"What is it short for," he wonders out loud. "Why don't you take a guess," I suggest to him. He stops and thinks, caressing his chin like a Disney villain. "Is your full name Lucille? Ooh, what about Lucinda," he stares at me waiting for me to confirm one of his guesses.
"You want to know my full name," I ask and he responds with a quick, "yes." "If you really want to know," he waits. His anticipation, thick in the air. I let a small smile slip as I announce, "It's Lucie, short for Lucifer."
•~~~ Good Ol' Info ~~~•
Lucifer Van Doren, aka Lucie, was born and raised in New York City by her single mother. She didn't socialize much. Actually she didn't socialize at all. Lucie kept to herself. I know what you're thinking. 'What was the childhood trauma, miss author lady?' Let me tell you. There wasn't any. She loved being by herself no immature boys to play with her heart, no friends who she wouldn't talk to after highschool, no worries. She loved it that way.
Well... That's until she moves to Cherry Lake...
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.