The family's mother seemingly ran away 8 months before the triplets were born. Though their family missed her after searching for a year they gave up and realized that she did not want to be found never knowing about the triplets. She had the triplets and gave them away to a kind man and his wife at 6 their father died and their adoptive mother started to bring her boyfriends around. These boyfriends helped their mother become a drug addict and they started the abuse to the young kids. The kids moved around a lot growing up living wherever their mother's boyfriend was living and later with their step-father where the abuse got worse when they were 10 years old. Throughout their lives, the three were abused and tortured in every way. When the triplets are 15 their mother and step-father are killed leaving the triplets alone and after a DNA test by social services, they get sent to their father and brothers meeting them for the first time. This book was taken down so this is the edited version

BOOK #1 IN THE DEVALDI SERIES 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.

#1 in possesive 21/11/23 #1 in onlygirl 25/11/23 #1 in newschool 02/01/24 12/05/2025 26/10/2025 13/11/2025 #1 in youngest 21/02/24 #2 in overprotectivebrothers 19/09/24 #1 in shy 22/09/24 #1 in cliche, #2 in onlygirl, #3 mafiabrrothers 19/12/24 #2 in mafia 07/03/2025 #1 in cliche 02/12/2025 05/12/2025 #1 in newschool 31/12/2025 01/01/2026 02/01/2026 #1 in shy, #1 in onlygirl 10/02/2026 #1 in father-daughter 05/05/2026 #1 in siblings 17/06/2026 #1 in cute 05/07/2026 #1 in italian 07/08/2026 Kyrie Sage Arena is a sweet girl with a kind heart and a quiet nature, always willing to help. Yet, she has spent her life deprived of love and care, always alone. Will she finally learn what it means to be cherished? The Romano's rule New York City with an iron grip-ruthless, arrogant, and feared by many. They can have anything they desire, except true happiness. Will they ever find the one thing their power cannot give them?

AVELINE AMOUR DE LUCA Was two when she and her triptlets ware involved in an accident where her parents died and they were kidnapped from they're brothers. They were kidnaped from the spanish mafia- They tortured and trained and made them become an assassin but one day when she was ten she had enough and killed the boss and became the mafia queen of spain. Although she was young she was capable and merciless. Aveline after she killed the spanish don had no guardian so she was shifted from one foster home to another. Now Aveline is sixteen whit a set of quadruplets of 8 months and pays her foster family to keep them quiet. But one day her foster parents died and the police told her that she has brothers that want to take her in. VINCENZO DE LUCA Was seventeen when his parents died and his younger sibilings went missing- So when he turned eighteen he decided to take custody of his younger brothers and start searching for his missing sibilings. Now Vincenzo is thirty-one and have a child on his own. One day he received a call from LA police department if he want to take custody of his sibilings.

Angelina Brown grew up in a serene world, surrounded by the love of her mother, Liliana, and the devotion of her horse, Amira. She found Amira when she was just an abandoned foal in the forest, and from that moment on, they were inseparable. Together, they ran across the endless fields, living in a harmony no one could disturb. But her childhood wasn't always like this. In the past, Angelina experienced suffering at the hands of her biological father, a cruel and abusive man who turned her early years into a nightmare. At just four years old, she watched her mother being beaten every night. Only his sudden departure brought peace, and her mother did everything she could to give her a new life, far from the darkness of those days. Everything changes again when Liliana confesses that she has fallen in love and that they must move into her new husband's home. Angelina is forced to leave behind the place she cherishes and live alongside a strict stepfather and his five sons. In this new household, the gentle and dreamy girl is met with disdain. The coldness of this family weighs heavily on her, and her only solace remains Amira and her mother. But her greatest nightmare returns when her biological father suddenly reappears, this time determined to take her away from her mother. Claiming that, as a minor, she belongs to him, he demands his "right" over her. But Angelina knows the truth-he doesn't want her because he loves her, but because he wants to control her once again. Will she be able to escape the past that haunts her? Can she find her place in this hostile new family, or is she destined to wander between two worlds, never truly belonging anywhere? Discover Angelina's story of survival, courage, and the power of a pure heart in a cruel world. #1 daughterfather 16.04.2025

