Eighteen-year-old Forrest Driscoll is left behind at a truck stop in the middle of a winter storm with seven dollars in his pocket, no coat, no ID, and nowhere to go. His father doesn't come back. Forrest tells himself he can survive it. He has survived worse. He knows how to stay invisible, how to stretch a few dollars, how to sleep where no one notices, and how to keep moving before people start asking questions. Then Lynk Sharpe finds him. Lynk is a twenty-seven-year-old contractor with a smart mouth, a soft heart, and a wife who already knows he has a dangerous habit of bringing home strays. He only means to buy Forrest breakfast and get him out of the cold. But one meal turns into one ride, one safe place to sleep, and one chance at a life Forrest never thought he could have. With Lynk, Kilah, and the Sharpe family, Forrest starts to learn what it feels like to be wanted instead of used. He finds work. He finds warmth. He finds people who don't make him earn every bite of kindness. But Forrest is hiding the truth. He is hiding why his father really left him. He is hiding the warrant in another state. He is hiding what he was forced to do for years. He is hiding the fact that he can barely read. And even as Lynk gives him a place to belong, Forrest can't stop reaching for the approval of the man who abandoned him. For the first time in his life, Forrest has a family. And he is terrified the truth will make them wish they had left him where they found him.

Ivan has endured more pain, misery, and heartbreak in his fourteen years of life than most people do in a lifetime, all at the hands of a father who's given him nothing but hate and scars. Then his "father" dies in a tragic accident, and a DNA test reveals that his father isn't his father, he has a real family: a mother, a father, and four older brothers. His entire life has been a lie. And to top it all off, they're not just any family, they're the Morozov's. A name everyone has heard at least once in their lifetime. Wealthy, powerful, and untouchable across the globe. Can Ivan survive there world? Learn to trust and maybe even love? Or is this just another disaster waiting to explode?

Every story in my universe comes back to one thing. Brotherhood. Blood brothers. Chosen brothers. Families built through time, distance, second chances, forgiveness, loyalty, and a whole lot of chaos. Missing Moments is a bonus collection of short stories and one shots from my connected book universe. These are the scenes that happened before the books, between chapters, after endings, or just outside the main story. Some will be funny. Some will be emotional. Some will be chaotic. Most will probably involve someone testing an older brother's last nerve. You don't have to be fully caught up to read. Each Missing Moment will include a quick note explaining who's involved and where it fits in the timeline. Because not every moment made it into the story. But they all helped build the family.

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

London Hawthorn wasn't your average thirteen year old. Though physically he was perfectly normal, brown wavy hair and ice cold eyes that made girls go wild. But what set him apart from other boys his age was the fact that at only thirteen years old, he was already solving a murder case. However this wasn't just any murder case, it was the twisting, terribly sad, and downright confusing case that belonged to his own blood. His mother. When things begin to unwind and reveal itself, London is tasked with finding his father-a man who is supposed to be dead. And with his father comes his siblings, six of them. All tall, strong, and absolutely gut wrenchingly terrifying. With voices that could send shivers down the bravest of souls. As London sets out to find his father, with only a backpack and a locket, he also begins to find clues. Clues to what? Well, that's for London to know, and for you to find out. Will London ever find his father? What will happen when he does? Will this terrifying man even bother with his thirteen year old son. And what will happen when these clues begin to reveal themselves? Will London finally find the culprit behind all his years of hurt, or is it as it seems?

Haunted by a past, Harsh doesn't speak of, he trusts no one. They call him promiscuous. Raucous. A disgrace. But he has every right to hate the royals of Ajmerganj and every reason to protect himself by hook or crook. Because you don't let a predator sniff at your bleeding wound. Unless you want your neck snapped. #book 1

Ignored. Sent away. Forgotten. Now he's back after almost two years from the hell they call Lockwood, all smiles and cheery expressions but under that exterior is a lone boy, crying for help he will never ask for. He was sent away to be 'fixed' 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?

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?

For years, Kaden and West have survived on their own. No safety net. No home. No family to fall back on. Only the constant fight for money, shelter, and the right to exist. They were torn away once-lost in the chaos of a night no one talks about. Now, fate is pulling them back to the family they were never meant to find again. But broken pieces don't always fit back together the way they once did. Reunion promises hope, healing, and the chance to finally belong. Yet old wounds run deep, and the brothers they return to are no longer the boys they remember. Trust is fragile. Loyalty is tested. And forgiveness comes at a cost. Because while the family struggles to rebuild, something dark is watching. Waiting. Kaden and West's return has awakened an enemy who would rather see the family shattered than whole. Is a happy reunion even possible after everything that was lost? Or will the brothers be forced to face a new trial-one that could destroy them all? Some pieces were never meant to come back. And some truths are more dangerous than being broken.

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.