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.

I thought I knew who I was. Gabriel Alvarez. Twenty. Son of a poor family in Albuquerque. Big brother. Protector. Future cop. My life had been built on long nights of work, endless study, and the unshakable promise that one day I'd wear a badge strong enough to keep my family safe. But then the threads started unraveling. Whispers of a world I wasn't meant to see. Names spoken like curses. The Caruso family. The Sicilian Mafia. Everyone in the city knew they ruled from the shadows. What no one knew, what I could never have imagined, was that I carry their blood. I am the brother they lost fifteen years ago. Every step I take now feels like a betrayal. To the family who raised me, who trust me with their lives. To myself, who swore I would fight men like the Carusos. But when the moment comes, when the truth tears everything apart, I don't know which side I'll stand on. The law I've devoted my life to... or the brothers who claim me as their own?

Luke was an unwanted child. The attention poured onto his older brother's after his mom's passing made that all too clear. His family dislike him. It only became more obvious when he was sent thousands of miles away to America to be 'reshaped' into a better, normal person. Not a freak like people called him in the hallways. Not a psychopath like his stepmother calls him. But in the end, what can you do when people drive you to your tipping point? Do you bend to their will... or do you break?

Once a boy trapped in the hands of a monster, Grayson Smith now stands a man carved from scars and quiet nightmares. No longer frail, no longer anyone's battlefield. He knows the fight, the ground, and the cards. Years after Charlie, years after a damaged teen, he inherits a crown he never asked for but life prepared him to bear. His scars speak louder than words, telling stories untold, half the Mafia wants him erased. The other half-led by the most feared boss alive-wants to claim him. Why? They share the same blood. The same flesh. Once rejected-now hunted to be taken back by force. Grayson-the silent shadow hidden behind castle walls, the mind behind the name Pokus II-finds himself trapped again in a circle of impossible decisions. But this time he isn't alone. At his side stand the ones he must protect, even as the growing menace threatens to bring him to his knees. He can no longer run to his uncles. He is no longer the child who needed safe hands. He is the Silent Hands now- the one who wields the sword. But the greatest enemy isn't the Mafia at his door-it's the darkness locked inside him. A hunger for destruction. A shadow born from blood he never wanted. A part of him that whispers he is no different from the man who abused him, no different from the father who rejected him, no different from the cruelty running through his veins. Grayson must fight that darkness-He must be different. Different from the man who abused him. Different from the father who rejected him. Different from the ruin that runs in his family and in his veins despite his pains and losses and he must watch his heart being torn again and again. What will become of Grayson Smith? 🍀Hopefully, the last book! 😁🍀

[COMPLETED] What if your life changed dramatically? How would you cope? When 15 year old Tris lost her parents aged four, she didn't think life could get worse. When her best friend leaves her in the evil clutches of her high school bully Nathan, Tris is faced with cyber, physical and verbal abuse. Her brothers are oblivious to all of this, so when something happened to Tris will they finally see the hell she lives in?

Remington knows very little of the world, kept within a basement for years by his Mentally ill father who he had grown attached to and loved dearly, left to the mercy of a powerful man. But when a series of events result in him entering the new modern world, he's thrown in the secrets and betrayals of the family that abandoned him. Too innocent and naïve for the world, Remi must navigate his family and understand the woman that abandoned him. Having to navigate two new brothers, a step father that he doesn't understand and a mother who wants to ignore everything around her. Contending with friendships, modern life and a world that he had never truly seen before, the wave of anxiety is building and the looming threats from the shadows. But Remi knew three things in his life: Love is pain Hatred was inevitable Everything was his fault. ** I will not place trigger warning on the chapters, so please read the tags before reading this book as it touches on some heavy topics. Including, Abuse (all kinds), Abandonment, Suicide, Swearing, Chains, Gore, Blood, Drugs/Alcohol, Stockholm Syndrome, Sexual Assault/Rape. Etc. Please be kind in your comments, but I welcome comments. I'm sorry I'm not very good at descriptions, but please give this story a chance and adore Remi as I have adored writing him. I am hoping this will become part of a series.**

Christopher Benjamin Jackson is the last son of Daniel Jackson a rich and successful business man and a strict but loving single father of five sons. He has five brothers, with a big house and a multimillionaire father, you may think he must be really happy with everything on his feet, but no, he would gladly trade all he has just for one thing, the love of his brothers, who despise him right from the instance he left the hospital without their beloved mother. Christ will have to pass through lots of pain to merit their love, or will he ever obtain their love? Read to find out! ⚠Trigger warning: This book contain abuse and use of curse words. If you're okay with that then go ahead and read it.

The only life Sailor Anderson has ever known, is back in the sunny Charleston South Carolina, not in Aspen Colorado. All of a sudden, his life is turned upside-down, starting with moving across the country to live with his new stepfather and four stepbrothers. To make matters worse, his new brothers despise him and his entire existence. How will Sailor adjust to his new life? And his newfound family, because after all, his stepbrothers can't hate him forever. And what will happen when Sailor finds himself in more danger than anyone imagined. Will his new found family protect him? Or will they brush him aside?

A boy minding his bussiness, living his life without any rules or any one's supervision but his life takes a 360° turn when he suddenly is kidnapped by mafias, tortured by them, then treated by them and didn't know HOW but then he is adopted by them and there are rules?He got siblings and a father? He gets pampered by them but the next second tortured?They think He is cute but the next second they hate him? He is still processing what just happened. And guess he would never process what is happening. Hamza couldn't help but wonder, would he ever find a way to escape this nightmare, or was he destined to be trapped in this twisted world forever?

Revenge. I'm familiar with it. You have to be when you're the firstborn son of a notorious mafia leader. Death and vengeance have been the very foundations of my life. So who in their fucking mind would be stupid enough to cross me? My brother and I have been wrongfully convicted of a crime we didn't commit. We know who is behind this. We bid our time behind bars, planned and prepared for the day we got out. Now we're free and hungry for redemption. I know what must be done. I know whose blood will be spilled. But before I go after him, I'll go after his daughter. I never said I play fair. *Book one in the Marino Brothers Duet. Rated 18+ due to explicit language, sex, and violence.*