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.

Aurora has spent her entire life on a small farm in Montana, helping her grandfather harvest peas, lentils and wheat and learning the value of hard work, perseverance and loyalty. But when her grandfather can no longer care for her, he goes to the extreme and calls her father - a very powerful man who hasn't the slightest idea that he even has a daughter. Now Aurora must move to a city filled with luxury, privilege, and hidden rivalries, where she has to find her place among her new half-brothers she never knew she had. Facing a world so different from the one she's always known, Aurora must navigate intense expectations, complex family dynamics, and her own place in a life she never imagined. How will she handle this new reality, and can she find her own strength along the way?

Eli has spent fifteen years being fine. No father, no history, no last name that means anything-just a foster placement in Kansas, a job he wasn't supposed to have, and a very specific list of foods he can eat without his body staging a protest. Fine. Manageable. His. But somehow, hitting a wine bottle at a customer leads him to a family and a home he doesn't recognize. Aleksandr Volkov has spent twelve years looking for his youngest son. He was not prepared for what fifteen years of fine looks like up close. ➜ cover by @sugararmy07

"𝐎𝐡, 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞. 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞. 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐈'𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮." -𝐄𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞 & 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐬 ✧⁂✧ 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐆-𝟏𝟑 [𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲]

For twelve years, Astrid Vale has lived in the shadows. Overlooked, forgotten, and alone. Then, without warning, five men arrive at her door. Brothers. Suddenly swept into a family she never knew, Astrid is taken to a home filled with wealth, power... and secrets buried deep in its walls. But the more she learns about the brothers- and the reason they came for her now- the clearer it becomes that being found may be far more dangerous than being forgotten.

𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙔 𝙎𝘼𝙔 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙎𝙀𝙓 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚-𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙣'𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡. One blooms in sweat-soaked sheets, the other in blood-soaked earth. The difference? One's a whisper, the other, a scream. SPINOFF (Ryder & Carmello) #1 Gayness 11/08/2025 #1 Alphaxomega 11/16/2025

𝘚𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢, 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘙𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵, 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴-𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘺: 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘰 𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪. Book 2 Book 1: Daddy Issues. Spinoff: Rough Ryder

Caleb was lost and had been for as long as he could remember. He tried to walk the path his parents wanted, but he couldn't see it through the darkness. With his brothers away for college everything became worse. The once warm home felt ice cold, the halls devoid of sound and his life devoid of colour. Then he bumped into Lucas. His long time neighbour who he was certain only saw him as his best friends little brother. Until he didn't. Until Lucas inserted himself further into Caleb's life, getting closer to him than anyone had ever been. Too close. Or maybe that's just what Caleb needed, someone to see more than what was on the surface. Maybe the love he sought was right there in front if him, and so was the help he needed. --- *This is a bxb that deals with sensitive themes, religion, and mature subjects. Read with care. It's also a really. really slow burn.* Slow updated, but still updating (promise)! No AI was involved at any point in the writing of this story.

Graham Coleman has never been invisible. Everyone knows his name at school, on the field, in every room he walks into. They just never really see him. Raised in a house where attention only comes when something goes wrong, Graham learned early that it's easier to act like he doesn't care than admit no one ever cared first. Neglected, controlled, and always on the outside looking in, he's spent his whole life surviving alone. Everything changes when his father is arrested for fraud, leaving Graham with nowhere to go. With no one else willing to take him in, the call goes to the only family he has left, the older half-brother he's never met. Rhys Coleman wants nothing to do with his father's new family, or the spoiled kid he assumes Graham must be. But with emancipation only three months away, he agrees to let Graham stay... temporarily. Rhys doesn't want him. Graham doesn't know how to be wanted. What starts as an obligation turns into something neither of them expected, as two brothers with completely different lives realize they never knew the truth about each other. But some damage runs deep, and some people learn to be alone so well they don't know how to stop. A story about being seen but never known, about family that comes too late, and about whether love can fix what was broken long before anyone noticed.

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.