Arden Landry wakes up in an alley believing he is fifteen years old, only to discover he is twenty-four and missing nine years of his life. His older brother, Ayven, has spent six years blaming Arden for the choices that brought dangerous people to their family's door. But the Arden who comes home bleeding and terrified remembers none of it. He only remembers loving Ayven, trusting him, and looking up to him. As a police investigation unfolds and secrets from Arden's missing years resurface, the brothers are forced into an impossible question: how do you forgive someone who does not remember becoming the person who hurt you? Before I Became Him is an emotional brotherhood drama about grief, memory, blame, protection, and finding a way forward when the past belongs to a stranger wearing your face.

"We fought an uphill battle. One we had no hope of winning." ~~~ Felicity-Flick as most call her-Carter, has learned a thing or two in her 12 years of life. How to deal with drunk parents without waking the neighbors, how to smoke a cigarette without burning your fingers, and how to be abandoned by your siblings without losing your mind. All skills acquired through heartbreak and survival. Cigarette smoke filled lungs, late night talks on rooftops, make up most of who Flick is. But when her fractured family begins to mend itself, Flick is faced with a new chapter in her life that involves the very people she never wanted to see again. Started: January 10th 2021 Finished: December 2nd 2021

❝We are never going to be family.❞ • • • Three half-siblings, living in different situations, with enough hate to kill each other. By some joke of the universe, they find themselves in the same city. Meeting again under shitty circumstances, with a lot of shitty issues, they get themselves into more trouble than they are ready for. What happens when everything goes to hell in one single night and they run into each other on the corner of sixth street at half-past three? Well, gasoline never did go well with a raging fire, but they never did care if the world burned. ▫▫▫▫ ▫▫▫▫ ▫▫▫▫ Cover is made by me. Copyright © 2021 Josie Marie Any relation to other stories or characters is entirely coincidental and not intentional. Any credit for the #olderbrother trend goes to its appropriate writers/creators. All of my work is original, inspired by the #olderbrother trend.

They left the mob behind. Normal life didn't get the memo. Luka wants a quiet senior year, Rico wants rules, and Dante wants chaos with plausible deniability. The only thing they all agree on? Staying low profile is harder when your instincts were built for war and your little brother keeps lighting the fuse. This is a reader-directed story, you get to help shape it, so jump in with me on the fun. This is a sequel to The Price For Blood. MxF relationships and family focused

For years, Luka believed his brothers were the reason his life always felt one wrong move away from blowing up. They were the danger. The threat. The shadow hanging over him. Then the secrets start spilling out, and the story flips. His brothers aren't the disaster he's been bracing for. They're the ones trying to keep it from swallowing him whole. The same men he's spent years fearing are suddenly the ones stepping in front of the worst of it, making choices that could cost them their lives just to keep him standing. It messes with Luka's head, because monsters aren't supposed to protect you. Trust doesn't come easy, but neither does survival. Somewhere between the lies, the secrets, and the close calls, Luka stops just trusting them. He starts counting on them. And in the process, he learns something that scares him almost as much as the truth about his family: He's more capable than he ever let himself believe. Love to hear from all the readers so please leave a comment. :) MxF relationships and family focused

Levi Tanner has a dilemma. He has a half brother he never knew existed, and now he's facing an impossible choice: step up and take him in after his mother is arrested and awaiting trial, or look the other way and keep his life simple. The thing is, Levi has never had a simple life. He knows what it feels like to be removed from a home after a parent is arrested. He knows what it means to feel helpless, homeless, and lost. But at sixteen, Levi found a home with Gavin and Nikki Navarro. Now, at twenty six, he's stepping into the same kind of role Gavin once stepped into for him. He's terrified he'll get it wrong, but Gavin is still by his side, and this sixteen year old kid needs Levi the way Levi once needed Gavin. Greyson Tanner is facing the hardest choice of all: testifying at his mother's trial. He isn't ready to relive that stormy night, but he may not have a choice. His testimony could help set his mother free, but telling the truth could destroy her future. And Greyson isn't sure he can live with that guilt.

West Side of the Story is a spinoff of What the Storm Left Behind, revealing how the boy readers first met as Grey Tanner's bully became the hero they later learned to love. Westley Harrison used to be Westbrook's golden boy, the star quarterback with the scholarship, the popularity, and the whole town cheering his name. But before he became the bully everyone hated, he was a grieving kid carrying the loss of the uncle who had always been his safest place and the guilt of believing that loss was his fault. With his father pushing him to be harder, stronger, and better than everyone around him, Westley buries the pain the only way he knows how. He turns it into anger. Into cruelty. Into power over someone who never deserved to become the target of everything broken inside him. Then his choices catch up with him. After the assault on Grey costs Westley his team, his scholarship, and the future he thought was already his, he's left facing the damage his grief and guilt caused. When his adult stepbrother Xander takes him in, Westley is forced to confront the truth behind the bully he became and decide whether he's brave enough to become someone better. This is West's side of the story. The side where grief and guilt turn a boy into a bully, accountability turns him toward healing, and becoming a hero starts with owning the hurt he caused.

At seventeen, Hayden Keppner is already a master at lying, stealing, and pretending he doesn't care. But when he discovers the wealthy Rivers family have been hiding him his whole life, he decides to lie his way into their world through Dakota Rivers, the youngest son. The plan was supposed to be simple: get close, get money, and never get attached. But Hayden discovers more than he bargained for. What was supposed to be a con starts feeling dangerously real, and the deeper Hayden gets, the harder it is to keep his lies from cracking. Because losing control was never part of the plan. Neither was wanting to stay with them. This book is about family and belonging.

Virion Kethlana was never meant to rule. Never mind that he was the first prince or that he trained for the role; it was not in his cards, at least not within this lifetime. But when a Great Assembly is called by the dragons of Colony, Virion must put aside his company of riches of splendour and attend on behalf of his faction. It would be a simple expedition, boring but simple... if not for the storm. Forced to land on the isle of a lone dragon, Virion must contend with the company of his new, disgruntled companion until the storm passes, that is, if he does not kill the annoying beast first. He calls himself Zirkhlon. Virion has never known another so rude or infuriating, nor one so disrespectful of his station. He loathes him for it, but when fires begin to stir, and neither knows how to quell the flames, well... stranger things have happened in Ythene's realm. But the storm will not last forever, and what will the pair do when the skies clear and new truths are revealed with it?

Ryan Navarro traveled eleven hundred miles to the one place he swore he wouldn't go. Gavin left to escape their father's escalating psychological abuse and never came back. No calls. No explanations. Just silence, and a new life Ryan was never invited into. Now Ryan's on his brother's doorstep, bruised, furious, and nowhere else to go, wanting to hate Gavin and needing him anyway. Reconnecting should be simple. It isn't. Because the closer they get, the more the past resurfaces, and Ryan's temper threatens to burn the only second chance he's got. And Gavin is forced to face past mistakes and fears. But as the brothers push through the distance and the old wounds, they start to uncover the truth neither of them expected. They didn't just survive the same man. They became more alike than they ever knew. And their bond grew to depths neither of them knew they both needed. Will their fathers return ruin that bond, or strengthen it? This is a transformation story so you're not going to get perfect characters. In the beginning they are distant and this story is how they both change and grow together again. If you don't like seeing rough ugly characters in the beginning, then watch them change throughout this probably isn't the story for you. *Disclaimer this story does contain emotional, psychological, and physical abuse by a father. MxF relationships and family focused