Lacey Love Keane has always known how to outrun the past. Lip gloss sharp, heels higher, and heart locked up tight. But in Ballylaggin, the secrets don't stay buried, and the people you love don't always stay yours. Lacey's learning what it means to stay. To build something real. To be seen-and loved-for who she is, not who she's been. But loving Johnny Kavanagh is anything but simple. Because he's choosing her in secret, while the rest of their world falls apart in broad daylight. But nothing stays hidden forever. When ghosts from Lacey's past arrive with teeth, the fragile world she's built starts to crack. As friendships splinter and loyalties blur, the truth threatens to blow everything apart - especially when Lacey is forced to choose between protecting herself, or finally letting someone else try. Meanwhile, Johnny's caught between the girl who's tearing his world open-and the life everyone else built for him. To love Lacey means standing still when he's meant to run, and fighting battles that aren't his - yet somehow feel like they always have been. In a town that loves to talk, a secret love can't last forever. She's chasing her youth. He's chasing her. And the truth? It's catching up with them both.

Lacey Love Keane is a hurricane in heels. At 17, she's got a reputation for being the girl who doesn't need anyone but everyone seems to need her. A fiery mix of wild confidence, untamed charm, and a heart that refuses to be caged, Lacey moves to Ballylaggin to live with her Aunt Orla. Far from her life in London, Lacey doesn't plan on sticking around long but a series of complicated relationships might just change that. When she reunites with Patrick Feely, the boy who used to be her summer sidekick, sparks fly. But it's Joey Lynch, the bad boy with a heart of stone, who's the real problem. They're two sides of the same coin: both emotionally unavailable, both fiercely independent. And neither one knows how to stay away from the other. Then there's Johnny Kavanagh, the one guy who makes her feel things she's spent years trying to avoid. He's everything Lacey doesn't want to want, and he knows exactly how to push her buttons. But what happens when the lines between hate, attraction, and something deeper start to blur? Ballylaggin won't be the same once Lacey Love Keane sets her sights on it. She's a storm waiting to happen and it's going to tear everything apart.

forelsket (n.) the euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love. ---- "Fuck you." "When and where?" ---- Fem oc x Male oc Soccer/party girl x mechanic/nerd boy #1 - shannonlynch #1 - hughiebiggs #1 - johnny #1 - ireland #1 - johnnykavanagh #1 - rugby

Isabella King - Is the world's youngest seventeen-year-old, most sought-after model, elegant, untouchable, and unknowingly tied to the infamous mafia Rossi family. Leonardo D'Angelo - A twenty-one-year-old Mafia Don, his hands have snapped necks like twigs and carved warnings into flesh. Blood follows wherever he goes. He makes a lesson out of every scream, every broken bone, every body left rotting in his name. When fate reunites her with the bloodline she never remembered, old wounds resurface and the past she never remembered begins to bloom.

"Fuck Bambi, you're so perfect." "Do you hate me?" I ask, he grazed my cheek, his eyes looking back into mine as he lowered his head, his lips grazing mine. "You could kill me and I'd still crawl back to you, dead or not." "I don't know what love is, but fuck, if what we have is love than I want nothing else but it." ---- Ashform Reform Institute isn't a school-it's a sentence. A prison disguised as a second chance, where every student has blood on their hands, a crime on their record, and a secret they'd kill to keep buried. Elavenna Vale doesn't belong here. At least, that's what she tells herself. But survival at Ashform means playing by its rules-stay quiet, don't ask questions, and never trust the wrong person. Especially not Rook Elias Vaughn. He's chaos in human form. A fighter with bruised knuckles, secrets none knows, and a secret life. He has his own reasons for being here, and Venna should stay far, far away. Unfortunately, that seems impossible when they have to share a dorm. But when students start vanishing, and the school's walls close in like a noose, she realizes something horrifying-the worst monsters aren't locked outside. They're already here. And if Venna isn't careful, she'll be next. ---- #1 - Reform School

Alica Nokav had always fight to survive. She decided from an early age not to believe in love or kindness. Because people were love you wouldn't treat you like you were nothing. So she taught her to feel nothing, and became strong. She tried to escape her past and moved to Thunder Bay, and she wanted to start a new life. But then everyone turned around and her past caught up with her faster than she thought. And suddenly she met a guy who would change her whole life. Damon Torrance had always to fight with demons. Demons in his head and demons in his life. He never believed in love anymore since Winter Ashby send him to jail. After prison he became a complete different person. Damon Torrance knew that he was fucked up, but he didn't care. But he didn't expect that he would care, when he meet a blonde girl who would turn his whole life upside down.

