They left the mob behind. Normal life didn't get the memo. Luka wants a quiet senior year, Rico wants rules, and Dante wants chaos with plausible deniability. The only thing they all agree on? Staying low profile is harder when your instincts were built for war and your little brother keeps lighting the fuse. This is a reader-directed story, you get to help shape it, so jump in with me on the fun. This is a sequel to The Price For Blood. MxF relationships and family focused

A single night shattered their family, leaving only wreckage in its wake. Two brothers vanished, their mother and sisters send away, their empire shaken. Now, those who remain must fight to survive in the wreckage. Jordan and Dean have embraced the mafia, believing that power is the only way to keep what's left of their family safe. The stronger they become, the less anyone can take from them again. Wyatt, restless and defiant, refuses to be just another soldier in their war. He wants answers-about the past, about the brothers they lost, about the truth no one will say out loud. And then there's Luke, the youngest, trapped in a world he never chose. While his brothers fight to hold on, he dreams of a way out. Bound by blood, divided by choices, each brother fights his own battle. But in a world built on power, betrayal, and violence, one truth remains: the past never stays buried. And if they don't find a way to stand together, what little they have left may be lost forever.

For years, Luka believed his brothers were the reason his life always felt one wrong move away from blowing up. They were the danger. The threat. The shadow hanging over him. Then the secrets start spilling out, and the story flips. His brothers aren't the disaster he's been bracing for. They're the ones trying to keep it from swallowing him whole. The same men he's spent years fearing are suddenly the ones stepping in front of the worst of it, making choices that could cost them their lives just to keep him standing. It messes with Luka's head, because monsters aren't supposed to protect you. Trust doesn't come easy, but neither does survival. Somewhere between the lies, the secrets, and the close calls, Luka stops just trusting them. He starts counting on them. And in the process, he learns something that scares him almost as much as the truth about his family: He's more capable than he ever let himself believe. Love to hear from all the readers so please leave a comment. :) MxF relationships and family focused

He wasn't about to tell Polly - or anyone else, ever - that he was the infamous omega that ran from his international bond lawyer mate and instigated a historically unprecedented controversy over the country's mating laws. So he squeaked out a strange, high-pitched laugh that was startlingly out of place in that moment and said something like, "Yeah-eah. Right you are, M'am. Correct-aroni indeedy." OR Robbie is an omega with divorced parents, and yeah, maybe he's still bitter about it. But he'll be damned before he lets some 'destined' alpha mate ruin his life just like his step-dad did to his mum. Or... more than one alpha mate. Wait, what? © J. T. Leigh, 2021/2