Broken-family Stories

Riley doesn't remember the last time someone asked if she was okay. Not really asked. Not in the way that meant they were going to stay for the answer. She is seventeen years old and she has already learned the most important lesson this town has to offer - that people leave. They leave with promises folded neatly in their pockets, with good intentions they fully mean at the time, with duffel bags and bus tickets and fifteen days that turn into three years without a single word. They leave, and the ones left behind learn to stop waiting by the window. They learn to stop setting an extra plate. They learn to breathe around the absence until the absence just becomes the air. Riley works the late shift. She carries drinks to tables without being asked twice. She doesn't flinch at loud voices anymore. She doesn't cry at things that used to make her cry. She has become very good at being invisible in a room full of people - and even better at being invisible to herself. This is not the life she imagined. But it is the life she has. And she has made her peace with it, quietly, the way you make peace with things you never had a choice about. She is not waiting for anyone anymore. She stopped doing that a long time ago. Until the night a familiar face walks through the door - and three brothers who left her behind must now face what their absence built. Because blood doesn't forget. And neither does Riley.

Rankings: #Top 1 in India- 04-/05/2026-10/05/2026 #Top 2 in India- 31/05/2026 #1 in Slow-burn Romance- 31/05/2026 #1 in Age-gap romance- 21/05/2026 #1 in Broken Family- 20/05/2026 #1 in Single Mother- 20/05/2026 #1 in Replaced Bride- 20/05/2026 #1 in FoundFamily- 03/06/2026 ------------------------------------------------- The Japanese have rightly said- "Broken pieces tend to mend each other when kept together." But what if the broken pieces are people instead? Sharanya Kapoor, 26, an architect, widow, and single mother, is forced into a marriage as a replacement for her step-sister who runs away from her wedding. Loving, emotionally perceptive, and carrying her own unhealed wounds, she unexpectedly enters the fractured Rajvansh household. Rishvaan Rajvansh, 34, a divorced businessman and father of two teenage sons, was once a man capable of loving deeply. But betrayal turned him cold, emotionally detached, and distant from both emotions and his children. Now, a stranger and her little daughter, Eirisha, become part of their already broken lives. Can Sharanya soften the harsh dynamics of the Rajvansh household with her quiet warmth? Will Ishvaan and Avyaan ever accept her... or her daughter as their own? Can she rebuild trust within Rishvaan's guarded heart? And if broken souls are kept together long enough... can they eventually become a family?

Dear Husband, I wish you all the best. I am letting you go. No more secret glances. No more secret calls. No more secret box. No more longing looks and quiet sighs. I don't want to hear you mumble her name in our bed at three in the morning with your bourbon breath anyway. Go ahead. Love the love of your life freely. Fly to her. Set me free. Just your wife for now, Soon to be your ex-wife, Never been your love, Matilda Whitmore.

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Olivia's estranged father is dead. It's time for her to move back to Las Vegas to be with her twin and five older half-brothers... but they don't want her. Just like her mother and stepfather. ~~~ The patriarch of the D'Angelo crime family is dead. His eldest son and heir, Donatello D'Angelo may control a third of Las Vegas, but his family is falling apart. Second son Dante D'Angelo does nothing more than what Donatello tells him. His next brother Ares might be a psychopath. Irish twins Salvatore and Leone are becoming increasingly more codependent. His youngest brother Romeo is acting out more than ever before. Then there's Olivia. His father may have wanted nothing to do with his only daughter, but Donatello is determined to take care of her the same way he's taken care of his brothers since he was a teenager. Only, he underestimated how much hatred their father left in his brothers' hearts. If his brothers have their way, Olivia will never be a true D'Angelo. ~~~ House of Sins: Envy, Part I © 2026 Dawnie888. All rights reserved. Updates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (Eastern Time)

Hera has it all-Good grades, beauty , and wealth. If she were second on the list, no on would dare to occupy the top. Only Ariel, having the same bound and feat when it comes to academic would dare to do it. But what would happen when the friendship between the two started to shaken because of what you call 'Pathological Rivalry'?

"Some people enter your life as strangers and become your entire world." Arisha never wanted love. Reyansh never expected to fall in love. But destiny had other plans. What starts as an unexpected journey slowly turns into a story of love, family, trust, and heartbreak. Yet behind every smile lies a secret, and behind every happy ending lies a truth waiting to be revealed. Will their love be strong enough to survive the past? Or will one secret destroy everything they built together? ♡ Reyansh Khurana × Arisha Kapoor ♡

အချစ်မှာ ကန့်သတ်ချက်တွေမရှိဘူး ကျနော်ချစ်တဲ့သူက ကျနော်လက်ထပ်မယ့်သူပဲ ~ 〽 အခ်စ္မွာ ကန့္သတ္ခ်က္ေတြမရွိဘူး က်ေနာ္ခ်စ္တဲ့သူက က်ေနာ္လက္ထပ္မယ့္သူပဲ ~ 〽

