Seventeen-year-old Lilliana Rose Vitale has known nothing but pain. Trapped in a home with an abusive stepfather after her cruel mother's death, she's spent her life hiding bruises-both on her body and in her soul. Bullied at school and broken at home, she believes her life will end in silence... until the day everything changes. Her stepfather overdoses. And a long-buried secret rises from the ashes: Lilliana isn't alone. She has a father-the most feared Mafia Don in Italy, Alessandro Marco Vitale-and nine overprotective older brothers who never knew she existed. Dragged from a life of shadows into one of power, wealth, and danger, Lilliana must now learn to survive a new kind of chaos. Can she trust these dangerous strangers who call her "sorellina"? Can she heal from the trauma that haunts her every breath? And what happens when a ruthless Russian Mafia heir takes a special interest in the quiet girl with fire in her eyes? Family. Loyalty. Secrets. Blood. Her past tried to break her. Her future might just burn the world down.

The Kings Brothers owned the City of London along with the whole of United Kindom. With them expanding their business as high as the sky and their networks as deep as the earth's core, they'd earned themselves a lot of enemies. But only a fool could take them lightly and they did, only to find themselves six feet under. After all, they didn't do business just legally. They were the notorious, calculative, cunning, cruel brothers. They were the mafia. They were the law. Esmeray, a 12 year old, waking up, cooking, cleaning, getting whipped, kicked, taking beatings until she passes out was her daily routine. UNTIL.... The house she stays in is under attack by some people in black. And despite her efforts to hide, they find her passed out under in the basement. What will her fate be? Will they be the same as the people she has been staying with till now? Will she be able to bring warmth and love in the lives of the monsters who've never known what love and warmth is?

Eight-year-old Athena Dimitriou has never known safety. Raised by a mother who loved her but resented her, and a man who hid his violence behind closed doors, she learned early how to stay small, quiet, and invisible. Until the night everything shattered. When her mother is found dead and her stepfather vanishes, DNA results reveal an impossible truth-Athena is the illegitimate daughter of one of America's most powerful Mafia dons. Whisked away to New York, she finds herself in a palace of cold steel and burning loyalty, under the protection of five ruthless brothers who rule a criminal empire. She was born in silence. They raise her in steel. But beneath the violence lies something unexpected-soft hands, warm arms, a family that will kill for her, die for her... and teach her, at last, how to live. Book 1

Fifteen years ago, she disappeared. The Moretti brothers were raised to rule, seven sons of La Cosa Nostra, feared across the city, bound by blood and violence. They grew up believing their baby sister died with their mother the night she vanished. They were wrong. Sofia Moretti is alive. Broken by an abusive home, guarded by silence, and carrying scars no one bothered to see, she's suddenly thrown back into a world of danger, power, and seven brothers who don't know how to love gently. As the past comes crashing into the present, the Moretti empire begins to crack - because the most dangerous thing to threaten them isn't an enemy. It's the sister they failed to protect. A long-lost sister. Seven mafia brothers. One family learning how to heal.

All she could ever want is to be shown the love and care of a family to know that someone has her back through it all. However she is instead met with a date that wasn't created by her own hands when she ends up being brought up by her abusive step father,pain and turmoil is all she knows. Hiding her feelings away from the world allowing each step to drag her away from her own existence.Just when she's about to give up and her demons have her at her wits end her step father dies in a tragic accident. Knowing she would be alone seemed to give her a clearer light and a new beginning just as she found her ray of light her "biological family" finds her. Will they be there every step of the way or will they cast her out. Let the tale of family be unfolded and the truth be told. ɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞ CURRENTLY BEING EDITED!!!! Best Ranking🦋 #1 Abused #1 Faith #2 Fictional characters #3 Abuse #1 Nolove #13 Family #19 Depression #37 Anxiety #47 Mafia