One last chance...... That's what she told herself again and again, because if your own family doesn't love you... you start hating yourself. Pale skin, blond almost white hair.... people will instantly start questioning because she looks nothing like her family. First it started with family members, then her own parents and then her siblings. She's breaking and no one sees it. All she has is the voices in her head, the drugs and the pain of being abandoned by the very people who were supposed to love her no matter what.

The Valentinos have always been a family full of energy and passion, but more often than not, these emotions get twisted into the wrong circumstances. What happens when a new face worms it's way inside the household, disturbing the familial foundation and most importantly, attempting to replace what, or who, was lost?

Four years ago, Valentina Coppola was erased from the life she used to know. Accused of pushing her twin sister down the stairs of their home, she was sent to a boarding school for ill mannered ladies in Stockholm. An academy shaped like a prison. Years after the fall, she is brought back to Italy so that amends can be made. Older. Sharper. And still helplessly hurt by what happened years ago, Valentina must learn to navigate life with the brothers that didn't believe her, a father who shipped her away, and a twin sister who hides behind a fabricated lie. This time, Valentina has secrets of her own.

❝ Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me. ❞ ☠︎ Three years ago, the small, gloomy coastal town of Laguna Bay was a twisted purgatory. A damp, backwater town alive only with immorality. They were it's sins. Kage Van Blair. Bodhi Makris. Vaughn Callaghan. Ilyas Kerr. They were stains. Bloody smears on a once quiet, elite community. Then, they disappeared, and the town memorialized them. Claimed not to have loved the trouble that they caused but to have loved them. Their Laguna Bay Angels. The investigation into their disappearance died fast. No evidence. No leads. The ocean beyond the coast began to calm, the same waters Ilyas Kerr was said to have drowned a man beneath stilled. Perhaps he was the real storm causing the waves to rage, to clash against the jagged rocks beneath the cliffs edge that had pulled more bodies under than we could ever know of. New evidence suggests he was. Because last night, the worst storm Laguna Bay has ever seen spit him out of the ocean. Now, my family is moving to Laguna Bay. Adrian Allard is the FBI's most qualified agent- if he can't find out where Ilyas Kerr has been for three years- no one can. I have an unshakable feeling, however. That this town is going to swallow what's left of us whole. And the mystery begins and ends with Ilyas Kerr, the washed up shark. I learn sooner rather than later that time has only sharpened his teeth.

Sage didn't know what it was like to be reborn, but River did. However, one thing they both knew was what it felt like to be ripped from everything they had ever known. Thrust into a world they've never known, they cling to belief, memory, and each other but as the outside world presses in, what once kept them grounded begins to fracture.

Belonging was only the beginning. Josephine St. Claire thought the hardest part of her journey was adjusting to life without her mother, life with the family she was never meant to know. But as she settles into their world, guarded secrets and buried truths beg to come to surface. [Book Two in The Turning Seasons Series]

"You wanna stay alive?" The old man asks, eyes fierce with conviction as he speaks to me, "Real world or underground, be aware of the Blacks, kid. It's the best advice one can give." I hide a grin. I live with them, after all. "Be aware?" I ask in response, "Not be beware?" "Both," The old man nods solemnly. ~~~ Alina Black, the eldest of the Black siblings, is consumed by the future. Aurora Black, the youngest and most unaware, is obsessed with the past. Both sisters wake up and go to sleep with the same word on their lips: survival. Their seven brothers stumble through the present, recklessly, in ignorance of the word. Finally reunited, the siblings must reckon not only with themselves and each other, but also the chaos of human existence - especially their family's extravagant, immoral one. ~~~ OR more briefly: The one where a long lost sister returns to her mafia family (by stalking them) with a very not cliche plot (right from the beginning, because she's proactive and stalks them) but some cliche moments that everyone loves (like the second oldest brother being the gentlest with her).

Sabrina Reindorf has a full proof two step plan for her year exchange to the prestigious Sterling Academy: get connected to the wealthiest kids of North America then get out. Sterling Academy is notoriously not known for its lack of theatrics. ______________________________ You love to hate his brother, you hate to love him. Reid Cathans isn't just different, he's sinful. His sister started it all, he's about to end it. Casteel Aster isn't just cunning, he's conniving. Before there was Caleb Delvaùx, he ran this school. Chase Westward isn't one of the many, he's the blueprint. There's a black sheep in every family. Chloe DuVall is the blackest of them all. Their siblings were bad, they are so much worse.

She's not getting mad. She's getting even. Lola Melese has it all: a great job, the worlds most entertaining best friend, a loving boyfriend and a squeaky clean reputation. That is until her all-australian boyfriend cheats. Now, Lola's regarded as the school-wide recognised 'pity party.' Eager to shake off the ill reputation, Lola's determination to live out the rest of her senior year without the pitying brand has her enter uncharted territory. Even as uncharted - as forming an alliance with Tate Bridgers, the brooding boy on Westgate High's basketball team and her best friends step brother.

Everyone at school is against her. Her best friend won't look her way. And the boy she once loved? He's all hers now. The kicker? Amos Whitaker was her bestfriend's boyfriend. But before that? He was hers.