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Dysfunctionality Runs In Our Veins by ikc_writes
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'Dysfunctional: not operating normally or properly' That was one way to describe Clara Campbells family. Dysfunctional; not operating properly. That was just what happened when your older siblings leave you. Or that's what Clara had always believed. She had never had any parents there to hold her hand or any older siblings to tease her; they had grown up before her. She knew how to cook, clean, walk around her parents emotions, go to and from school; she know how to take what life gave her. Well, what was the other opportunity that she could of had? But what happens when her ship gets rocked and thrown off course? When people you thought left you years ago decide to show up again? Clara has always known one way to live, and that gets ruined, so how is she supposed to cope with the change? She has taught herself everything else in life, so this can't be any different, can it? "There is no book about independence and there is no book about dependence. You have to write it yourself; you have to be the one that lives through it" Clara was that girl in class, when she was asked about relatives or family members, she always said she had none. Everyone believed her because she never had anyone there, not like it mattered to her or any of them. "It was you had lost someone, or that was what I thought about whenever someone asked about my siblings and the rest of my family. I didn't know who they were, and they didn't know who I was. I mean, I didn't know me either" Clara grew up without them as they grew up without her, so what will they do when a wave rocks the worlds they live in? "I heard her screams, Colt, I heard them. You weren't the one to hear the screaming and crying of your baby sister, it was me, and I knew there was nothing I could do to stop it. I couldn't save her" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Started: 9.03.22 Finished: -
Older Brothers | ✔ by peachynamjooni
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After her mother's death Lilith gets a new legal guardian, her older brother. With no knowledge of having four other older brothers, Lilith is send to live with them. But Lilith has her own demons to deal with, will she have the strength to take care of the demons of her brothers as well. #1 in school (01.05.20) #1 in broken (09.06.20) #1 in overprotective (13.04.20) #1 in sister (20.05.20) #1 in newschool(05.05.20) #1 period (05.05.20) #1 in brother (13.06.20) #1 in bigbrother(s) (13.06.20)
Survivor  by Ruqhaven
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"When you learn to survive without anyone, you can survive anything." Giovanna Parker, or should I say Accardi? A 14 year old girl who has it tough. On the receiving end of abuse, having to take care of a younger sibling at such a tender age herself, she is well acquainted with the word hardships. She is living proof of the word, that is... until the Accardi's come into the picture. The Accardi's Rich, powerful, well known. Just 3 mere words to describe them. The one that matters most to Giovanna? Family The Accardi's are Giovanna's biological family and after 14 years apart, they don't waste a moment in the matter of bringing her home. A 14 year old with a lot of baggage including a 9 year old sister. The Accardi's who consist of 7 males and 2 females. An independent teenager, who lives life solo. A family who want nothing more than her trust. But with the secrets each of them bare...its going to be tough. Family isn't just laughter and fun times, its hard work and pain. Just how much of pain, is the real question. How many secrets, lies and troubles will they go through to survive the outcome? To stand as one in the end. After all... "some of us aren't living, we surviving." ____________________________________ >on-going ©Ruqhaven 2022 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Highest rankings: #1 in Family #1 in Dad #1 in bestfriends #1 in Stepsister #1 in Stepmum #1 in Giovanna #1 in Americanmafia #1 in sarcasm #2 in Teenager #2 in Home #2 in cousins #4 in Secrets #4 in Littlesister #4 in Italian #4 in mafiaprincess #5 in protective
Three Brothers by -ghostlystyles
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"I wish you were never born!" Ryan screamed, tears freely gliding down both our cheeks, his hand shaking in what seemed to be anger. "I told you to stay the fuck away from me, from all of us." "Fine!" I gulped, raising my voice just as loud, creating an even bigger gap in front of us, this wasn't the Ryan I loved. No this was someone entirely different. " 'Family' is the mud on your shoe when it comes to you three!" Lucas and Blake shook on the sides of Ryan, they seemed equally as angry yet with a tinge of helplessness in their eyes. "I hate you," I continued when none of them spoke up. "You guys would've been better off dead!" I screamed, before storming into my room and slamming the door behind me as the whole house shook. What have I become? What have they become? Who were we? Elainy Saphrano, a timid girl with a heart of gold but a mouth of fire. One more year before her brothers go off to college, one more year of tears, pain, and torment-- yet it goes deeper than that. Growing up as the only girl in the family of three boys, she was always treated like a princess until blood, murders, drugs, and secrets started getting involved and her brothers switched up their colors real quick. In a blink of an eye, they despised her and she felt nothing but the same. What happened? Is there something more than the Saphrano brothers are letting on? Is Elainy actually despised? Are the Saphrano triplets more than they show on the surface? Three brothers, one sister, four siblings. What could go wrong? Read to find out :) 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦 2020 #1 in sibling rivalry 2/13/20 #2 in bigbrothers 1/30/20 #1 in trust issues 3/6/20 #1 in siblings 3/27/20 #1 in siblingbonding 3/28/20 #1 in bonding 4/2/20 #1 in siblings 13/6/20 #1 in sister 23/4/20 #2 in triplets on 4/5/20 #1 in sisterandbrother 19/6/20 #1 in hatred 25/8/20 #2 in teenagers 7/10/20 *Book cover bel