Eve Beckett, the girl with a broken soul. She has just transferred into Pembroke College as a sophomore, craving a fresh start after a rocky freshman year. Growing up in an abusive home with an absent mother and an violent father, Eve is set on never falling in love, using dance as her way of escape from reality. What happens when she bumps into a familiar face on campus, who gave her a bad impression? Carson Blake, the school golden boy. The quarterback of Pembroke college has a perfect life, a perfect family, he's got girls at every turn and is undeniably attractive. But he still feels that biting feeling in his heart that he's felt since he was a kid. In the Blake family, carrying the Blake name makes or breaks your position in the family. What will happen when the stress gets to Carson? Is there such thing as soulmates? And do Carson and Eve fit the criteria? Can they handle just being friends? And when hardships come in the way, rude families, ex crushes, the past. Can they make it out alive? Read to find out more about Eve and Carson's story. Third book in the 'Winning Hearts' series BUT can be read as a standalone. ౨ৎ ౨ৎ ౨ৎ ౨ৎ Started: { 1 July 2024 } Finished: { 15 January 2025 }

𝐗𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐎 has only ever known two things: pain and the high that numbs it. He grew up with split knuckles and a busted lip, learned early that the only language the world respected was violence. The ring became his church, blood his offering. Every punch he throws is a confession; every hit he takes, a reminder that he's still alive. Xavier doesn't chase love - he doesn't believe in it. He chases the next round, the next hit, the next distraction strong enough to silence the ghosts clawing at his skull. He's a sinner with nothing left to lose. Until her. 𝐋𝐔𝐂Í𝐀 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐀 has hips that lie and a mouth that doesn't. Her eyes don't just hold secrets, they dare you to find them. With a sharp tongue, and a stare that could gut a man clean, she's the kind of girl you pay to watch but can't afford to touch. Stripping is her stage, survival is her art, and silence is her weapon. She doesn't believe in happy endings, love? She's never spoken it. Everyone keeps their distance, she ruins everything she touches, they say - he isn't afraid to get cut. He's already bleeding. When a siren meets a sinner, who ends up drowning first?

Arabella never meant to get close to someone like him. Warren is reckless, unreadable, and surrounded by rumors that make people run. But the more she's warned to stay away, the more she wants to know why he hides behind those walls...and why he can't seem to stay away from her either. ────୨ৎ──── Warren Reid is a name everyone in town knows, and not for good reasons. He left a student unconscious before disappearing into juvie, and now that he's back, the rumors are worse than ever. With a past that whispers warnings and a reputation that silences rooms, Warren is used to being feared, not understood. Emotions are weaknesses in his world, and vulnerability has never been an option. Until her. Arabella Winters is the picture of perfection and the last girl anyone would expect to cross paths with someone like Warren. Smart, sweet, and sheltered, she follows every rule her parents set, never once stepping out of line. But one knock on Warren's door throws her into his world, and nothing is the same after that. Everyone says he's trouble, but Arabella doesn't see the monster they all fear. She sees someone broken, someone hiding wounds no one else bothers to look for. What starts as innocent curiosity turns into something neither of them can ignore. She's drawn to the shadows he hides in, and he can't stay away from the light she doesn't even know she carries. Now Arabella has to ask herself: is she helping Warren escape the darkness...or is she just letting it swallow her too? (EXPECT CRINGE AND CLICHES!!) (UNEDITED)

Amber was scared and lost after the tragic death of her father. Amber and her family now have to make it through life without him. When all could go wrong some mysterious man appears and gives these 3 girls an opportunity to go to a private school. When amber and her sisters attend this school they start getting some suspicious notes telling them this don't belong. This book is about a group of teens and there lives and how even people who seem perfect may not be. (Disclaimer I took inspiration from another book)