📖 Title: Against Her Walls ✨ Tagline: She built them high. He's not afraid to climb. 📜 Description: You've read grumpy × sunshine before - but this time, it's sunshine × grumpy. She believes love is overrated. He believes she's wrong - and he's not afraid to say it. She's the grumpy eldest daughter, carrying the weight of her family and guarding her heart like it's a national secret. He's the golden youngest son, and refuses to let her carry the burden alone. Will Khushi finally give the sunshine a chance... ? Will Agastya be the one to break her walls for good?

"let's give this girl six older brothers" they said "it will be fun" they said um... whoever "they" is, really wanted to see me struggle!

Kalina never knew much about her family, only that she had brothers, a mother and a father who never wanted her. After the abuse her mother put her through, Kalina was broke beyond repair. With the help from a motorcycle gang she built herself back up. One day, she gets taken out of her cell in juvie, to find out her mother had died. Being seventeen, her father has come to take her home. Where she learns he was unaware of her existence. Kalina must learn to depend on others and adapt to a life of safety and security all children should have. And her family must learn to hide their mafia from a girl who means the world to them. Kalina, however, is not as innocent as they think. Her past is dark and catching up to her fairly quick. What happens when she meets a certain man, who will change the course of her life forever. (This book is full of uncomfortable and triggering content, please be careful while reading)

New York never slept, but that night, the Ricci household did. The penthouse, usually filled with laughter, music, and the scent of fresh espresso, had fallen into an eerie silence. The soft hum of the baby monitor sat unnoticed on the bedside table. No one heard the creak of the nursery door. No one noticed the absence of breath from the bassinet. By morning, the world had changed. Three year old Alessandro Ricci was gone. The first scream came from Valentina, the eldest daughter. She was the one who found the empty crib, the soft blue blanket discarded on the floor. Then came the chaos-the panic in their father's voice as he barked orders in rapid Italian, the trembling in their mother's hands as she clutched the baby's last-worn onesie. The police swarmed in, news cameras soon followed, and for days, the Ricci's were a family under siege. A family in mourning. Days turned into weeks. Weeks into months. The trail went cold. The whispers began-speculations, doubts, cruel insinuations that an influential family like theirs should have been able to protect their own. But the Ricci's knew the truth. Someone had taken Alessandro. And three years later, as the city moved on, they never did. Because somewhere out there, their baby brother was waiting to come home.

When a 15 year old girl gets stolen by her mother as a child she is forced to live with her abusive mom and stepdad. She is told of an accident resulting in the deaths of her mum and stepdad and she has a completely different family somewhere else around the world. Her dad and brothers have been looking for her ever since she was stolen at the age of 5 and when they receive the call informing them of her whereabouts they find their lives turned upside down. They are hiding a big secret while living under the same roof. However, she is also hiding a secret. The real question is will they except each other after finding each other's secrets? Should she go live with them? How will she cope with her 5 new brothers and dad who have all missed her and have been looking for her? Do they actually love her? Will they abuse her like her mom? Why were they not living together? How many lies and secrets are kept from each other in this house? All the truths be revealed as you read this book. #1 found #1 weapons #1 familysecrets #1 lost #1 guns #1 longlostsister #1 drugs #1 cousins #familysecrets #2 stolen #2 drama #3 Italian #3 siblings #5 interesting #11 mafiaprincess 1k - 11/1/22 10k - 21/1/22 100k - 11/2/22 150k - 21/2/22 200k - 27/2/22 300k - 06/3/22 400k - 16/3/22 500k - 28/3/22 600k - 06/4/22 700k - 19/4/22 800k - 29/4/22 900k - 16/5/22 1Mil? - 26/5/22 1.5M - 6/8/22 2Mil - 23/10/22 Started 1/1/22 All the pictures are from Pinterest

Book One of the Fire and Ice Series Stolen as infants. Raised in two worlds. Reunited by blood and secrets. Twins Marina and Lukas were taken from their father and brothers, leaders of the Italian mafia, before they could even crawl. Raised by their mother in hiding, everything changes the day she dies... and the twins are sent back to the family they never knew. At first, it's almost perfect. A family reunited. A sense of belonging. But peace never lasts in a world built on violence. When Marina is accused of a betrayal she didn't commit, her silence protects the guilty-and costs her everything. Banished and broken, the soft girl disappears. Eighteen months later, she returns hardened, unrecognizable, and hell-bent on never trusting anyone again. Now the past won't stay buried. Lies are cracking. And the truth? It might tear them all apart. Can a fractured family rebuild what was lost, or will blood loyalty be the thing that finally destroys them? Secrets will be exposed. Lines will be crossed. And Marina must decide. Does she want revenge... or a family worth fighting for?

Valda Giordano has been living her life as Amara Williams because that was who she was because she didn't know there was a Valda. She grew up with her mother and stepfather, everything was perfect until her mother became pregnant and her once-loving stepfather left them with nothing. Now caring for her 6-month-old baby brother and a mother with postpartum psychosis. Struggling with school and two jobs to care for her brother and afford her mother's treatments. Her mother becomes someone else she doesn't know, and she is lost. And Amara also has to deal with a life-threatening condition. After her mother's tragic death, leaving her and her baby brother, she finds out her mother kept a whole other family from her. Now with 5 brothers and a father she didn't know existed. She has to navigate through her new life and trauma that she is desperate to keep hidden. And learn how to be Valda Giordano that she used to be, all in order to keep her baby brother safe. Turns out she isn't the only one with secrets. Follow Valda and her family through the dangers that follow them. Running from death that wants them in its grasp, but nothing can happen to a Giordano, right? Started: 02/05/2025 Finished: ??? This is a lost sister story, xx #1 Father-daughter #7 family issues #14 brothers #26 Family

⚠️THIS STORY IS OLD. IT ISN'T VERY GOOD. THE OTHER BOOK IS BETTER⚠️ Adeline was a good kid. She worked hard, took care of herself, and didn't let anybody push her around. At least that's what the kids at school thought. But, like most people, she had secrets. Things nobody knew about her. Nobody knew her mother and stepfather hated her. Nobody knew she lived alone with her best friend. Nobody knew that, outside of school, she was a totally different person. Nobody knew what she had been through, and all the things that left her shattered. This is how she lived her life. This is the only life she had ever known. But what would happen if all of that changed? Could one school lecture, a mishap at the courthouse, and a DNA test change her life forever? For the better or for the worst, Adeline's life is about to change. And for once in her life, she might not have to keep so many secrets. ********************************* Started: 6/18/2022 Finished: 7/29/2022 © 2022 Taylor Sassone Cover by my awesome sister @owlhootsburger13

[Not been edited since 2020, re-uploaded in 2024 after an accidental takedown] Lila was always running. Running from what? Life, Being adopted, All sorts. Ever since she was a little toddler, life has never been easy. She can't remember the last time she hadn't run away from being fostered. She never had a stable home or a stable family. She never really liked staying in one place too long but the one thing that stayed the same was the feeling of loneliness and abandonment. She build her walls sky high, with only the chosen few able to slip past. But even they couldn't go too far. She was always known as the 'Silent Girl' the one who no one goes near unless they wanted to go missing. People at her school believe she's a part of the most dangerous gangs The Vipers. They're not far from the truth. What happens when she learns of her unknown family? The same as her, They all aren't innocent and have secrets of their own they're purposely hiding.