Stolen From Their Embrace

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A mafia brothers story where the mother is still alive:

Ilaria Pallante was stolen at three years old and raised by a woman who wasn't her mother.

For years, her life felt normal, until it wasn't. By the time she turned ten, the warmth she once knew turned cold, replaced by control, cruelty, and isolation. She stopped asking questions. She stopped believing there was anything else.

Then, everything changes. After the woman who raised her is arrested, a DNA test reveals the truth: Ilaria was never lost. She was taken from a powerful family who never stopped looking for her.

Now, at fourteen, she's thrown back into a world of wealth, family, and dangerous secrets she doesn't remember.

They tell her she's home.

But finding her way back to the people who love her might be harder than anyone expected, especially when she's not sure she knows herself at all.