after her mother's death, sora is sent to live with three half-brothers she's never known, counting down the days until she turns eighteen and can leave it all behind. then one night, something happens. something that breaks her skin open, leaving her exposed and raw. a wound no one can see. except the brother who has disliked her since she arrived and the girl she's been forced to partner with for a class project.

When Valentina is offered a job overseas that she can't afford to turn down, she makes the decision to leave her seventeen-year-old daughter, Lydia, in the care of her father - Lionel. Though Lydia has seen him once a year growing up, Lionel is still mostly a stranger to her. That sense of unfamiliarity deepens when she arrives in his quiet small town, only to discover he has a new family she's never heard about. Finding out Lionel has a daughter is just as hard for his new family-his wife and stepchildren. Especially his stepsons, who resent having a stranger in their home. Their growing dislike for Lionel comes from the belief that he's not good enough for their mother.

(Previously known as The Lost) Betrayal is nothing new to the Łabanowski siblings. Neither is abandonment. So when the eldest two disappear on the triplets' tenth birthday, it really shouldn't take them by surprise. Five years later: the remaining eight are all grown up and trying to move on with their lives when, suddenly, it is announced that the family will be reuniting. No one will be welcoming the brothers home with open arms, that's for sure, but when threats become reality and lives are at stake, they will be forced to put aside their differences once and for all.

Young, innocent and always well-organized Hailie Monet under sad circumstances finds out about the existence of her five older, disgustingly rich, possessive and spoiled brothers. When she's forced to live with them, she discovers that their life is full of dangerous secrets which they are going to do their best to hide, especially from their little sister.

At just eight years old, Isabella Parker was pulled away from everything she knew - her four older brothers, childhood friends, the only home she'd ever have. Her parents had divorced, and she moved to New York with her Dad to start over. Visits were planned. Contact with her brothers was promised. Neither of which, ever happened. Seven years later, Izzy is fourteen and being dragged back to the place she once called home, forced to reunite with the boys she resents. Caught between a life she doesn't recognise, and the chaos of first love, Izzy must navigate new wounds and break old loyalties, while trying not to fall apart in the process. #1 in sibling bond #1 in sister bond #1 in brother bond #1 in mummyissues #1 in dysfunctional family #1 in new school

"And selfishly, it still wasn't enough to make me stay." ~~~ Three months ago, Cassidy Rhodes hit her breaking point. After a childhood of tragedy and turmoil, raising herself and her little brother, Cassie fell into the depths of depression and made a decision that would change her life forever. After spending the last three months in a children's psych ward, Cassie expects to go back to the dingy apartment she's lived in all her life with her Mom and little brother. But what she doesn't expect is for a strange man, who claims to be her long-lost brother, to be the one to bring her to an unfamiliar home with not one, but seven strangers who claim to be her unknown family, she's never met in 12 years of being on her own. Cassie has always thought her future would be nothing a but premedicted teenage-tragedy. An inevitability. But with new, unforeseen changes rattling her self admittedly meritless life, the future has never seemed less set in stone for Cassie Rhodes. Started: July 5th 2021 Finished:

"We fought an uphill battle. One we had no hope of winning." ~~~ Felicity-Flick as most call her-Carter, has learned a thing or two in her 12 years of life. How to deal with drunk parents without waking the neighbors, how to smoke a cigarette without burning your fingers, and how to be abandoned by your siblings without losing your mind. All skills acquired through heartbreak and survival. Cigarette smoke filled lungs, late night talks on rooftops, make up most of who Flick is. But when her fractured family begins to mend itself, Flick is faced with a new chapter in her life that involves the very people she never wanted to see again. Started: January 10th 2021 Finished: December 2nd 2021

The Cortello - D'Angelo brothers, my older brothers. I've never met them, they've never known me. Then everything changes in the blink of an eye and suddenly the Cortello - D'Angelo brothers are the only thing that I know. God help me." *** Adrian is content with the life she has. Her dad is the only family she needs. Not the only family she has, but the only family she needs. One days changes everything for her. Her world is flipped on its axis, her life is vastly different to what it was before. How will she survive? *** "We were never meant to know her. It was made abundantly clear that we stay away because all we brought was problems. Suddenly we have no option, we can't just stay away. Everything is changing for us all. God help us." *** The brothers were...fine with their lives. Fame and fortune, an abundance of anything and everything they could want. They had everything, except Adrian. A sudden and drastic change forces her to meet them, finally. And subsequently, everything else changes. How will they survive?

❝We are never going to be family.❞ • • • Three half-siblings, living in different situations, with enough hate to kill each other. By some joke of the universe, they find themselves in the same city. Meeting again under shitty circumstances, with a lot of shitty issues, they get themselves into more trouble than they are ready for. What happens when everything goes to hell in one single night and they run into each other on the corner of sixth street at half-past three? Well, gasoline never did go well with a raging fire, but they never did care if the world burned. ▫▫▫▫ ▫▫▫▫ ▫▫▫▫ Cover is made by me. Copyright © 2021 Josie Marie Any relation to other stories or characters is entirely coincidental and not intentional. Any credit for the #olderbrother trend goes to its appropriate writers/creators. All of my work is original, inspired by the #olderbrother trend.

Stella Burns do not exist. There is no trace of her out there. Her name is unknown. Her existence is a ghost. She is hidden and sheltered from the cruel world that is desperate to eat away each shed of innocence and naiveté, which makes everything Stella Burns is. She is a child untouched by the world. But as always, the world catches up to everybody, even sweet Stella. Her whole safe world is shattered when she witnesses the first cruel reality. When her dear protector dies, she has no choice but to navigate her own path out into the outside world full of evil. She finds her brothers on a stormy day at a mansion doorstep. Once she steps in, her world shifts entirely, with her new protectors standing behind her back.