Ever After High Family Tree Novels & Stories

My name is Elena, and I died at twenty-two. My parents forced me to take my foster sister’s place and traded me for a territorial alliance. My mate was the most volatile heir of the wolf packs. Beaten bloody and fading fast, I made my eighth call for help. At my adopted sister Seraphina’s birthday party, she played the recording of my final, groveling plea—and laughed. My parents listened to those desperate calls with nothing but irritation, dismissing each one as theatrics, an inconvenience unworthy of their time.

By the time I had reached the table, maja, aunt Samantha and Ruby my redhead cousin had set up the table for dinner already. She glanced over at me but I made it clear I was not in for a family reunion moreover we were never close so I didn't see a point why we'd have to pretend to have loved each other back then. "Good evening mom, dad" a masculine voice dragged my attention and I looked up to find Elvis, Adeline and Jasper; their other children. One thing I found fascinating about them was how they all shared their parents genes amongst themselves. Elvis and Adeline took uncle Fidel's Hispanic gene with dark skin and curly hair while Ruby and jasper took aunt Samantha's italiano mixed Ame

I muttered, my eyes focused on the document. Taking a deep breath, my fingers carefully opened the file, and instantly my world fractured. It wasn’t just infidelity or mere financial manipulation. It’s lineage. Legacy. Theft was woven so deeply into history that it felt unreal. Lucy Hawthorne, no. She was never meant to be a Hawthorne. Lucy Hale. The long lost Hale family, the true foundation beneath Hawthorne wealth. Records of a car accident decades ago were all present. A parents declared dead, a child missing, quietly erased.

Madam Lavigne recalled tales from her youth, of The Order's secret rituals, their complicity in hiding truths to maintain power. As dawn crept in, gray and unforgiving, a chilling realization struck: the family tree revealed another branch, a hidden heir from Father's youth, before Mother. Could that be Shay? Not sister, not wife, but something else? The pieces shifted, threatening to topple my understanding.

It’s entirely possible her family was never the goal or only part of their ultimate goal. For them to want to drain me of my spiritual energy to create their weapon, they must have something else planned other than for Mina to take revenge on her family. Not that it matters now. The chances that both of them are already dead are high. They are dumb shits for fucking with Zane Shadows' little girl. I don’t know how they didn’t put those pieces together, as I figured it out pretty quickly that Ever was most likely related to him as not many people have the last name Shadows. It’s also known that he and his familiar have children. Maybe they didn’t think Zane was a threat. I don’t fucking know

I didn't know any other family members growing up. My mother had two brothers. Colton and Evan. So, Evan is my uncle. He has taken over from his own father as the head of the Hunters. That might explain why he is so determined to get me. Maybe I am the last stain on their family history. The last member of the family who is somewhat supernatural.

When the rogues kidnapped me, my father, my brother, and my fiancé wouldn't even give three hundred dollars as ransom. Yet they threw tens of millions dollars at my adopted sister's birthday celebration while I was butchered by rogues who never got their payment. The adoptive sister’s parents died saving me, and after my family took her in, she became the center of attention—and the most important person—in our home. But when they got my death finally, they all fell into deep sorrow.

Sean told the rest of the family about Olivia the following morning. He was going to bring her back to the Fordham Residence. He called Olivia over and said, "The Fordham family is massive. We have a hand in multiple industries. The main family used to be quite lively and had been steadily growing. "Things started to go downhill after Avery was diagnosed with kidney disease. Troy is almost never home, and Vox is even more elusive. After Quinn's death and my traffic accident, Jacqueline was the one keeping us afloat."