TW: drug addiction Grace never imagined London would become the place she hid from her past. After leaving San Diego under circumstances she refuses to talk about, she's stuck working at Tesco, barely making rent and struggling with withdrawal from her anxiety medication. When she runs out of options, one desperate decision leads her to Afterglow-a nightclub that's far more than it seems. Harry Styles owns the club. To the outside world, it's just another hotspot in Soho. Behind closed doors, it operates by a different set of rules, and Harry is the one enforcing them. When he refuses to give Grace the one thing she came for, their lives become unexpectedly intertwined. As secrets surface, loyalties are tested, and the lines between right and wrong begin to blur, Grace and Harry are forced to confront the pasts they've spent so long trying to outrun. And somewhere along the way the two realize how much they really mean to each other. This story contains mature content. *updated at least twice a week*

it was easy accepting the past as it was. harry and ivory - high school sweethearts on track for forever. when ivory goes across the country for college, they have no doubt their future lies within each other. but things take a turn when ivory ceases contact and six years later returns to her hometown with a five year-old son. forever is splintered into a million pieces. and it's near impossible to accept reality as it is. - content warning: talk of sexual assault (SA), rape, anxiety, suicide