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Lauren Brooke Fantastic

Bloomed into Him

Amethyst never asked to be part of a world carved from bullets and blood. Sold by her father to a cold, powerful mafia boss — Luciano Valeri — she expected a life of fear, silence, and chains. What she didn’t expect was the war between his brutal coldness and the quiet, burning love he tried to bury beneath it. Luciano was dangerous. Distant. A man raised to never love what he couldn’t control. But with Amethyst, control slipped — and love, fierce and possessive, bloomed in the cracks of their ruin. As the two are forced into a volatile marriage, what begins as hatred simmers into slow-burning obsession, reluctant loyalty… and then, a love that threatens to break them both. But the past never dies easily — and when betrayal strikes from within, Luciano gives everything to protect Amethyst and the unborn children he never thought he’d live to want. Now a widow and mother of twins, Amethyst rises from broken girl to steel-spined matriarch. She rebuilds the empire Luciano left behind, raises their children in the shadow of a man they never met, and holds his legacy like a weapon and a prayer. Years later, the twins — Adrian, cold and commanding, and Serafina, quiet and ruthless — grow into living echoes of the father they lost and the mother who refused to fall. This is a story of love born in darkness, sacrifice carved in silence, and a family built on fire, blood… and the soft, unshakable things that survive even after everything else burns.
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What we never said

Fourteen was supposed to be an in-between year — too old for dolls, too young for love. But for Cara, it became the year everything changed. When her brother’s best friend, Callum Adler, starts spending more time at their house, Cara notices things most adults ignore. The bruises. The quiet. The way their mother starts folding extra laundry like it’s second nature. Callum's broken home becomes a secret the whole family carries, and Cara — wide-eyed, overlooked, and quietly growing — starts to fall for him in all the ways she shouldn’t. But Callum is four years older. Eighteen. Off-limits. Almost a man. And despite their quiet moments — the almosts, the shared glances, the night she asked to kiss him — he walks away without a goodbye, leaving her in the silence he helped create. Years pass. Cara grows. Builds a life. Finds herself. By eighteen, she’s no longer just Kaden’s little sister. She’s her own person — confident, loved, maybe even happy. But everything tilts when she runs into Callum again at a skating rink. Older, composed, and entirely unexpected. He’s not the same boy who used to sleep on her couch with bruises on his ribs — and she’s not the girl who watched him leave. But unfinished things have a way of circling back. Told in alternating perspectives of Cara and Callum, What We Never Said explores the slow burn of first love, the ache of timing, and what it really means to grow up — and grow apart — before finding your way back.
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