Liminal

nepenthe (n.) medicine for sorrow; a person or thing that can aid in forgetting pain or sorrow 𖤓 Elodie is no stranger to sorrow, it was ever present in her life. At eleven years old she had learned that to try to rid of it was fruitless, and that once you stop fighting it becomes like a blackbird on your shoulder- present but not excruciatingly painful anymore. But when she is taken in by her biological family, her whole view on how she should live is forever changed. Or... In which Elodie is finally reunited with her family after eight years. However, like all things in life, she's changed. She isn't the only one keeping secrets,will these secrets finally air themselves out or will they continue to fester underneath the surface.

Tamsyn's life took a dark turn at the tender age of three when her mother abruptly vanished, leaving behind a bewildered father and five older brothers. To the family, it seemed like an abduction, a shocking betrayal that cast her mother as a traitor in their eyes. The whispers of an illicit affair hung heavy in the air. Little did they know, Tamsyn's mother's disappearance was a desperate act of protection, a cloak-and-dagger maneuver to shield her loved ones from a menacing world. What they'll soon discover is that Tamsyn's mother left with a secret that would rock their foundation - she was carrying twins when she vanished. Enter Blake, the enigmatic figure masquerading as her mother's "boyfriend" to the outside world, but in reality, the cunning mastermind behind The Guild, the globe's most ruthless assassination syndicate. Tamsyn and her siblings were thrust into a world they never knew existed, where they were trained and coerced into carrying out perilous missions for The Guild. As the years roll on, tragedy strikes, and Tamsyn's mother is killed in a car crash, reuniting Tamsyn and her twin siblings with their long-lost family. With the truth buried for over a decade, buried secrets will claw their way to the surface, and buried traumas will demand reckoning. Now, not only must they confront the shocking truth about their mother's departure, but also grapple with the darkness of their own past actions and the dangerous world they were unwittingly thrust into.

Kyla Bower's whole life changed when the two people she loved most died: her mother and grandmother. Having to find means to survive on her own; working, going to school, and hiding somewhere while trying to escape from a past she didn't want anything to do with... When everything seems to be caving into new chaotic world, Kyla's paternal grandmother, who she hasn't see for almost all her life, dies, leaving Kyla in her will. Little does she expect to be part of a will, with her father who she hasn't seen for 12 years, and her five estranged half-brothers. Wanting to keep a distanced from her father and half brothers, will Kyla finally be able to find a least some peace among strangers and the chaos of her new world? Will she find something she never thought she could have again, a family and love? Rank(s) - #2 - reunited (08/16/2024) 1k - 02/14/2023 #2 - issues (07/04/2023) #7 - father (06/22/2023) #1 - independent (06/23/2023) #1 - overprotectivebrothers (07/04/2023) #9 - conflict #9 - father #2 - brothers (12/6/2025) #1 - olderbrother #1 - overprotective

Solus - (adj) alone or by oneself Lainey, a fifteen-year-old who has only ever known her little sister and mom, is forced to move in with her older brothers.

After she suffers a great loss, life takes Josephine St. Claire on a captivating journey of self discovery, when she is reunited with a family that was hidden from her. A plethora of siblings but a close-knit family nevertheless, one that she was purposely made an outsider from by her mother, Josephine wonders if she will ever fit in or if she's simply destined to forever walk the lonely road. [Book One]

Evangeline-bearer of good news. That's what her name meant, and that's exactly what she was. When Alessandro gets a call from a social worker in Chicago asking him if he would be willing to finally take his sister in after so many years, he is ecstatic. Finally, he had something good to tell his brothers. The exact thing they needed to fill the void in their home, their family, and their lives. When certain secrets under wraps come undone, and certain people make their way into their finally glued together family, Evie has to learn how to balance love, forgiveness, and fury, as well as the unbearable grief that came with the loss of her twin brother.

