Was hoping you'd come home. I don't care if it's a lie. - This is the sequel to Hit Me Hard.

Effy works nights at a shitty bar in a shitty part of LA, lives in an even shittier apartment with a leaky ceiling and a stray cat that refuses to leave. She's all rough edges and way too used to life handing her the short end of the stick. Nothing ever comes easy, and if it does, it probably wants something in return. Then this girl walks in. Easy laugh. Soft eyes. Looks like sin in a bandana and moves like the world's hers for the taking.

Evangeline Davenport has never heard the word no. Born into privilege and raised to rule every room she walks into, she's smart, magnetic, and untouchable. College is just another stage for her to own-until she meets Billie Eilish. Billie is everything Evangeline isn't. Unimpressed. Unfiltered. Impossible to control. Their dislike is instant, their rivalry fierce, and neither is willing to back down. But when hate starts to feel a lot like desire, the rules change. Lines blur. And soon, Evangeline is playing a game she's never played before-one she can't win without risking the only thing she's never given away: her heart.

Violet Winter learned the hard way that nothing lasts forever. After losing her mother and surviving a relentless battle with leukemia, she built walls around herself, walls no one had ever dared to break through. Letting people in meant risking heartbreak, and she had already lost too much. But then came Billie Eilish. With her, life became lighter, funnier, worth living again. But when your body still carries the scars of the past, how long can forever really last?

Alana Spencer is an Air Force pilot from New York, built on discipline and distance. But when she meets Billie Eilish - all chaos, warmth, and intensity - her world tilts. Can you fall in love when your heart belongs to the sky, and your duty is to your country?

the world is watching now. every glance. every touch. every kiss. fans, paparazzi, the press - they are hungry for a story, desperate for cracks in the perfect picture. on the surface, sabrina carpenter is still everything she's supposed to be: polished, perfect, in love. but loving billie eilish in private was easy. loving her in public? that's another story. and somewhere, hidden behind the cameras, something darker is still waiting. because heat doesn't disappear. it lingers. and some flames don't burn out. they just find new ways to spread. SMOKE the second chapter in the "HEAT" series [lowercase intended]

on the surface, sabrina carpenter is everything she's supposed to be: polished, perfect, straight. but when a single look from billie eilish makes something shift, the cracks in her carefully crafted image start to show. billie, who has always known exactly who she is, recognizes that look instantly. she knows what it means. and she's curious. the air between them is warm at first - just a flicker, a glance, a harmless pull. but heat rises. and once it starts, it's impossible to ignore.

Elizabeth Rose is a poised and perfectly mannered British socialite, raised among tiaras, traditions, and table settings with more rules than feelings. Engaged to one of England's most powerful men, she lives a life of elegance, wealth, and quiet suffocation. But when she meets Billie Eilish at a high-profile gala in London, everything shifts. Billie is chaotic, blunt, wildly American, and couldn't care less about etiquette or expectations. Their worlds were never meant to collide, yet their connection is instant, magnetic, and far too dangerous. As the wedding draws near, Elizabeth finds herself torn between the life she was born into-and the one person who makes her feel truly alive. In another life, it could have been them. But this one is already spoken for.