AJ Lynch has always relied on sports and family that was it for him, but he's always kept his eye on one girl but she never seemed to notice him. Bridget Campbell never really cared about friends only her ones from BCS all she cared about what her four brothers, but when them three cousins came in her life everything changed.

Rory Kavanagh has everything he thought he wanted. A professional rugby contract. Fame. Family who love him. A future laid out in gold. But when a chance encounter in a Dublin supermarket brings him face to face with her-Lana McGarry, the girl he once loved and walked away from-Rory's world tilts. She isn't the reckless fifteen-year-old who used to steal his heart in the backseat of his car. She's twenty-one now, tougher, guarded, and carrying more than just her own weight. She's a mother. Lana never planned on seeing Rory again. Not after London fell apart. Not after her family disowned her. Not after Jamie-the baby she refused to give up-became her whole world. She's built her life out of scraps and stubbornness, surviving on her own, and she won't let anyone, least of all Rory Kavanagh, make her feel small again. But Rory isn't the boy who left her. And every time he pushes past her defenses-every time he reaches for Jamie like the boy was always meant to be in his arms-Lana feels that dangerous spark catch fire again. Now Rory has to decide if he's willing to risk everything he's built for the only girl he's ever loved. And Lana has to decide if she's brave enough to believe him this time. Because some first loves never really end. And some second chances cost everything.

Sixteen-year-old Isla Feely has always been the good one - the girl who listens, studies, smiles when she's supposed to, and never gives her parents reason to worry. Sixteen-year-old Jamie Biggs is the opposite - London transfer, rugby boy with a brain full of chemistry equations and a heart full of everyone else's problems. He's the one who fixes things. She's the one who makes people feel safe. When Isla and Jamie's worlds collide at Tommen College, what starts as shared study sessions and shy glances turns into something neither of them saw coming - first love, pure and bright and terrifyingly real. But the summer brings cracks neither of them are ready for. A party in L.A. changes everything, and Isla comes home carrying a secret she can't tell anyone. Not her parents. Not her brother. Not even Jamie. As she spirals further into silence, Jamie's left trying to hold on to the girl he loves while his own family battles to stay afloat. Set in the heart of Cork, Isla & Jamie is a story about first love and first heartbreak, about what happens when the world stops feeling safe - and the courage it takes to start breathing again. Tender, devastating, and full of hope, it's a portrait of two teenagers learning that love doesn't fix you - but it might just help you survive long enough to find yourself again.

Caoimhe Kavanagh Sixteen, quiet but stubborn. Always the good girl, the rule-follower-until Aidan. She's smart, a little lost, and suddenly in way over her head. But she's all in. Heart first, logic later. Aidan Holland Seventeen, bruised in more ways than one. Loyal, guarded, and trying like hell not to ruin the one good thing in his life-Caoimhe. He's never had soft before, and now he's terrified to lose it. Set in early 2010s Cork, Finding 17 follows sixteen-year-old Caoimhe, the girl who's always done everything right, and Aidan, the boy born into everything wrong. Their secret connection ignites-messy, reckless, and impossibly tender. But as lies pile up and threats close in, they'll both have to choose: stay safe or risk everything for a love that was never supposed to happen.

