Alessandra has never believed in safety. Life never gave her a reason to. Pain carved her childhood, silence became her armor, and trust? That was a luxury she could never afford. So when she runs -- bloody, broken, and barely breathing, she doesn't expect saving. She certainly doesn't expect to be taken in by a family dripping in wealth and power and. . . warmth? A mother who refuses to give up on her. A father who watches like he's waiting for her to let him in. And six brothers. Rough. Protective. Complicated. Brothers, who don't know what to do with a sister who won't speak. She doesn't know how to trust. How to believe that maybe not everyone wants to hurt her. Every instinct tells her to run. To shut down. But they don't let her go. Not when she flinches. Not when she hides. Not even when she breaks. Happiness is for other people, or that's what she believes. But when love comes wrapped in gentle patience and fierce protection, when hands reach for her without demand, when hearts break themselves wide open just to hold her... she starts to wonder. Can a girl stitched together with silence and fear ever belong in a family built on love? Can she stand tall when the ghosts of her past refuse to let go? And when danger claws its way back into her life, threatening everything she's come to know... will she find her voice, or will she shatter all over again? Trigger Warnings: Child abuse. Violence. Addiction. Panic attacks. SA. Self-harm. Death, and more.

BOOK #1 IN THE DEVALDI SERIES For ten years, Evan and Ellie were gone. Taken when they were small children, they became the faces on missing-person posters, the names whispered at family gatherings, and the heartbreak their brothers never stopped carrying. Everyone assumed the worst. Then they came home. Sixteen-year-old Evan and twelve-year-old Ellie are finally rescued and returned to the family that never gave up searching for them. Their older brothers welcome them back with open arms, determined to help them rebuild the life that was stolen from them. But coming home isn't as simple as everyone hoped. Ellie hasn't spoken in years. No one knows why. She communicates through glances, notes, and the protective hand she keeps wrapped around Evan's sleeve whenever fear creeps too close. Evan insists they're fine. They're safe now. Everything is okay. Except it isn't. Behind closed doors, the siblings hide the truth about the decade they spent missing. The nightmares, the panic, the strange rules they still follow, and the scars no one is supposed to see. Evan is determined to protect Ellie from any more pain, even if it means carrying their secrets alone. Ellie, unable to speak, struggles to find a way to tell the people who love them what really happened. As their brothers work to reconnect with the children they lost, cracks begin to form in the carefully built walls Evan and Ellie have created around themselves. The harder they try to pretend everything is normal, the more impossible it becomes to hide the damage left behind. Because being rescued was only the beginning. Coming home means learning to trust again. And sometimes the hardest part of surviving is letting yourself be saved. What the Darkness Couldn't Take is an emotional story about family, resilience, and the unbreakable bond between siblings who refuse to leave each other behind-even after ten years lost in the dark.

Nine-year-old Liliana might be small, but she's bold, clever, and knows exactly how to drive her older brothers crazy. Life in the Valentino household is anything but boring. Join Liliana as she navigates mischief, laughter, and testing the limits of her brothers' patience while discovering just how much they adore her.

Vivian sinclair is an intelligent and cheerful 13 year old girl. She has soft blonde hair that falls to her shoulders, with blue eyes that light up, whenever she talks about her latest social media finds. She loves spending hours scrolling on instagram for outfit inspiration, posting about her life and the latest trends, while tiktok is her creative playground, where she films fun dances, lip syncs to trending audios, and spreads love and happiness to her growing audience. But all that stopped after the heartbreaking loss of her mother, she always had a subtle smile that hides her emotions. Her father, Lorezo. Was a kind, but busy man trying his best to keep his daughter happy. Their relationship is steady, though both are still healing in their own ways. Now her father is preparing to remarry, and Vivian find herself grappling with the idea of a new family. His fiancée, Riley. Who had her own children, which were all 6 boys. Vivian is uncertain about fitting into this new family of hers, keeping distance from her soon-to-be step brothers.