I used to believe monsters lived under the bed. Now I know better. They wear human skin. The chains bite into my wrists again as I try to squirm, but I don't cry anymore. Crying makes it worse. Crying makes me weak. That's what he says, anyway. "Big girls don't cry," he sneers, dragging the blade slowly across my stomach. "You're not a baby anymore, are you?" I try to be silent. I try to be still. But the pain makes my body twitch. The blood trickles like warm tears down my ribs. I squeeze my eyes shut and pray for the darkness to swallow me whole. It doesn't. I wish I could remember my mother's voice. My father's face. My brothers- Were they even real? Or just dreams I invented to survive? Time doesn't exist here. Only pain. And him. He says my name like it's a curse: Alessia. He tells me pain is my teacher. That fear will become my friend. That one day, I'll thank him for turning me into something more than a girl. He's wrong. I'm not more than a girl. I'm something else entirely. Because one day, I stop praying for the pain to end. I start learning from it. One day, I take the knife from his hand. One day, he bleeds. That's the day I stop being Alessia, the little girl. And I become something far worse.

Life is difficult. That's no secret. It's something that Marlowe learned at a young age. At 17 years old, she is an accomplished student and one of the underworld's most feared assassins. Though, it's not as nice as it seems. She is desperate for a way out. And eventually she finds one through the Italian Mafia. Is it the most conventional? No. But is it better than her current situation? Also most likely no. But seeing as it make her life something more than just killing, she jumps at the first chance she gets. Marlowe quickly learns that secrets in mafia families run deeper than she will ever realize. And perhaps she discovers a little more than she was expecting.

She hated them. They loved her with everything in them. The universe truly has a sick way of telling you it's there, doesn't it? From being kidnapped to being abused, that was all Arabella saw in life. It was all she ever knew. They tell you to keep fighting but sometimes you realize... you were just a child. Now she's built herself up using her pain as the next step to her strength. She's learnt how to strive forward even as her past haunts her mind crawling up her back every passing second. That is until the first 7 people who only ever brought her pain find their way back into her life. She has no way to let go of her past when they come right back to her. The world showed her no mercy in it's ways so why should she. ~~~ I let out a small sigh wanting more of this. I wanted to be held like this whenever I felt broken. Feel the way he puts me back together in his arms. It ate at my heart and I could have sworn I felt a feathery kiss on my head. It was as if he could hear my thoughts and was kissing them away for me. Slowly he lets one hand go, the other staying around me as he brings my chin up to him gently wiping my last tears as more fill my eyes. He sees this and his eyes look... crumbled. If you feel this way then why can't you choose me, Dominic. I shake my head from his hands wishing to step back but he pulls me back to him a pain filled groan leaving him. "Just one more minute. Please." His body shook and I brought him closer, feeling our pain become one. Our hurricanes of minds pull away even for the smallest time letting us stand together as one in each other's embrace. He was it for me. But I wasn't his.

Carter was stuck living with her abusive mother and step-father. She felt like she was living in a never ending cycle of sadness. It wasn't until her stepfather was murdered by her mother that she was taken out of the toxic household. Carter was placed with her four brothers, brothers she didn't even know she had. Her mother took her at a young age, so young that she didn't remember her brothers at all. But they remember her, they never stopped looking for her. Carter has a lot of secrets, secrets she intends to keep. Will she be able to keep her past hidden?

"I'm sorry. I'm really really sorry. pl-please can I have my glasses back. I-i-i promise I'll be a good girl" "tsk tsk Layla. You've lost the privilege to wear them. Only good girls get to have their glasses, and you haven't been a good fucking girl have you?" 9 year old Layla Atwell has learned the hard way the do's and don't's of living under the rules and punishments of her foster family. She has learned how to survive at the hands of two cruel parents, who find enjoyment in seeing Layla in pain. She lives in fear and pain, not knowing the first thing about how to love or to be loved. She survives each day, staying quiet, obedient and keeping herself small. Until a certain teacher starts to notice some odd behavior. What will Mrs Williams do when she starts noticing that Layla is falling behind. Top Rankings #1 Scars #2 fear #1 learning #2 Abused #3 struggling #3 foster kid #1 dad #1 foster #2 abuse #10 adoption #3 adopted (Description is crap- but please give it a shot haha) - Maddiey_Madz