book 1 of the windows of the soul duology ✿ ✿ ✿ lucent: softly bright or radiant ✿ ✿ ✿ My brother's hand traces the cut on my right cheek for some minutes. I have no idea how a cut can be so interesting, but I won't judge a book by its cover. He unexpectedly moves and places a heartwarming kiss on my crown, brushing through the strands of my hair. But what startles me the most, is when he speaks, "Duerme bien, mi niña bonita." And just as I wasn't able to sleep hours ago because of my stupid fear, I let myself fall into a dreamless sleep as his soothing voice travels through my ears. ✿ ✿ ✿ Layla Rivera. A young naive fourteen-year-old who's just lost her childhood best friend and guardian. She's anxious and timid when meeting other people, so she usually cowers and distracts herself, immerse between the pages of books. When she is thrown into the lion's den - or also named as her older brothers' house - she's left fearful and intimidated by the six foot three males who she never had a clue about. Trying to make sense of what her new life will bring while being unaware of the dangers her new home beholds, she tries to make her way into her new family, but it doesn't seem as easy as she expected, or is it? ©️juststarsandbooks All written works on this account belong to Juststarsandbooks. I do not condone any reproduction/duplication of this book anywhere - app, website, etc - without my consent. Pics aren't mine.

Grace Williams is a shy quiet girl with more pain than she ever leads on.She is a closed book who would much rather go unnoticed than ever be the center of attention.She may seem put together but she's just barley being held together.Her mom loves her dearly but her brothers share a very different opinion.She loves and looks up to them but the will barley give her the time of day.She will do anything to have a good relationship yet they keep turning the other way.Will they be there to catch her when she needs it, or are they the ones to pushed her a little to far.

Heartbroken after the betrayal of those who once meant everything to her, Isabella begins to pave her own path to freedom as she realizes that shared blood doesn't always mean family. And family doesn't always mean love. [This is the sequel to Caged. It cannot be read as a stand-alone] • • • Contains sensitive material (no cliches). Copyright © 2021 by luxedreams. All rights reserved.

Gabriella White is a 14 year old girl who's had to face more tragic events then a 14 year old should. At the age of 12 her mother was brutally murdered in a home evasion, which after closer investigation the police closed the case, so now stuck with her abusive stepfather, John for almost 2 what happens when her stepfather just picks up and leave, and Gabriella learns that she isn't a only child and that her mother has been lying to her, whole life, and that she has 6 older brothers that her mom took her away from them and her father when she was only 3. Join Gabriella on this journey as she deals with 6 older brothers that are hiding somethings from her. And how she deals with the demons of her past.

Sofia Peirce has been on her own for years, fending for herself while her so-called parents do nothing but use her. Until tragedy strikes and she is left alone with nowhere to go and a child that depends on her. She never expected the police to announce to her that she has 6 brothers and a father waiting for her in Spain. Now she has to move into a new area, with new people trying to desperately hide who she is. Everyone around her is keeping secrets but will they stay secret? Everything comes out at some point.

They say that nowadays, love cease to exist. It's just a myth. To which it never existed. That it was just in fairytale. Or in movie's, book but not life. But Ezra helped me prove them wrong. It not just a myth, it doesn't just happen in a fairytale. It happens not often, rarely ever. But it happens. ~ Nevaeh Summers life just start to work out. Until she met him. She finds herself tied to a man she can't seem to shake off. Ezra King, Mafia leader is feared by everyone. Until her She was his addiction, the one he crave for. Will Nevaeh be the one to melt the ice that is shielding his heart? Or will he corrupt her before then? "His my Greek God" "And She my Goddess" Start: December-12-2021 Ended: March-9-2022 2k reads 1-2-22 3k reads 1-6-22 30k reads 2-25-22 60k reads 3-12-22 100k reads 3-30-22 || Highest Rank || #1 in mafia love 2-5-22 #1 in happiness 4-1-22 #1 in funny moments 4-26-22

~book 1 of The Fragile Hearts series~ a story in which a girl discovers her family again. Charlotte is a girl whose faced so many hardships at her young age. At 15, she's lost the only family she's known. After reading a letter her grandma left, she discovers something that could change her life. Who will charlotte end up with? Will they have a relationship and be a family? only one way to find out :)

Valentina Rossi Santiago leaves Italy with her family to go to NYC in which she has the challenge to concur different aspects in her life including boys, volleyball, school, mental health and family issues in which she has her newly best friends after being betrayed by her old best friend and boyfriend. She is determined on herself, when she meets this boy Matteo Leone who makes her life insufferable but as they get closer with volleyball and school they start developing feelings when she thought she never will love someone after her past relationships. Will she concur school and volleyball all while having her life come down with unexpected news from her family . Who will help her at her lowest. Will her family tell her they are in the mafia?

♥︎book 1 in the 𝐕𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐋 series (Under editing) He took out his phone and dialed. "Isabelle vieni subito in bagno." {Come to the bathroom. Now.} Minutes passed. She walked in like she owned the world. But Leo - he bent me down on the sink like he was about to claim what was his. And I gasped - not in fear. In something hotter. Because this... This was how he proved I was the only one now. And I didn't want him to stop.♥︎ ★★★ Some loves start quietly. The dangerous ones don't. 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 grew up beside 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐣𝐚𝐡 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥- best friends, shared secrets, feelings they never named. Then the mafia took him away, and childhood ended without goodbye. Ten years later, fate brings them back together. Older. Closer. More vulnerable than before. But 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐣𝐚𝐡 has a brother he never talks about. And the moment 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 meets 𝐋𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨, everything tilts. Love turns complicated. Loyalty turns painful. And hearts don't always choose what's right- they choose what feels inevitable. In a world where family ties are deadly, some reunions don't heal. They ruin everything. 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓: June 8-22 𝐄𝐍𝐃: June 11-25 #𝟏 𝐦𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐚 August 26-22 #𝟏 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 June 15-22 #𝟏 𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 November 22-22 #𝟏 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 December 17-22 #𝟏 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 April 19-23 #𝟏 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 December 20-24