I am Zanthea and hindi niniwala sa love. maaga kasi akong naulila sa ina at minsan sinasaktan pa ako ng tatay ko kaya never kong naranasan ang tinatawag na 'love'. ‎ ‎Masasakit na salita? Isa lang yan sa mga narinig ko mula sa mga tao. Panghuhusga, tsk kala mo naman perpekto. ‎ ‎until such time na May nakilala akong lalaki na hindi ko inaasahang makapagpapabago sa pananaw ko. ‎ ‎yung tipong 'totoo pala ang love?' 'magmamahal pa pala ako ng ganito?' ‎ ‎Mga bagay na hindi mo inaasahang mangyayari sa buhay mo. Mga bagay na di mo inaasahang babago sayo. ‎ ‎pero pano kung ang taong yun pala ay bawal mahalin... ‎ ‎

Florence Carson has spent most of her life surviving. Growing up with an alcoholic and abusive mother left her carrying scars that no one can see. When things finally become unbearable, Florence escapes to live with her father and older brother, hoping for a fresh start and a chance to rebuild the life she's never truly had. What she doesn't expect is Hayden O'Brien. As her brother's best friend, Hayden is everything she should stay away from: guarded, mysterious and carrying secrets of his own. He keeps everyone at arm's length, refusing to let anyone get close. But from the moment Florence enters his life, something begins to change. As their friendship grows into something deeper, Florence and Hayden find comfort in each other's broken pieces. Together, they learn that healing isn't about forgetting the past- it's about finding someone willing to face it with you. When old wounds and long-buried secrets threaten to tear them apart, they'll have to decide if love is strong enough to overcome everything they've been through.

Want to know how to survive in a world where you're the height of three apples and there are creatures (including your father) who might eat you at any second? Want to know how to stay inside so you don't die and rot in the streets; or worse, get eaten by things that look like your dead grandmother? Do YOU want to learn the rules these people live by? Like never say goodnight. Never make a sound after dark. Me too... I wish I knew how to do that too. Because I'm living it. Right now. So you don't have to! Lucky you! Welcome to my story, where I barely survive to tell the tale! Enjoy!!!!... and send help... please. ━━━━━━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━━━━━━ 🥇1st Place - Best First Chapter (Midnight Tales Awards 2026) 🥈2nd Place - Best Blurb (The Celestial Awards 2026) ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ:｡･:*:･ﾟ★

Aridine and Axel Black have always been complete opposites since the day they were born. From their favourite colour to their future pathways in life. Growing up the two had been close but as they gotten older and joined Hogwarts, they seem to have drifted apart... what will happen when they finally cross paths once again after five years because of the reappearance of their father?... -----

*"ဂြိုဟ်ဆိုး" ဟု အခေါ်ခံရင်း အမေ၏ မေတ္တာကို တစ်ခါမှ မရခဲ့သော နှောင်းခတ်ဦးဟာ မွေးနေ့နေ့တွင် မတော်တဆ သေဆုံးသွားခဲ့သည်။ သို့သော်... သေဆုံးခြင်းက သူ၏အဆုံးမဟုတ်ခဲ့။ မျက်လုံးပြန်ဖွင့်လိုက်သောအခါ သူရောက်ရှိနေသည်မှာ ၁၈ ရာစု၏ ဘုရင်ခေတ်။ တောအုပ်အတွင်း ဒဏ်ရာများဖြင့် မေ့လဲနေသော သူ့ကို ကယ်တင်ခဲ့သူက အနာဂတ်ဧကရာဇ်ဖြစ်လာမည့် အိမ်ရှေ့စံ ဘုန်းသိင်္ခမင်းမောင်။ အတိတ်၏ နာကျင်မှုများကို မေ့မရသေးသော နှောင်းသဟာ... ဒီဘဝမှာရော အချစ်ကို ယုံကြည်နိုင်ပ့ါဦးမလား။

We're not good people. We cheat, we steal, we lie. We've got blood on our skin. We're criminals. But maybe for her we can become better. Too bad we killed her father.

A girl who has a dull and boring life, meets five annoying guys who will bring change to her life. Will they become her friend or will she become their number one hater? SB19 Fanfiction

They were the King and Queen of the underworld. Untouchable. Unshakable. Until she shattered him. Now she's his ex-wife, and he's the devil she created. Cold. Heartless. Ready to burn her empire to the ground. They say hate is just love with scars. But in their world, secrets kill faster than bullets. And neither of them is innocent. He thinks she destroyed him for another man. She knows he was never the saint he pretended to be. In this game, love is a weakness. But hate? Hate might be the only thing keeping them alive Hridhaan Rajvansh X Rani Kapoor TROPE : Lovers to Enemies Beauty x monster Mafia king x mafia queen Ceo x Ceo Love triangle

feeling as if she doesn't need love anymore kymani revolves her life around the only thing that matters to her, kamorah. but what happens when someone makes her feel a way she hadn't in a long time?