A Blooming Rose  by va_18x
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Book #3 of the Rose series Everly and Mason have had the most beautiful love story. Not only have they had each other to support them with every step in their life, they've also had a beautiful family right behind them, catching them when they fall. They're no longer teenagers, they're 20 years old and adults loving the college life. With a few twists and turns of course. I mean, would it really be a story about Everson if there weren't? Cover by: @qivine
The Lost Child | ✍🏼 by ikc_writes
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Savanah Rodriguez was the child that was forgotten. But what happens if there was two children who had a loving home. But not everything is about love. One child was kidnapped at the age of 5, never to be seen again. The family does not speak of this, as they just want to forget they ever had two 'perfect' daughters. 10 years later, a car accident occurs, involving the cousins, but someone in particular. Juan Rodriguez; the twin that was left behind and sent to boarding school. Who knew that being sent back to boarding school after a traumatic car accident would find something that had been missing for 10 years? All Juan had ever wanted was for his twin sister to be brought back home, but his family closed the case years ago, deeming her dead without even seeing her body. But who knew that one semester at boarding school could bring this family down from the lies they had been building on for years. Only some people will be able to tell the truth from the lies they keep telling eachother; even the ones that they tell themselves when they look at themselves in the mirror. No one knew that one car accident made everything change that night. --------------------------------------------------------------- "Who knew that the girl that wore the hoodie every day was someone who meant the world to me" "I wish that I was someone else. Someone that was loved" "Before you know it, you'll be coming back to boarding school with me and Alvaro because they think we are troubled, but if they paid enough attention to us, they would know who we are" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *TW: mentions of drugs, abuse, neglection and many other topics will be mentioned in this book and may not be suitable for everyone* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Started: 7.09.22 Finished: This is the second book in the series. Reading the first book is recommended before reading this one.
silent by islaholland
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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
The Blackwells by _b00ksandb0ba_
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SEQUEL TO GENESIS Read to follow The Blackwell cousins as they navigate through college, high school, secrets, drama, love, betrayal and a whole ass Mafia. (Most boring, shittiest description ever^)
Facade by polluxo
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Alejandra Martinez had a perfect life until she lost her mom and childhood to a violent tragedy that she witnessed. As a result, her dad fell into many patterns of abuse, leaving her to deal with the aftermath of it all. She continued life as best as she could with little hope for anything and trust in absolutely nothing, turning into someone her mother wouldn't recognize, doing whatever she needs to do to cope as well as to protect herself. During her junior year at Lower East Side High School, she meets Gabriel Santiago. He's known throughout the halls for his association with the most dangerous gang in the city, as well as his ice cold demeanor, all at the age of 17. He's as heartless as it gets - at least that's what everyone thinks. The two know nothing about each other. Despite that, they can't seem to hate each other more. But as time goes on, and they continue to cross paths, something changes. They begin to realize that there's a whole different side of the other that nobody knows about, yet it's the side that they might not hate about one another. That's what makes it even more complicated. As they each dig deeper past the facade the other has created over years of tragedy and destruction, it becomes dangerous for everyone involved. 𝓡𝓐𝓝𝓚𝓘𝓝𝓖𝓢 - 2023 # 1 : 𝔲𝔤𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 # 2 : 𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔫 # 1 : 𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔞𝔡𝔢
Little Sunshine | ✓ by LissyLisafou10
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"𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝'𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐧." ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ Alaska Hades had six older brothers, a loving father and an abusive mother. She was hiding away in the shadows, fearing that her mother would hurt anyone else as well if she didn't keep her mouth shut. But after a horrific accident, Alaska was blamed for something she had never done and was sent to a boarding school for delinquents. Away from her family, away from her home, away from everyone she had once loved. After five years of dealing with the betrayal and pain on her own, Alaska was forced to return to her old home. With a dysfunctional family, new family additions, her mother's death, familiar faces of old friends and a certain bad boy in school, that everyone warns to stay away from, Alaska is in for a time like no other. Will her family ever find out the truth? And if they do, will it be too late? Or will she become their Little Sunshine again? - 𝙉𝙊 𝙎𝙀𝙓𝙐𝘼𝙇 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙉𝙏! 𝙏𝙍𝙄𝙂𝙂𝙀𝙍𝙒𝘼𝙍𝙉𝙄𝙉𝙂: 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵; 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩; 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦; 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨; 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯.