023 COVER BY: @sugarhighstoned

Miracle Series Book 2 Akshita Gupta A girl who has only seen pain and ignorance all her life. She was always an undesired child of her parents. Her only dream is to have a happy family. She wants her happily ever after but she is not hopeful she will get it. So what happens when she is arranged with Ashish Bansal? Will her dreams come true or they will be shattered like her heart? Ashish Bansal He is loved and knows how to love. He loves his family dearly. His sister is his entire world. He has got looks, money, a great career, and a happy family. He does not want to marry. Then why did he say yes to marrying Akshita so easily? Will they both fit each other's list? Will they find love in one another? Read more to find out...

Aurora life took a major turn, pain and suffering only made her stronger. Growing up with abusive parents, the only way she made it out alive was to become stronger. Working in the underground world she found out life had much more mysteries to it. A turn in events unfold and discovering her life is a lie and she is the missing daughter of the Spanish mafia, kidnapped when she was two. Secrets unfold even more, and a wild life comes with it discovering her found family all share many in common. and even with her new last name, it brings love, happiness and danger into her life. ~~ first book of the - love and war series. #4 in Italian- #12 in mafia princess #15 in badass

16-year-old Scarlette Russo has never got along with the universe. In her world, she doesn't know who to trust causing her to face the world with her bad attitude and a cold stare. she is closed off and very stubborn and allows nobody to walk over her. After years of abuse, she has built up walls and she doesn't plan on opening up to anyone anytime soon. she was truly alone in this world...or so she thought. everything changes when her 5 brothers she knew left her and now come back after her foster parents die. How will she face her family and open up to them especially with so many secrets in the air? Her brothers try to help her overcome her demons but how can they do that without overcoming theirs. Secrets from both sides of the family yet nobody ready to spill. Brothers, who try to break down her walls? New friends who might be a little rebellious, and mysterious green eyes. follow Scarlettes Journey as she enters her new life. TW: abuse along with some strong language

❝ You deserve the love you keep giving to everyone else. ❞ - The first emotion to fill Victoria Hunt when she was told about her father and step mothers passing, relief. But like every good emotion she'd felt over fourteen years, it came to an end quickly. The cause of it this time was being told she would have to live with brothers she never knew she had. It could be a fresh start, a chance to move on and finally have a real family. But the deeper she looks into eyes that stare back at her with empty promises and sweet spoken lies, she realizes that although she was never set for a good future, this one, might just be one she can't face. But families are supposed to stay together right? So through spilt blood and secrets and traitorous acts, surely even that can't stop DNA. It's an unspoken rule when you're a Hunt, no time for loyalty, no time for decisions on if you'd die for them, it's just a simple fact. You were born together so love or not, you must die together. For her sake, she should grasp onto that sooner rather than later. - Highest Rankings : #1 in brother #1 in support #1 in confidence #2 in siblings

❝Who we are and who we are to survive are two very different things.❞ Adeline Esmeralda Hale-Kingston is a 16-year-old girl with a rough past. Overcoming the things that life threw at her, she made her own name. Adeline, now known as Esme Hale is the youngest fashion influencer and the youngest multi-millionaire in the world. She is also the youngest and one of the best assassins in the underworld. Esme has been through hell and back. When her life finally starts getting better, life throws another problem for her, the person who was her rock is gone... dead. What does she do? She survives because that's the only thing she knows how to do. After the tragedy, Esme decides to go back to the orphanage, to get away and heal. Little does she knows, she is adopted by the last person she thought would adopt her. Now she has to go back and live with her 6 brothers who she so desperately tried to forget. Will her brothers be able to break down her walls and heal her? Will she heal her brothers who were lost without her? Will their secrets bring them closer or further apart? Because they are just not the same. 🚨WARNING: violence, swearing, killing, abuse, flashbacks/ thought of suicide and self-harm, rape.🚨 Cover by @devilsbean Highest ranking #3 in teen fiction (24/2/21) #1 in brother #12 in family #1 in Americanmafia #2 in assassin #1 in twins #1 in twin #1 in familysecrets #6 in littlesister