She is the definition of water. Powerful enough to drown you, but just as delicate enough to cleanse you. She is irreplaceable. The unassailable longing for love and affection that she never received, molded her into stone. She is unstoppable. A lone girl shredded to pieces and tossed into the wind. A heart covered with walls as tall as time. She is Dangerously shattered. Scarlett D'Angelo. A girl who has been abused, forgotten, hated. only to have it craft her into becoming powerful, underestimated, independent girl. An unstoppable force. - As the truth unravels before her, she finds out her life was an on going cycle of lies. Brothers who live across the country take her under their care with little to no consent from her. But what she doesn't know is that they are some of the most dangerous people in the world. The fear she used to know is nothing compared to them. The D'Angelo family known as leaders, killers, and powerful men and women. Their whole life and generations before run the Italian mafia. The strongest. The most merciful. The most dangerous Mafia in the world. Will their world hurt her in the end? Or will she thrive in the world of violence? Will she be able to expose her past to them? Or will she keep her haunting past to herself and let it destroy her? ---------- rankings #12 in family problems #16 in gore #3 in drunk #3 in character development #14 in guns #5 in gang violence #1 in drug abuse #5 in powerful #1 in secretive #114 in dangerous #78 in overprotective #536 in depression #101 in little sister Started: September 2nd, 2024 ongoing!

Alessandro is the Italian Mafia Don. He lives with his three brothers, Luca, Nicholas and Greyson, with his wife, Sasha the French Mafia Princess, and her daughter Sarah. Alessandro lives, breathes, sleeps in the Mafia world. It's a cycle everyday that's starting to become unfulfilling. One day when they're all eating, a woman comes barreling into his house claiming he's the father of her kids that's run away and needs his help finding them. The woman claims she's worried sick for her kids but something isn't adding up. Noah and Nola are twins. They're 12 years of age and they're on the run. From they're mother and they're 'father'. They've managed to hide from them for 7 months until the Italian Mafia Don finds them. The Italian Don claims they're mother came to him for help finding them but the twins know how they're mother schemes. No, it's an ambush. One where the twins and Alessandro are trapped. Now it's up to Alessandro to avoid death and getting the twins hurt.

"It's just a needle, relax." Forest states calmly as he readies the needle and vial. "Easy for you to say you're not the one being stabbed with a pointy death tube." I thrashed, bucking and trying to free myself from Asher's arms. "Easy! You're going to hurt yourself Gray come help me hold her she won't quit moving!" Asher yells. "Let. Me. Go!" I thrashed harder and landed a good elbow to his ribs. He let go of me momentarily to clutch his stomach and I take this time to run. Freedom on the line, and Satan on my heels, I run like a girl. *** Azure Wilson has been on her own for quite a while. Turning to the streets to protect herself, she joins a gang at 12 and stays under the protection of Declan Henson, the gang leader and her 'personal' protector. Now 15, Azure finds herself as a more involved member of the gang, and gets to be the drug mule to a buy that goes south real quick. Leonardo Vincetti is the Don of the Italian Mafia. He's fed up with the gangs that have been poaching his goods and dealing with his clients under the table. Promising cheaper prices and more product, Devin and the Skulls have become a problem that needs to be eliminated. Setting up a fake deal expecting Declan or one of the men from his inner circle to arrive, he is in for quite the surprise when he's met with a scared teenage girl who looks an awful lot like him. Azure "escapes" and unknowingly leads the Italians right to Declan's hideout. Azure finds herself a prisoner being treated with far more care than the rest of her fellow gang members. Six boys and a Mafia legacy, Leonardo must figure out who this child is and why she has his eyes. Before someone else figures it out first. A past she doesn't remember, and an unsteady future, Azure must think fast, and act faster if she wants to take control of her life.

Meet Janessa Raines.. A 17 Year Old Assassin, Business Owner And Mom.. She was kidnapped at 1 by her families rival and she endured pain all the way up to 12. She was trained to kill, be smart, be amune to drugs, build, cook and pretty much everything. She became the worlds greatest assassin in the underworld, even mafia's want to work with her but she wouldn't. --- Meet The Raines Family.. The Italian mafia.. They were the most powerful in private and public. They might've looked like the picture perfect family but behind closed doors it definitely wasn't that. They hadn't been a family in 16 years.. All since the youngest child was kidnapped. What happens when they get a call that she's alive? Will they take her in? How will they react? How will she react? Read to find out.. ------ 1.8.22 ( #1 in Mafia ) 1.8.22 ( #2 in mafiaprincess ) 1.8.22 ( #3 in assassin ) 1.8.22 ( #1 in teenmother ) 1.8.22 ( #7 in lostdaughter ) 1.30.22 ( #8 in abuse ) Book Started: Sometime In The Middle Of December Book ended:

Astrid has never stepped out her house. She didn't know that her parents hitting her wasn't right. She always thought that's how it works. So what happens when her mother dies and step father runs away.

Aria Moretti has been through tragedies that no teenager should have to suffer through in their childhood. When her abusive foster parents are arrested, Aria finds her father and 7 brothers who have been searching for her since she was kidnapped at the age of 3. Also, they live in Italy. And did I mention they are the Italian Mafia. Aria's past holds secrets that affect the entire Moretti family. Secrets that not even Aria knows about herself that will be uncovered.

Aria Costito has spent most of her life in a form of captivity. She was kidnapped at the age of 6 by her parent's greatest rivals because of their position as leaders of the Italian mafia. Aria spent most of her life believing she was happier hidden away- until now. When her captor suddenly discards her, Aria learns what real love and care feel like, all while continuing her dance career, her one form of true freedom.

Sixteen-year-old Olive Monroe has never known freedom. Trapped in a dimly lit corner of a crumbling Arizona house, she's kept under the watch of her cruel stepfather, Rex. She dreams of sunlight, open skies, and a life beyond the shadows-but dreaming is the closest she's ever come to escaping. When Rex is arrested, Olive learns a shocking truth: she has five older brothers. Men who command respect with the click of a heel. Men who have spent fifteen years searching for the sister stolen from them. For Matteo Conti, the night the phone call comes is the first time he's been able to breathe since that day. Now, his baby sister is finally coming home. But the girl he finds is not the one he remembers-she's quiet, skittish, and flinches at the smallest sound. As Olive navigates a new world of power, protection, and overwhelming family love, she faces a choice: keep her past locked away, or trust her brothers with the truth. And for the Conti brothers, the question becomes-can the most influential men in the world learn how to be gentle for the one person they'd burn it all down to protect?

At Blackthorne Academy, only the rich and powerful survive. When Serena Vale joins the elite academy, everyone assumes she's just another poor scholarship student. Quiet, humble, and mysterious, Serena quickly becomes the target of bullying, humiliation, and cruel rumors. But while the academy looks down on her, four powerful boys begin noticing something different about her-especially Leonardo Devereux, the calm and untouchable heir who can't seem to stay away from her. Because Serena isn't weak. And she definitely isn't poor. In fact, she's richer and more powerful than everyone at Blackthorne combined. And when the truth finally comes out, the entire academy realizes they underestimated the wrong girl.

After fleeing her abusive ex in the middle of the night, Chloe Dawson arrives in a small coastal town with nothing but a duffel bag, a crying six-month-old baby, and the last of her savings. She rents a tiny apartment where the walls are paper-thin. Next door lives Sergeant Mason Kane, disciplined, exhausted, emotionally closed off, and currently on leave between military assignments. After years in the army, silence is the only thing that helps him sleep. Then the baby starts crying every night. At first, Mason is irritated. Chloe is terrified of him. Every knock on the door reminds her of the man she escaped.