FantasyBooks_4_Life
They spent seventeen years teaching her how to live without them.
Now, she's doing exactly that.
Isabella was never wanted in the De luca home. To her father and five older brothers, her very first breath was the crime that stole their mother's life.
Left to fend for herself, Isabella learned the art of disappearing-hiding behind advanced calculus textbooks by day and pushing her body to its absolute physical limits on the local ice rink by night.
The day she turned legally independent, she walked away.
She didn't look back, and she didn't leave a forwarding address.
Five years later, Isabella has built an empire out of the cold. She is a twenty-three-year-old global figure-skating champion, independently wealthy, and surrounded by an airtight family of her own choosing. She has traveled the world, leaving the ghosts of her childhood thousands of miles behind.
Until an official hometown gala forces her to return to the freezing arena where it all began.
When she unexpectedly bumps into her family, the tables are completely turned. Her father and brothers are no longer towering tyrants; they are broken men, choking on years of silent guilt, begging for a sliver of her attention.
But Isabella isn't angry, and she isn't looking for revenge. She is completely indifferent.
And as they fight desperately to claw their way back into her world, they must face the ultimate, crushing reality: they didn't just break her-they outgrew her.