𝙊𝙋𝙃𝙀𝙇𝙄𝘼 𝙇𝙔𝙉𝘾𝙃'S fury was a storm that broke loose the second she saw her sister go down. Without a second thought, she mistook 𝙅𝙊𝙃𝙉𝙉𝙔 𝙆𝘼𝙑𝘼𝙉𝘼𝙂𝙃 for the culprit and decided he deserved a dose of his own medicine. Grabbing the rugby ball, she launched it back at him with a force that was all raw, righteous anger. Johnny saw her, and in that moment, the entire world outside of her seemed to fade away. He was a boy who lived and breathed the game, but her sheer intensity pulled his attention off the pitch. It wasn't her body he noticed first, but her eyes-the color of whiskey, sharp and defiant, framed by dark lashes that contrasted with the soft, rebellious pink in her hair. He noticed the way she swallowed hard, as if choking down words she couldn't dare to speak, and the way her jaw tightened before she unleashed a snarky remark at his best friend, Gibsie. He was captivated. But he knew, with a certainty that was both thrilling and terrifying, that girls like her came with a warning label. They were the ones who broke you and then laughed as you bled. Still, a dangerous instinct told him that to let her walk away would be a regret he'd carry forever. ♱ ᴏᴘʜᴇʟɪᴀ ʙʀɪᴅɢᴇᴛ ᴍᴜʀᴘʜʏ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʜɪʟᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ʟᴏᴠᴇʟᴇꜱꜱ ᴀꜰꜰᴀɪʀ. ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ʜᴀꜱ ʙᴇᴇɴ ʙᴇᴀᴛᴇɴ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴀɴᴅ ɢᴜᴛᴛᴇᴅ ʙʏ ʜᴇʀ ᴏᴡɴ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ. ᴛʜᴇ ʏᴏᴜɴɢ ɢɪʀʟ ᴡʜᴏ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴅᴏɢ. ꜱʜᴇ ʙɪᴛᴇꜱ ᴅᴏᴡɴ! ꜱʜᴇ ᴇᴀᴛꜱ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ! ʙᴜᴛ ꜱʜᴇ'ꜱ ꜱᴄᴀʀᴇᴅ, ᴄʀʏɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʀᴀʏɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ᴀ ᴡᴀʏ ᴏᴜᴛ! ♱

Gracie Mae Gibson. The quiet Gibson. The local babysitter and aspiring author. The sunshiny girl that everyone adores. Twin sister to Bethany, and younger sister to Gerard- Gracie Mae was everyones favorite girl. However quiet girls are quiet for a reason. Secrets are kept and guilt is swallowed and somewhere along the lines she forgets all those rules she once made and gets lost in the green eyes of the boy she shouldn't ever want. Tadgh Lynch. The hothead kid. Joey 2.0. The superstar athlete and walking teenage heartbreak. Struggling to move on while everyone around his seems to be fine- Tadgh is fighting to stay above water, unaware of truth. Full of anger and pure teen emotions. All he wants is to escape the horror of his childhood. Distracted and hopelessly falling for the quiet blonde, which her nose in her books and her heart locked away. On a mission to befriend her- to be her friend. Lines are crossed, hearts are broken and secrets exposed.

It was a cold and rainy day like it so frequently was in Cork, Ireland. To most people it was an ordinary day of going to work or off to school,but for Mazzy Kennedy it was the day that changed her life. New school, new people, and what felt like a whole new world compared to what she was used to.

Mallory Lynch was sixteen when Phoenix Feely ruined her. He was eighteen. A guitarist in a sticky Cork pub band. My mam's best friend's son. The boy my Da warned me to stay away from. Phoenix didn't want me either. Too young. Too sweet. Until he did. But one late-night gig. One jealous glance. One stolen kiss. And suddenly, I was his favorite mistake. First love feels like freedom... Until it breaks you.

Edel doesn't do soft. She doesn't do safe. And she definitely doesn't do sober. She walks into BCS with sharp eyes, dirty secrets, and an addiction she pretends she controls. A dead father. An alcoholic mother. A home that never felt like one. Until John Kavanagh. John has money, a future, and a family that still works. A life Edel was never meant to touch. Different worlds. Same school. She doesn't need saving. He doesn't know he's trying anyway. Some girls don't run because they're reckless. They run because staying would kill them.

Bridget Lordan-Dempsey has spent years building walls. Sharp tongue, party-girl reputation, late nights and empty smiles - it's easier to play the screw-up than let anyone see the truth: the scars, the hunger, the constant fear she's already too much and never enough. AJ Lynch has never stopped loving her. Not when she shut him out, not when two years of silence stretched between them, not even when one messy, furious kiss cracked everything wide open again. He hides his feelings under rugby matches, cocky smirks, and bad choices, but Bridget has always been his first weakness. His only weakness. What starts as a reckless deal - rules, secrecy, no feelings - spirals into something neither of them can control. Heated hookups in hidden places turn into movie nights and old treehouse confessions, and every time Bridget swears she's out, AJ pulls her right back in. But loving each other has never been the problem. Trusting each other? Surviving the weight of family, reputation, and the ghosts of their own mistakes? That's what might break them. Because if Bridget lets AJ all the way back in, she knows one truth she can't run from: She won't survive losing him a second time.