The Search For Shattered Pieces *Complete*
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  • Reads 65,009
  • Votes 3,635
  • Parts 45
  • Time 15h 44m
Ongoing, First published Mar 19, 2018
Mature
It only takes one moment to change your life forever.

It only takes one decision to alter the course of your future.

It only takes bravery to open your heart.

But once your heart is open...it's open to being shattered.

Lyra and her mom had little in the way of monetary comfort, but much in the way of love.  Lyra was happy, loved and joyously free when she was able to fly...to skate.  As long as Lyra had her mom, a home and a rink to skate at...life made sense.

One moment shattered it all.

Now Lyra has been sent to live with her absent father-the father that left her and her mom when she was a baby for another woman.  Far away from everything she has ever known she desperately tries to come to grips with the confusing and scary changes in her life.  It seems hopeless...it seems too difficult...and then life throws her another curveball in the way of her new stepbrothers.  

Xavier, Zachariah, Trenton and Tallis...The Parrish 4, the unmistakable kings of all they survey, and her new stepbrothers.  They don't like change.  They don't want an intruder in their lives.  They don't like their stepfather, and they definitely don't need his bratty kid moving in.  They don't want to want her...but what if what they want is not the same as what they need?

It only takes one moment to change your life forever-but it might take four guys to define it.

**18+**
This story deals with some "hard" issues: loss of loved ones, control, or lack thereof, body issues, and forbidden love.  The themes are mature and the content is also going to grow in maturity.  It is not for those under the age of 18. -Contemporary RH-
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