Adoptive Synonym

Our family is planning a ski trip at a luxury resort. However, my mother gives my snow-view room to my adoptive sister and makes me, her biological daughter, stay in the storage room. I'm about to protest when my father and brother accuse me of being selfish. "We've always given Madie the best of everything; she won't be able to sleep in any other room." "Madie is our family—she's the one who's lived with us this whole time. We're a family, so we have to stay together." I'm the one who shares their blood, yet they consider me an outsider. If that's the case, they can go on vacation without me. I board a cruise and travel the world for a month without ever going home. That's when they panic.

I struggle with all my might, but Dad restrains me, and Mom breaks my limbs. Then, my sister seals me into the concrete. "Concrete is only brought to life with an actual person sealed inside. It looks so much more defined! It's not like you'll die after being sealed in there for a few days. How can you be so insensible?" The pain of having my limbs broken and my oxygen being cut off leads to me dying within that block of concrete. My body rots and festers inside, but my soul sticks around to watch how my parents dote on their adoptive child. They seem to be happy without me. Finally, I lose all hope in them. But when the liquid from my body seeps out of the concrete, they all lose their minds.

Revenge was her only reason for living. Alice wanted them to feel the same pain she endured. Her heart died along with him the day he died. She would never love another. She was trained to have no compassion and to show no mercy, but what will happen when Alice finds out everything she was told was a lie? What will she do when her whole reason for living changes? Kevin was adopted by the most feared mafia leader. When he came of age he took over from his adoptive father. He kept his promise he made her when they parted. He searched for her as he promised, but what happens when he found her and finds out she is their clans sworn enemy and not the same girl he used to know what will he do?

Iris never imagined that she could fall in love with an immortal creature who was known to be so cruel. Was it about her having a strange fetish with that creature, or because of her charm that couldn't make her eyes blink for a few tens of seconds. Jonathan Hickman, the demonic figure most feared by the demon hunter organization. His first encounter was like an ocean of magic. Bewitched by the figure of Iris who gave herself up to avenge the deaths of her adoptive parents. But unfortunately, Iris was chosen to be one of the members of the demon slayer where the main target of the organization was to hunt down Jonathan. The two intersecting roads miss each other. Need each other. How will the story continue? Will Iris betray her friend or will she have to let Jonathan die at her friend's hands? Read the full story in this novel.

Alpha Dennison was despised by all in the land for his ignorant and rude social opinions. When his son Malachi takes the Alpha position, the new Alpha knows he has many critical expectations to disprove. However, there is one person who isn't concerned with Alpha Malachi's dealings.... Ariella lives a quiet life with her adoptive parents. In order to cope with her tragic past, she paints fairytales on the world as she sees it. The quiet forests and meadows are her canvas, her dreamland where nothing can hurt her. When these two wandering souls cross paths one fated day, they realize another reality exists beyond the ones they individually perceive. And where only the sacrifice of a mate can truly save one another. Will they accept being mates or will they fight it? Read to find out!

In this part of the world, every werewolf is given a chance to have two mates. Omega Aria has already found her first mate, Prince Wade, and wants nothing other than a bright future as his Luna. Things are fine until Aria's adoptive parents discover she has a great destiny, as well as a powerful mate. They want the same for their daughter, Bree, and that's why they want Aria's wolf, thereby forcing her to undergo the wolf-swap rites, which to Aria's surprise, Wade fully supports. Aria's wolf is swapped with her step-sisters, and as a result, she is left with an unexpected mate who changes her life and the course of her destiny forever. Will she overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of fulfilling her path in life even without her wolf? Find out in Fated To The Wrong Mate.

Separated by an accident that took the lives of their parents, Lily and Layla turned from sisters to strangers. They each start a new life after getting adopted into new families who lived hundreds of miles apart. Lily maintains her identity while her sister's adoptive parents change her name to Joan Lewis. years later, their world crossed as Lily fell in love with Harvey in college and Harvey happens to be her best friend and childhood of Joan Lewis. But Joan did not want their relationship to end there as she had fallen deeper in love with Harvey. Fueled by jealousy and anger, Joan hatches a plan to kill Lily not knowing Lilly is her long-lost sister. Unfortunately for her, Lily survived only to face Harvey's strict mother who has vowed that only Joan could marry Harvey.

Eighteen years of abuse under an adoptive mother's cruel hand left Faith broken and wolf-less. When a shocking truth that she is the stolen daughter of the Eclipse Pack's Alpha is revealed, Faith expects a new beginning. Instead, she finds herself an outcast, neglected by her biological parents, and targeted by a manipulative 'sister' who seems to hate her. Forced into an engagement with the future Alpha of the Eternal Night Pack, Astor her true mate. Faith faces a new torment. Astor, poisoned by lies, sees her as nothing more than an obligation, while his pack shuns the Luna-to-be who cannot shift. After 3 years of enduring everything, she decides to leave and start her life afresh, but Astor realises that you don't know what you have until it's gone...

Maya hates werewolves. Why wouldn’t she? They killed her parents in the Blood War and they killed her adoptive parents only son. They were welcomed in the town but left only pain, grief and ruin in their wake. The town life is simple after the Blood War, live your life and hate werewolves. Her life becomes a bit complicated when a mysterious boy moves into town and joins their elite private school. Their attraction is magnetic and intense and this new emotion gives Maya a different sense of things, she falls for him, fast and hard. But what happens when he tells her what he truly is? And even worse, when she finds out what she is? Will their messed up relationship stand the test of the truth coming to light or will it break just like the trust she had in him?

*Please be aware this is technically books 1 and 2* Laura was convinced for the longest time that Xander, her pack's future Alpha, was her destined mate. Even if it was against the current Alpha (Clide) and Luna's (Ashly) wishes she was certain they would be together. Well, that all changed the day Alpha Victor arrived and she learned her fate. She was to marry this Victor, whose cruel, terrifying, and mean reputation seems true. To make matters more complicated Laura learns the truth behind the so-called rouge attacks that have been plaguing her pack since her birth, not only killing her own parents but many other innocent people. With the help of her best friend Ellen, adoptive big brother Domini, and Bella will she be able to handle her arranged marriage and fight off the looming threat?