After the sudden death of her mother, thirteen-year-old Rayna Elise Moretti is sent to live with three older half-brothers she barely knows-Jax, Tate, and Cade-at their heavily secured estate on the outskirts of the city. What begins as an awkward, uncertain reunion quickly unravels into a tangled web of secrets, silence, and shadowy truths. The brothers are hiding something. They're overprotective, vague, and bound together by something darker than blood. When Rayna's curiosity leads her to a series of discoveries-cryptic phone calls, off-limits buildings, and coded maps-she realizes the truth: her family is deeply tied to a hidden world of organized crime. Despite orders to stay out of it, Rayna refuses to be kept in the dark.

{𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 1} 𝒁𝒊𝒏𝒂 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔 Is the girl no one really noticed. She hides her face- with all the horrid bruises present- behind a facade, and makes sure no one suspects a single thing about the hell she's met with at her home with her 'parents'. Sure, when she gets in trouble or someone picks on her, she can defend herself perfectly fine with the way she does illegal fights and wins time after time. But it's when she's utterly alone, and locked up in her personal hell that she doesn't dare to speak up or say a thing. It's when the voices get through her that she cowers away in the shadows and doesn't dare to come out. Not even when her own life is in danger does she uses everything she's learned from that special boy with the mesmerizing smile and the kind reassuring eyes. Zina lives in her own shadows and deals with her own demons, but what happens when a random boy on a random day, decides to show more interest in her than anyone ever did? What if he tells her something that'll change her whole life?And what happens if that particular boy claims to be related to her? And is blood really thicker than water? Can her 5 caring brothers pull her out of her own shadows and free her from the voices calling her back? Or will she give in and be a danger to everyone around her? ---- "Don't break her heart." I suddenly hear Lucas speak up next to me. "How did you know?" I ask him. "The eyes. Everything you feel for her is displayed in your eyes." He answers me and I nod slowly. "I won't." I say quietly to him. "You won't what?" He says, wrinkling his brows in confusion. "Break her heart." I finish saying. I see him nod from the corner of my eyes, contemplating on what to say next. "Good." ---- No incest, nor cheating in this book!

Elena Richards-Russos and Lucy Richards grew up in an abusive home with an abusive man. When Elena is 13 and Lucy is 5 they finally get taken away by social workers and are put into Elena's birth family's house. Elena has no idea they exist and has not known that she's been missing for 12 years due to her birth mother running away with her when she was only one. Elena is very skittish to this new environment and people to the point where she struggles to let them in even though she soon comes to realize they would never hurt her or Lucy emotionally or physically. Read "We Survived" to find out how Elena changes throughout the chapters.

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. Self-harm. Death, and more.

Emilia Costello's life has been nothing but pain and darkness since she was taken as a baby. When she is discovered after years of unimaginable abuse, she is reunited with the brothers she never knew she had. The Costello brothers, deeply entrenched in the dangerous world of the mafia, will do anything to protect their fragile sister. But healing is a slow and painful journey. Emilia is terrified of her new world, her brothers are haunted by their failure to protect her, and their enemies are closing in. With every gentle word, every step forward, and every devastating setback, they learn what it means to hold on to hope-and to each other.

16 year old Chasity Armando lives a totally different life than her peers. She lives at home with an abusive mother and stepfather, being treated as a slave. While also taking care of her son. Although she has trouble at home, in school she's an excellent student. She makes sure to study hard and keep her grades up. She prays for a well paying career to give her son the life she never had. But that better life was coming sooner than expected. Her mother and stepfather tragically pass away . She's left by herself with her son. But little does she know she's about to meet her biological dad and her 6 brothers. Started: August 20th, 2023 Ended:

Enemies to lovers with a family twist! Alora Frank has been living her life under the abuse of her mother and father. Hiding secrets and unimaginable pain behind her perfect smile. Except one day she finds her father isn't her father, she had family in Italy, father and brothers. What will happen to her secret? Nicolo Rome the don of the Italian mafia. Most feared and cold hearted yet for his children the most sweetest and amazing father ever. What happens when he finds he has a daughter that he didn't know about.... what of their secrets? Secrets on both sides yet a flicker of hope still there... What happens when a certain guy comes in the picture? Read to find out...

18 years ago the Italian Mafias Princess disappeared, but what they don't know until too late is that she ran away. Sick of being shut out and kept quiet she decides to make a life for herself. Pregnant at 16 and married at 18 Jade and her husband Nikolai prosper together, making a family they both dreamed about. Until 18 years after her disappearance, she's spotted by someone working for her Father and Brothers. Secrets begin to unravel and the family has to stick together more than ever before. Because the Italian mafia has finally found the lost princess and she gives them a deal they can't refuse. *This story is purely fictional* *contains mystery and the found family trope*

*NOT FINISHED* I'm tired of fighting...... AMORA!" My uncle yells while i'm trying to open my eyes. I'm sitting in a the corner of the house with head in between my legs like a ball. He is beating me up. I'm feeling pain everywhere. He is kicking me hard. And then it stopped the kicks and the punches. "Get up you little bitch!" I hear your uncle yell And thats what my life is getting beaten up my my uncle or aunt its different each day. But then it all changed when i met an Italian man who says." Your gonna live with your brothers." I have 7 brothers who are really over protective. And i found out they are in a gang? Or gang a mafia gang. And thats not easy to be the only girl in the whole mafia family. Started: December 16th 2021 both languages english and italian etc. are not my mother language so i'm sorry. if there are some things not in the right place. Let me know when it is i'll make sure i change it!m

Story of a mafia princess who has been married to a mafia boss. Rather she has been sold to him. she has been abused by her parents. what will be awaiting there in my married life. But little did she knew that she was going to live with 5 grown men who will always protect her no matter what.