Mara has never been completely alone, but she has always been pretty lonely. When unfortunate events pull her from her Mother, she is forced to reunite with her biological Father. And his family. Mara is thrown into a world of secrets, wealth, and turmoil. Suddenly, she's not so alone. TW: Substance abuse, cursing, graphic violence, and scenes containing death.

This is a dark, emotional journey into the mind of a neglected child hidden in plain sight. When eight-year-old Elliot makes a desperate call for help, a fractured family is forced to confront secrets long buried - and a boy they never knew existed. Told through haunting moments and fragile hope, this is a story of pain, survival, secrets, and what it truly means to be heard.

Seventeen-year-old Aria Castellano thought she knew who she was - a scholarship student, a good daughter, a girl with simple dreams and a mother who made the world feel safe. But when her mother dies in a car accident, the life Aria knew unravels overnight. A letter. A name. A father she's never met. Now she's flying across the country to New York - to a mansion with guards at every gate, brothers who don't know what to make of her, and a father still struggling to accept the daughter he didn't know existed. Her stepmother is kind, her new home beautiful... but nothing about it feels right. At St. Augustine's Academy, power hums beneath every smile and secret. The students there were born into legacies - families bound by alliances older than the school itself, until betrayal tore them apart. Those old rivalries still live on in the halls she walks now, and Aria's arrival is stirring them all back to life. One boy in particular seems to hate her most. He's untouchable, cruel in that effortless way only someone raised in power can be. But behind the sharp words and colder eyes is something else - something that pulls her closer even when she knows she shouldn't look twice. As Aria begins to uncover the truth her mother died protecting, she learns that some secrets were buried for a reason... and that even in a world built on bloodlines and betrayal, the most dangerous thing of all might be the way he looks at her. "Some secrets don't stay buried forever. And Aria Castellano's name might be the one that brings them all back to the light"

When fourteen-year-old Ryan Carter stumbles upon a hidden document revealing he was adopted, his world is turned upside down. Driven by a need to uncover the truth, Ryan discovers a powerful, wealthy family he never knew he belonged to-a family with secrets buried as deep as their fortune. As he inches closer to the truth, Ryan learns that his existence was concealed, not only from him but from his seven towering brothers, who begin to notice the strange boy haunting their estate. Unraveling the past may bring Ryan closer to answers, but it could also shatter the lives of those he's just begun to know. Mystery, family intrigue, and a hidden betrayal await in this thrilling journey of self-discovery and redemption.

New York never slept, but that night, the Ricci household did. The penthouse, usually filled with laughter, music, and the scent of fresh espresso, had fallen into an eerie silence. The soft hum of the baby monitor sat unnoticed on the bedside table. No one heard the creak of the nursery door. No one noticed the absence of breath from the bassinet. By morning, the world had changed. Three year old Alessandro Ricci was gone. The first scream came from Valentina, the eldest daughter. She was the one who found the empty crib, the soft blue blanket discarded on the floor. Then came the chaos-the panic in their father's voice as he barked orders in rapid Italian, the trembling in their mother's hands as she clutched the baby's last-worn onesie. The police swarmed in, news cameras soon followed, and for days, the Ricci's were a family under siege. A family in mourning. Days turned into weeks. Weeks into months. The trail went cold. The whispers began-speculations, doubts, cruel insinuations that an influential family like theirs should have been able to protect their own. But the Ricci's knew the truth. Someone had taken Alessandro. And three years later, as the city moved on, they never did. Because somewhere out there, their baby brother was waiting to come home.

{𝘉𝘖𝘖𝘒 𝘛𝘏𝘙𝘌𝘌 𝘖𝘍 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘓𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘓𝘌𝘚𝘚 𝘛𝘙𝘐𝘓𝘖𝘎𝘠 } Hudson Tempest's an enigma nobody's capable of solving. Darkness has been moulded into his skin, running through him as easily as his blood. More than he's ever allowed anyone to see. Swept up into a world of sin and deviance, Hudson Tempest was broken as a boy and shattered several times over the course of his life. Made to be cruel and forced into a pool of self-destruction, a life that will only ruin him if it continues. Death has been the only thing in sight to him, for a long time. But how hard it is to save someone, who wants to let themselves drown. Val Emerson's the embodiment of light. A heart that outpours warmth like she was made to love, from the very moment she was born. The sunny side up sort of girl with an affinity for the sea, and smiles. When the cruelest of them all and the happiest of them all collide. When her hatred turns into a desperate desire to save the most broken of them all, far past salvation. When his hatred morphs into something he promised not to feel. Opposites. Dark, to light. Whole, and broken. Rivals, in all they do. Until somewhere along the way, they find themselves falling into each other's arms. Somehow, into each other's clashing hearts. <3

The home of the Spencer was torn apart by a gruesome incident of murders committed by the only daughter of their family, Clementine, who stabbed her own father and a delivery boy that accidentally stumbled upon the scene. After undergoing arduous trials and legal battles, she was deemed not guilty by reasons of insanity and was sentenced to be institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital, in addition to promptly being disowned by her mother and brothers who now harbored a profound abhorrence of her. Eighteen years later, Cameron Crane, Clementine's second younger brother made the decision to take over her guardianship as she was no longer viewed as a threat, but his endeavor was all his own and without telling his other brothers of the fact that their father's killer was coming home with him, he swore that even if he had to cross what remained of his family, he was determined to understand what really happened that day.

When Jack and his family move back to New York after fleeing the state ten years earlier, he finds a multitude of things he'd always wished for. Friends, family, love? As the years go by and past horrors resurface, Jack has to learn to lean on the people around him rather than carry all his burdens alone. Check TW's.

"TWO BOYS. ONE EPIC LOVE STORY." • • • After constant bullying about his sexuality, Micheal Cade moves to New York City to start fresh for his junior year. When he starts at a new private school, he decides to keep his sexuality a secret so he won't get bullied like he did at his old school. But that all changes when he meets Damien Chase. Damien Chase is attractive, smart, and athletic. He is popular, but an asshole to almost everybody but his twin sister. He is the exact opposite of Micheal. But just like Micheal, he keeps his sexuality a secret. He doesn't want people to treat him differently, especially by his family. When Micheal becomes friends with Damien's twin sister, the two have to be around each other. After a while, the two start hanging out on their own as friends. But things start to get complicated when they start growing feelings towards each other. With pillow fights, parties, late night talks, fights, and sneaking around, follow these two through their journey of love. Find out more in Secret Love. (Book Four in the Cade Series.)