55 parts Ongoing MatureOrphaned at three. Sold at five. Abused for years.
Italiyah has never known safety, never known love-only pain, survival, and the cold reality that no one comes to save little girls like her. But when she's found broken and bleeding by the Condulis family, everything changes. For the first time in her life, she has protection. A home. People who would kill for her.
But nothing good lasts forever.
When the Condulis move to New York, buried secrets resurface, and Italiyah comes face-to-face with the family that abandoned her. Her biological family. The people who left her to rot while she suffered.
They want her back.
They want to make things right.
But can she ever forgive them? Can she leave behind the only people who ever truly cared for her?
As the truth unravels and dark pasts collide, Italiyah is faced with an impossible choice: return to the blood that betrayed her or stay with the family that saved her.
Because in the end, blood isn't always thicker than water.