A 13 year old girl had to go through so much at just a young age. She had to see the true and dark side of the world at a time when she should be safe and happy, that too by her own mother who was supposed to protect her. She had to worry about when she would get her next food to eat, when these painkillers would do their work when the children of her age were thinking about what to wear, hang out with friends and vacation with family. Was it so wrong that she just wanted an escape?? A place to call home and a family to call hers. Meet 𝔸𝕣𝕚𝕒 , A girl who had been abused by her mother ever since her father died when she was a year old or atleast that's what she was told. She soon finds the courage to leave her house behind and run away. She is taken in by her best friend's family and has to learn to adjust to her new, dramatic and overbearing brothers and newfound family. Do they grow on her, accept her or push her away and lose her?? Join her in this story as she finds the true meaning of family, friendship, love, care and safety. What is the actual truth about her past and what made her mother make her life a living hell.....?? 𝑅𝐸𝐴𝐷 𝑇𝑂 𝐹𝐼𝑁𝐷 𝑂𝑈𝑇 ....***** Started: 9/1/2024 Status: ongoing

11 year old Aelia lives sheltered on a farm with her Uncle. Her life is spent collecting antiques, doing chores, and trying to struggle through her rough living situation. One day, her prayers are answered and her biological brothers that she never met show up on her doorstep, demanding they take Aelia with them. And suddenly, Aelia is thrown into a new life accompanied by 8 extremely loving men. All of whom are very protective, all of whom are also very much wrapped around her little fingers. Like the sun, the boys lives now revolve around her. She keeps them breathing, but many forces are trying to make them stop.

No one ever wanted Riley Knight: not her father, who made sure she didn't have any part in his or his families life; not her mother, who resented her for virtually everything; nor her step father, who has hated her since before she was born. Not even her own big brothers -- the ones who are suppose to love and protect her no matter what -- wanted her. Or so she thought. Riley is the product of an affair -- well her and her twin brother, Rome, are -- but she never had two parents. See, her father has always had "something against" the female sex and therefore, it is weak in his eyes to have a daughter. So he kept Rome and sent Riley away from the second the twins were born. He is the one responsible for turning his six sons against his youngest child and only daughter and, therefore, chaining her to a life of abuse and neglect. But did he succeed? Following her fathers death 7 years ago, Riley's brothers have taken a bigger interest in her and her quality of life, ensuring it was up to par. But all is still not perfect among the Knight siblings. Will Riley finally find her solace among her big brothers? Will they find out about the horrors she faces on a day-to-day basis? Can this family ever become one again ... or do the scars run too deep?

After the sudden death of her mother, thirteen-year-old Rayna Elise Moretti is sent to live with three older half-brothers she barely knows-Jax, Tate, and Cade-at their heavily secured estate on the outskirts of the city. What begins as an awkward, uncertain reunion quickly unravels into a tangled web of secrets, silence, and shadowy truths. The brothers are hiding something. They're overprotective, vague, and bound together by something darker than blood. When Rayna's curiosity leads her to a series of discoveries-cryptic phone calls, off-limits buildings, and coded maps-she realizes the truth: her family is deeply tied to a hidden world of organized crime. Despite orders to stay out of it, Rayna refuses to be kept in the dark.

Twelve-year-old Sofia doesn't remember her seven older brothers-not since their mother took her away at two. After her mother dies and her abusive stepfather is killed in a crash, Sofia and her four-year-old half-brother Caleb are sent to live with the mafia family she never knew she had. Quiet, bruised, and guarded, Sofia has to relearn what safety feels like in a house full of strangers....will she survive??

The Valentinos have always been a family full of energy and passion, but more often than not, these emotions get twisted into the wrong circumstances. What happens when a new face worms it's way inside the household, disturbing the familial foundation and most importantly, attempting to replace what, or who, was lost?

She was the innocence they'd all lost. And the reason they'd fight to keep what little they had left. After a lifetime of pain in the foster system, five-year-old Raelyn Fluor is finally back with the brothers who once protected her: Noah, the stoic leader with the weight of the world on his shoulders. Adam, the soft heart hiding behind dry wit and late-night texts. Oliver, the quiet storm with a past he's buried too deep. Just when life begins to feel safe again, a past drenched in blood resurfaces. What Raelyn doesn't know is that her family's legacy runs darker than bedtime stories. With love, betrayal, and revenge tangled into one mess of truth, the Fluor family must protect the one good thing they have left - even if it means tearing everything else apart.

