Life is a funny thing one moment can change your life. But the thing is you can always point to something that causes that change and then something that cause that and so on. It all depends on the cards you've been dealt and what you make and do with them. So what cards have been dealt to the Cortelli family? Especially in regards to the youngest two. Well to keep things short and sweet let's just say that they haven't been dealt the best cards in life. Now one may wonder: what happened to this family. The answer if you want to know is that the Cortelli family wasn't just any family they were mafia. Being involved in the mafia has you being dealt a whole new deck of cards and the lowest cards in the deck happened to fall to the two youngest who were kidnapped when they were a year and a half old. Read to find out what the twins, Lilliana and Lucas, experienced in their fourteen years away from their eight brothers and how they will be reunited. What cards will they hide, show and what new cards will they be dealt? After all life is a gamble. © All Rights Reserved Not an incest story Started in Late September First post date: 12/18/20 Final post date: High Rankings: #1 Anxiety Attacks #1 Big Brothers #1 Reunion #1 Lilliana #1 Long Lost Siblings #1 Long Lost Brother #1 Only Sister #1 Reunited #3 Mafia Brothers #4 Big Family #4 Siblings #6 Long Lost Sister #7 Family #8 Older Brothers #8 Panic Attacks #9 Mafia #9 Abuse #9Twin #11 Brothers #16 Little Sister #16 Abused #26 Overprotective #26 Lucas #40 Sister #43 Love

*This is my version on Their abused little angel by @Dead_virens* *UNEDITED* At a young age, Rosabella's Parents got a divorce leaving her dad having custody to her brothers while she was left with her abusive druggy of a mother. Her mother always finding happiness in hurting her daughter because of the similarities between them both. Her mother abused her for years but never taking it so far that she ends up in hospital until one night when Rosa comes home for a party her angry mother awaits. When Rosabella finally snaps she gets knocked out by her mother and wakes up in hospital with some very tall, strong scary men surrounding her. When she realises that she is finally safe and with her family she never wants to leave.... But the secrets her family and boyfriend are keeping will lead to many many problems. -Will Rosabella find her happy ever after? -How will she take the secrets? -Will she be the person who stops the wars? -Can she bring her family together as one? -How does her dancing help her? •There will be swearing and possibly some sensitive subjects so if you don't like that then this probably isn't the book for you!• •This is also my first book and I started righting this at quite a young age so it is anything but perfect!•

At age 14, Danielle has experienced more pain than most in their lifetime. She hides from the truth, wishing the agony away every night. However when death finally comes to take her, 5 boys appear in her life claiming to be her knights in shining armor. What if they could save her, and in turn, be saved themselves? But is there anything left of the broken family in the end? ///////TRIGGER WARNING: mentions of rape, abuse, murder, and some fighting scenes////// Thanks to @EverElemental for help w/ the description!

•[COMPLETED]• Book-1 of Costello series. Valentina is a free spirited bubbly girl who can sometimes be very annoyingly kind and sometimes just.. annoying. She has lived in Texas as long as she can remember with her mother with no knowledge of her rest of her family. Suddenly her life takes a huge turn. Loved ones are lost and sudden revelations are made. She is not very good at dealing with changes. Well let's just say she is in for a huge surprise when she finds out about her father and the fact that she has six brothers. Yeah that's gonna be fun :) . . Yup this is another older brother/ mafia family story. Enjoy! Best rankings: #1 in siblings #1 in Big brothers #1 in American mafia #1 in Costello #1 in cousin #1 in lost Princess #2 in mafia brothers #2 in lost daughter #3 in badass #3 in family secrets #4 in older brother #5 in sarcasm #4 in sister #4 in reunited

"My brothers will kill us if they find out." "Well let's hope they never find out." --- Diamond Spencer is your average 16 year old girl. Well, almost average. When she was two years old she was taken away from her father and 6 brothers by her mom. 14 years later, her mom is dead and Diamond is suddenly in the care of her brothers, whom she has no memory of. How will Diamond adapt to life with her rich, overprotective, older brothers? --- ✨R A N K I N G S ✨ #13 in Romance - 2/10/2021

Heaven was abducted from her biological family when she was 2 year old. Almost all her life she was abused by her stepbrothers. What would happen when she runs away from them? What happens when she realises she have 7 biological brothers?Will she be able to trust them? Will they be able to trust her? It is a journey of a 13 year old who tries to trust and love when her world is crumbling down.

I've been telling myself for years that I wasn't good enough and the minute I'm finally ready to commit the deed...to die...life won't fucking let me. That's because life hates me. I left my past life behind me and now I'm being brought back into it. Back into Gang life. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• A girl named April García wants to die. But life won't give her the satisfaction of being free. Her whole life is a lie. She's broken beyond compare yet she puts on a smile and makes witty stubborn comebacks to hide her flaws. Her imperfections. April had a loving family, but they left her by going up to heaven while she stayed on the Earth. She lives on her own trying to pay the hospital bills of her two brothers in a coma just barely getting by. What happens when she finds out she was adopted? What happens when she finds out her biological family consists of 4 older brothers and 2 "loving" parents? What happens when this family is beyond rich...but not for the right reasons. Welcome to gang life.

Annabella has had a rough life. From surviving brutal beatings from her so called 'parents' to becoming a well known person on the streets. Oh. And she was kidnapped when she was a newborn. Fast forward 16 years and she is tired of the abuse. She calls up one of her friends and moves to Italy. What happens when she runs into the school bad boys? Or when they turn out to be her brothers? Follow Anna on her journey that will have ups and downs but that's family for you. Will everything she tried to keep in the shadows bring her family closer together or tear them apart? cover by @mebarrioss 𒊹︎Started:June 1,2020 𒊹︎Completed:June 25, 2021

Liliana has always had a bad life. Ever since she was five, her mother would date the wrong people who would corrupt her, and she was the one who always got hurt. The abuse was usually mental, but then Liliana turned ten, and that's when it became physical. Four years later, she finds out that her mom died in a car accident and has to go live with her older brothers who she has no memory of. Will her brothers welcome's her with open arms? Will she learn to let them in? Will they find out the truth of her childhood? TRIGGER WARNING: includes abuse and mental health like anxiety, depression, and self harm

•[COMPLETED]• Book-2 of Costello series This is a sequel of the book "I'm a Costello" I would suggest to read the first book in order to understand this book. . . . Valentina's life turned upside down when half of her family got kidnapped out of the blue. She is devastated along with her brothers, but is ready to save her family and get some revenge. Read how she finally truly owns the title of the mafia princess by saving her family and her mafia. There's a lot more that's come to surface in not just her life but also her friend's lives. Some revelations are pretty damn shocking which give rise to a lot more challenges that she, her family and friends face. Follow her in this journey where she experiences love, sadness, action, drama, comedy and a lot more! No one messes with the Costello and loves. (Some mature sexual scenes) ⚠️