15 year old Isla is alone. Her parents dead and nowhere else left to go, she turns to a name written on the back of an old photo. Donald Mallard. For her, the name is all but a memory. To Dr. Donald Mallard, Isla may just be all but a ghost from the past.

War doesn't wait for the innocent. When Task Force 141 stumbles across a five-year-old girl hiding in the ruins of a collapsing city, they're forced to make an impossible choice - leave her behind, or protect her while carrying on their mission. Bruised, silent, and clinging to survival, the child becomes more than just a responsibility. To Captain Price, Ghost, Soap, and Gaz, she becomes a symbol of everything they're fighting to save in a world torn apart by violence. But every step they take with her puts all of them in greater danger. And in the midst of chaos, 141 learns that sometimes the smallest soul can leave the biggest mark on hardened soldiers' hearts.

When a terrified four-year-old girl appears at the Navy Yard covered in blood, asking for only one person-Tony DiNozzo-his life changes forever. Maddie, his goddaughter, has lost the only family she's ever known. Now Tony steps up as her protector, learning how to parent through gentle hands, sleepless nights, and countless whispered promises. With Gibbs' quiet guidance and the team's support, Tony discovers his greatest role isn't agent, jokester, or partner-

Ava Volkov, a teenage operative trained in Russia's covert Red Echo program, is loaned to NCIS for a case. She's cold, brilliant, and lethal-but beneath the steel is a child who has never known safety. When Gibbs discovers what Homeland has put her through, he takes her under his wing. But Ava's past is darker than any file, and NCIS becomes the first family she's ever had to fight for. She was trained to obey. NCIS teaches her to live. Raised in shadows. Used as a weapon. A girl who never learned to be a child finds her first real family in Gibbs and his team.

When 4 girls mysteriously go missing from their hometown, the BAU is called out to work the case but nobody expected one of the girls to have a connection with a member of the team.

When the BAU investigates a string of brutal family murders, the last thing they expect is Sadie Hughes-a 15-year-old prodigy with an IQ of 190, a traumatic past, and a mind that reads people better than most adults. After her adoptive parents are killed while she's away at a psychiatric hospital, Sadie becomes the team's only witness... and their most vulnerable. As Rossi takes her under his wing, the BAU must protect a girl who thinks she's cursed-and uncover a killer who may be hunting her next.

Ten-year-old Brydee Prescott has learned to stay silent. Mute since her sister's tragic infection, she hides her fears behind a grumpy facade, watching as the undead roam freely and danger lurks at every corner. Life in the Quarantine Zone is bleak, but Brydee's greatest worry is her father, who vanished on a secret mission for the Fireflies six weeks ago, leaving behind nothing but unanswered questions and a promise to return. Desperate to find him, Brydee hatches a daring plan. She sneaks into the back of a Firefly truck, hoping it will lead her to her father. But instead, she ends up trapped in the State House, surrounded by the chilling remnants of the Fireflies-only their dead bodies remain. Just when Brydee thinks she might never escape, three strangers appear: Joel, Tess, and Ellie, a fearless girl with a mysterious secret-she's immune to the Cordyceps virus. Things lead to another, the State House blows up with, regrettably Tess in it. Not having anyone but each other, Joel, Ellie and Brydee embark on a harrowing journey to track down the elusive Fireflies, with Brydee determined to find her father. Along the way, she discovers that the fight for survival is as much about finding hope and family as it is about facing the undead. -> cover by the lovely @pinkmatterwp

[𝑰'𝒎 𝒄𝒐𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒕] 𝐑𝐄𝐍 had been through enough the last few weeks, she was mentally exhausted and ready to go home in a couple of weeks, even with her newfound debt, being in South Korea again had been nothing but reminders as to why she had never come back after her last relationship, with 𝐇𝐘𝐄𝐎𝐍 𝐍𝐀𝐌-𝐆𝐘𝐔; On a nightly walk to clear her head, she was approached by a 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐍 of sorts with an offer that seemed too good to be true, yet the prospect of becoming a 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐄 was far too tempting, and now, she has to fight for her life playing games for children, games she never played as a child; because she didn't grow up here. 𝐂𝐇𝐎 𝐇𝐘𝐔𝐍-𝐉𝐔, however, caught her eye from the very beginning, and 𝐑𝐄𝐍 is determined to make the best of a bad situation, she fell harder than she would've liked but 𝐇𝐘𝐔𝐍-𝐉𝐔 was always there to catch her, and now; she's obsessed, and she'd do anything for her, without question. [𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰'𝒎 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏]

𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 .☘︎ ܁˖ ( 𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝟐-𝟑 x child!oc ) 𝟏𝟑 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝐀𝐡𝐧 𝐉𝐢-𝐲𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 and unknowingly entered a game where death was the rule, not the risk. Now trapped in a twisted world where children play for their lives, how far will a child go to earn a future? 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝: 06/05/25 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝: 10/26/25

What happens when a twelve-year-old accidentally joins the games? Y/n L/n never thought she'd end up in anything more intense than surviving her uncle's awful cooking or his beatings. After losing her mom, life became a quiet battle for her, living with her debt-ridden uncle on the city's outskirts, just trying to survive each day. But then everything flips when a mysterious, smooth-talking salesman gives her a weird-looking card and promises to help 'change her fate.' Desperate to leave her uncle and sick of feeling helpless, Y/n bites the bullet... and suddenly wakes up in some strange facility surrounded by strangers and masked guards. [HIGHEST RANKINGS] #1 Squidgames #1 456 #2 001 #3 Gi-hun #2 Hyun-ju #1 in-ho #5 Squidgame season 2