THE WATTYS SHORTLIST 2025 Aurora aka. Rory Westbrook is on a mission to create her own story. Ecstatic to receive an acceptance letter to her dream university in Los Angeles, California, she's ready for a fresh start. For as long as she can remember, she has dreamed of leaving behind her dysfunctional family and privileged upbringing to create a new life outside Greenwich, Connecticut. Enter Nate Johnson, the embodiment of everything she despises. He's an arrogant playboy, campus jock, and worshipped by everyone who meets him - except her. But he's also relentless, charming, and an unfairly gorgeous football star. But as they collide time and time again, the lines between enemies and desire begins to blur and they can't ignore the sizzling chemistry that continues to draw them closer together.

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Never in a million years did I think I would cross paths with him again. Michael Woods. The boy who broke my heart. The boy who picked hockey over me. The boy who left me behind. After giving three years of my life to him, it was all over after his college graduation. He went his way and I went mine. But I never imagined landing a job at his agency when I moved to Boston four years later, let alone as his assistant. A job that's meant for me to service him, do as he asks, and give him all smiles. So, I play the part. I play the nice, kind, sweet assistant in public and ignore him like my life depends on it in private. The thought of getting close to him again terrifies me because I know. I know that once I let him again, I'll never be able to let him out. And if I do, it'll be at the cost of my heart, and this time he'll leave it broken beyond repair. I used to think he was forever mine. But hockey changed everything. What would he do now if he had to make that choice? Me? Or hockey? Or both? . . . ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TRIGGER WARNING: Mention of death by accident and depression

You've been touring stateside for months. Sold-out arenas. Flashing cameras. Headlines that dissect your love life more than your lyrics. Your boots hit stage floors in New York, Nashville, LA - and every night you end up in a dim dressing room, phone propped against a makeup mirror, whispering goodnight to a boy thousands of miles away. Your Swedish boy. William Eklund wasn't supposed to be more than a summer thing. A training camp charity event. A night that blurred into laughter and a stolen kiss under California fairy lights. But now? Now he's the one you call when the adrenaline fades. The one who watches you through a screen and says, "You don't have to be that girl with me." Opening up makes headlines. Missing him makes songs. And somewhere between FaceTime kisses and cross-country flights, you both have to decide- Is love strong enough to survive being stateside?

Blurb: Joey Lynch has never known softness. With his older brother gone, an abusive father looming, and the weight of four siblings on his back, Joey's learned to survive by shutting the world out - with fists, fire, and heroin. But just when the darkness feels permanent, a quiet voice begins to pull him out. Keira Kavanagh is known for her kind smile, her gentle presence, and her last name - sister to Johnny, Tommen's golden boy. No one sees the secrets she carries. No one knows that behind her perfect mask lives a memory she's buried deep, one that still haunts her every breath. He's chaos. She's calm. He's breaking. So is she. And yet, when they collide - it's not perfect. It's not pretty. But it's honest. It's healing. And maybe, just maybe, it's enough. Set in the world of The Boys of Tommen, this is the untold story of two souls surviving what they never should have had to - and holding on to the kind of love that demands to be fought for.

Book One ⋆˚˙✧˖° ⋆˙✧ Aine Lynch is the third eldest Lynch child. Battling against depression and her own parents she juggles her own life and the life of all the little Lynches in her hands. However, when she gets knocked to the ground by a 6'2, muscular number nine everything changes. For the worst? Or for the good? Cillian Kavanagh is an emerging rugby star. Following in his older brothers footsteps he pushes himself for the best. Unlike Johnny, Cillian wasn't gifted with sports 𝘢𝘯𝘥 academic achievements. Struggling to scrape passes Cillian hides his results from his parents and takes to the only thing that can help him escape. ⋆˚˙✧˖° ⋆˙✧ 𝙍𝙀𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙂 9 Trigger Warnings! • Graphic detail • Mental Health • Mentions of suicide • Mentions of self harm • Drug addictions • Language • Sexual Assault • Underage drinking/dealing • Neglect • Abuse • Fighting

Fiadh Kavanagh is the youngest daughter of John and Edel, with her older brother Johnny being a superstar rugby player she's always been in his shadow. Edel and John have taken the lynch children into their home,helping Joey(the eldest lynch) with his addiction to drugs. But while doing that,they fail to realise just how bad their own daughter's addiction has gotten. tags #1-boysoftommen #1-gibsie #1-gerard #1-shannon #1-lizzie #1-hughie #2-cork #1-johnny #8-boys #10-addiction

Boys like Johnny Kavanagh - steady, talented, adored - don't look twice at girls like me. Girls who take medication with breakfast. Girls who have to track their moods in a notebook. Girls who get tired for no reason. Girls who feel everything too much or nothing at all. And I know better than to imagine someone like him ever stepping into my orbit. He's a big deal, around Tommen, around Ireland. And I'm just... me. Quiet. Careful. Trying. Always trying. Boys of Tommen AU

Parker Heyes has spent her whole life proving she belongs on the ice. At nineteen, the spunky brunette from Victoria, British Columbia is already making waves with Team Canada and the Toronto Sceptres in the PWHL. She's talented, loud when she's comfortable, terrible at talking about herself in interviews, and somehow always one bad decision away from chaos. Macklin Celebrini is Canada's golden hockey star - focused, disciplined, and already carrying the weight of the entire hockey world on his shoulders. Off the ice, though? He and Parker are practically the same person: competitive, sarcastic, stubborn, and incapable of backing down from an argument. After both Team Canada squads strike gold, Vegas seems like the perfect place to celebrate. One night out turns into too many drinks, terrible ideas, and a wedding neither of them remembers until they wake up wearing matching rings and trending all over social media. An accidental Vegas marriage is bad enough. An accidental Vegas marriage between two nineteen-year-old hockey stars? Career-ending PR nightmare. With both their agents demanding they "fix this" before the media tears them apart, Parker and Macklin are forced into damage control - fake smiles, shared appearances, and pretending their marriage might actually work long enough to avoid a scandal. The only problem? The more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to remember this relationship was supposed to be temporary. number 1 in #friends june 3rd 26 Started: may 11th, 2026 Finished: june 14th, 2026 final word count: 102,957