Skylar Miller was only ten years old when everything began to fall apart. First, it was the quiet disappearances-one sibling at a time-until only three of her siblings remained in her life. Then came the accident, a day that left her with more than just physical scars. The trauma buried itself deep, woven into her every breath, her every fear, her every heartbeat. Now sixteen, Skylar lives with the weight of what happened, unsure if she's ready to face the memories she's locked away for so long. But something is shifting. One by one, the siblings she thought she had lost forever begin to reappear-some with open arms, others with walls just as high as her own. As old wounds resurface and long-held secrets begin to unravel, Skylar finds herself pulled between the pain of the past and the fragile hope of what could be. Can she let them back in? Can she trust the people who left when she needed them most? And most of all, can she find herself again in the midst of the chaos? The Beach Accident is a poignant story of loss, healing, and the complicated, beautiful mess of family. __________________________________________________________________ *TW: some themes and language may be distressing for some* __________________________________________________________________ Started: 6.01.22 Updated: 19.04.25 Finished: -

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳. -> brothers/dysfunctional family

The tale of an only girl born into a mafia family. Iris Romanov, the only girl born into both the Italian and Russian mafia was kidnapped, join her in her journey to find her way back to being herself when she's suddenly thrown back into a life with her family - a family that are strangers to her. I suck at blurbs, don't let it determine whether you read the book or not!

Daniella Florakis lived with her family. Well, not her blood family. Her mother died when she was barely ten, and she never knew who her father was. Not like that mattered. Her stepfather had been the best parental figure, and later on, her stepsister, Iris. She was content with her life. That is, until Iris suddenly runs off-no explanation, no reason known, no heads up, nothing. Feeling heartbroken and betrayed, Daniella struggles to figure out what to do next. Everything seems to be spiraling out of control until the police called, claiming to have found her family. All of a sudden, she's whisked away to California and put in a house nearly 2,000 miles away from her original home, with six older brothers she didn't even know existed suddenly appearing in her life. Daniella is thrust into a life that appears to be perfect. What complaints should she have as a long-lost heiress? However, she can't help but think something is wrong. Secrets seem to be keeping the family together barely, secrets she isn't privy to, as her brothers clearly showed. But she won't stop. She can't stop. Because these secrets not only involve her, but the truth that she thought she had been living this entire time.

Saudade- a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or has been loved, then lost; "the love that remains" Marlowe Wanless, just 11-years-old has spent the better part of her life that she can remember in the house of her abusive and drug addicted stepfather. After he has been arrested for possession of illicit substances, Marlowe's custody has been shifted to her 7 terrifying older brothers who are surrounded by rumors regarding their line of work. The Valente's now juggle healing a mentally destroyed child while simultaneously sheltering her from lurking rival business' that will stop at nothing to harm the littlest Valente. Have the rival businesses just brought more danger then her stepfather? Who can be trusted? Or the bigger question, who can't?

Eight-year-old Nova Vale arrives at her brothers' house clutching a stuffed fox and a silence too heavy for her age. Returned to the four older brothers she barely remembers, Nova is a stranger in her own family - and they are strangers to the girl shaped by years in a home that was anything but safe. As the brothers struggle to rebuild trust, they begin to uncover the truth behind their parents' deaths, the altered will that tore them apart, and the shadowy figure who's been circling Nova for years. Secrets buried in old letters, missing pages, and long-forgotten debts begin to surface, revealing a past more dangerous than any of them imagined. started : 13/08/2025 published : 26/08/2025 finished : 00/00/0000

Fifteen year old Kaylee has spent most of her life trying to survive- raised by addicted abusive parents and forgotten by her brother who were taken years ago. Now they're back, Grown. Determined to bring her back home. But home isn't a word Kaylee believes in anymore.