The Cody's were a notorious criminal family in Oceanside, headed up by their matriarch Smurf. She kept her boys in line, raising them to get what they want, not what they deserve no matter the cost, and they did it well. But then there was Cameron, the youngest and only remaining girl. She was sugar in a world full or arsenic, but as the poison seeped down her family line and Cameron started doing jobs with her brothers, would she survive the world her mother had built? Only time would tell.

​​Emma Franklin is a saint. Andrew Cody is a sinner. ​In the Cody house, Smurf is god and loyalty is a religion. But the "static" in Andrew's head only goes quiet at The Sandy Anchor, over bad coffee and a smile from a woman who calls him Andrew. ​ When Smurf marks the diner as a decoy for their next heist, the sanctuary is compromised. Now, Pope has to pay the tithe. He'll be the one to walk through those doors with a mask and a gun, because the only thing more dangerous than terrorizing the woman he wants is letting someone else do it.

POPE CODY X F. OC In which a med student sees a man wandering at night and can't help her curiosity. OR In which two people who can't sleep become each other's safe place.

Lowen Clarke doesn't exist anymore. At least, that's what she needs everyone to believe. Running from a life she barely escaped, she lands in Oceanside, California with nothing but a stolen secret. The last thing she needs is to get attached. The last person she should want is Andrew Cody. But the Codys have a way of pulling you in, and dirty laundry often has a way of finding the light.

After years of violence, loss, and loyalty to a family that nearly destroyed him, Andrew "Pope" Cody finds something he never thought he'd have: a woman who loves him anyway, and a baby girl who gives him a reason to come home. Through prison calls, stolen visits, sleepless nights, and the fragile beginning of fatherhood, Andrew learns that maybe he isn't too broken to be loved - or to build a life worth staying for.

! 𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐘 & 𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐘 | 𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐏𝐌 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 ! 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭. 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐝. 𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝. 𝐒𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐞. 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞, 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝'𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 - 𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐀𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭.

───────── .・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。 IN WHICH the day Andrew Cody was sent to prison was the day he found out the love of his life was going to have his baby. ANIMAL KINGDOM Season 1 -3? ANDREW CODY x FEM!OC UNEDITED ─────────

Araceli Morales built her life in the shadows-hacking, watching, protecting the Cody family from behind a screen. Control is her safety. Distance is her strength. Until Pope comes back. Fresh out of prison and more dangerous than ever, Pope brings chaos with him-unpredictable, intense, and impossible to ignore. Where others see a threat, Ari sees something different. Something familiar. Something broken. As tension builds and the family spirals deeper into danger, Ari finds herself caught between what she's always known- And what she's starting to feel. Because the closer Pope gets, the harder it becomes to keep her walls up. And when everything starts to fall apart... He might be the one thing she can't protect herself from.

Joy has spent the last ten years running. From cold towns and worse apartments. From men who raised their voices too quickly. From motel rooms with broken locks and memories that still wake her up at three in the morning. By twenty-seven, she's learned how to survive quietly: keep moving, keep smiling, never stay long enough to belong anywhere. Oceanside, California was never supposed to be permanent. Neither was The Drop. After walking into the bar looking for work, Joy unexpectedly finds herself pulled into the orbit of the Cody family - a dangerous, volatile crime family held together by loyalty, violence, and Smurf Cody's suffocating control. Deran gives her a chance behind the bar, and what starts as an easy friendship slowly turns into something far more complicated as Joy becomes entangled in the family's lives. Especially Pope's. Quiet, observant, and deeply unsettling, Pope sees too much too quickly - the scars hidden beneath Joy's tattoos, the exhaustion she disguises with humour, the careful way she keeps one foot permanently out the door. As the lines between survival and belonging begin to blur, Joy finds herself becoming attached to the worst possible people she could ever learn to love. But nobody enters the Cody family untouched. And nobody leaves unchanged. A slow-burn fanfiction. This book will include heavy descriptions of drug use and addiction, self-harm scars/references, childhood abuse, domestic violence, emotional manipulation, mental illness, violence, trauma, sexual themes, and mature language. The feedback you guys gave me after i wrote my Jack Abbot books was AMAZING, thank you so much! I don't feel terrified sharing things i've written now, this will be VERY different to the other two books and a lot darker but i hope you enjoy it as much!