Iris. When you hear that you think of a eyeball but if you ask a person from London they would tell you about a girl who has secrets lots of them everyone looks at her differently so she is excited when she finds out she is moving to the United States because her mom is getting married but the downside is that this man has six nosey boys who are determined to find out her past. Will she make it through with out them finding out or will they? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cover made by the beautiful @bluelikethe_sky Started:June 24th 2019 Ended:June 24th 2021

At twelve years old, Emmy believes rules are the only thing that keep her alive. She believes her name is Emily-a girl who learned to be quiet, obedient, and perfect in order to survive. Every mistake feels dangerous. Every rule feels necessary. But when Lucian Valmont takes custody of her, Emily becomes Emmaline, and she is placed into a world nothing like the one she escaped. The Valmont household is powerful, disciplined, and unforgiving, ruled by stern authority and shaped by seven men who do not want her there. But as tensions rise within the family, it becomes clear that Emmy's quiet presence is changing them-whether they want it to or not. And when she is nearly lost, the Valmont brothers are forced to face the truth they've been avoiding. Emmy was never the weakest among them. She was the one holding them together

Celeste Loyona. She is a shadow. Not there, yet there. She runs the entire room, and nobody realises. She's just seventeen. She shouldn't have to face hardship. But that's all she's known. When her guardian Jason is killed, Celeste, doesn't know how to feel. S̶h̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶F̶o̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶e̶.̶ She is going to live with her brothers. The brothers who never showed up for her when she needed them. When Celeste comes back, her brothers expect her to be a normal girl. A normal girl who has had a fairly comfortable life. No trauma. No criminal record. No need for a job. Basically, they expect her to come back as the princess in their imagination. The princess she used to be. But that was when she was 2. So now... She's not princess anymore. She's a queen. #1 in Mafiaprincess out of 8.79k #1 in Italianmafia out of 1.1k #1 in independentwomen out of 300 #1 in mafiaqueen out of 1.05k #2 in Italy out of 9.86k #3 in strongwoman out of 1.08k #4 in family out of 227k #5 in the witw contest out of 2.19k #6 in mafia out of 82.8k

Olivia Jones barely remembers her brothers. When her mother divorced her father and took Olivia with her, the memories of who they were to her slowly faded. Despite that and everything that's happened within the past year, Olivia agrees to the adoption that the Russo brothers set forth. As long as they follow a certain set of rules. The Russo brothers haven't seen their baby sister in nine years. When they agree to adopt her after her mother's death, they aren't prepared in the slightest for what she is now. Strange requests, nightly excursions with her binoculars, and an unrelenting fear of letting anyone in start to make everyone question what happened to the sister they knew. When Olivia finds out that she hasn't yet left her past behind, the problems only become aggravated. While her brothers fight to be let in, she fights to keep them out. But this tug of war can't go on forever.

Ethan Sanders is a college student in upper Georgia learning to be an engineer. His dreams must abruptly come to a holt as he is forced to care for his 3 year old sister after their parents die in a fatal car crash. How will this young college student cope with raising a rambunctious toddler?

It's been three years since Sophie moved in with her older brothers, it's been three years since her mother passed away and she has been growing and changing in the last three years. Sophie is about to be fifteen years old and has she get's older, she realizes how much her mother will miss out on. The future she has, her mother won't be around to see it. Her grief has reappeared after she believed she had gotten better. For Sophie's brothers, it's been three years if learning how to be the best brothers they can be for Sophie. It's been three years of nightmares and panic attacks, of fear that keeps their little sister locked in her room. It's been three years of trying to help their sister. Now, she's fifteen and dealing with a lot both on the inside and the outside. The first book is being rewritten so it will be different than what this book is about. I will get around to rewriting this book as well but not right now. I'm changing quite a few things about the original story and I will be editing Being Their Little Sister also so they match. For the moment, My Older Brothers has been taken down for editing and I will start putting the chapters back up after I've edited the chapters. I will do the same with Being Their Little Sister.