Vivienne Monroe may live in a beautiful house now, but she knows what it's like to feel unwanted. Adopted at nine after surviving a childhood of neglect, she's learned to keep her past buried beneath perfect smiles and quiet grace. No one at her elite school knows where she really came from - and Vivienne plans to keep it that way. Joey Lynch never had the chance to hide his scars. With an abusive father and a mother too scared to leave, Joey carries the weight of his five siblings on his shoulders. His escape? Drugs, alcohol, and fleeting hookups - anything to feel something other than anger. When Vivienne and Joey's worlds collide, their connection is undeniable. She sees the pain behind his sharp edges, and he finds comfort in her soft presence. But Joey doesn't know the truth - that Vivienne isn't the rich girl he thinks she is. And Vivienne is terrified that if he finds out, he'll see her the way she's spent years trying to forget. Two broken hearts. One chance at love. But some secrets are too heavy to stay hidden forever. ----- joey lynch x fem!oc ©liawrit3ss

For Joey Lynch, the world was never anything but a rotten, cruel battlefield. Born on a holiday meant for light, he was instead forged in the darkness of an abusive legacy, forced to become a protector before he was even a boy. He is a creature of trauma and raw survival, forever battling the seductive, drowning pull of addiction that promises a final escape. But there has always been a light in the dark for him. Just a singular, defiant spark: Estella, his sister's best friend. She is a magnificent anomaly, a walking, breathing sunbeam in his grime-coated life. Her hair is a shock of bright, liquid silver, catching the light like spilled moonlight, framing a face that is dizzyingly, charmingly cute. Her eyes, wide and unnerving, are the colour of molten silver.When she stares up at Joey, meeting his trauma-hardened gaze with her impossible luminosity and a cheeky, uncompromising grin, he knows: she is trouble. The necessary kind. He has lost everything: his peace, his innocence, his stability. But she is the one thing that can never slip away. Not when he snarls and retreats like a cornered animal; she simply stares, her bright eyes unsettlingly steady, and deploys that silly, confident grin. God, he is putty in her hands. The temptation between them is a physical, humming wire, stretched taut for years. But when they finally give in-when the shadow reaches for the light, and the light does not pull away-things dare to take a turn for the worse. As Joey fights his darkest demons, trying to fend off his violent father and the relentless grip of addiction, he discovers that the girl who glows has been quietly burning, too. They need to decide if this fierce, hard-won love can genuinely tame all the anger and war within them... ... and if a single, silver light is truly the answer to all the world's rot.

Amaya Kavanagh has lived her whole life in her brothers shadow. An elite athlete in her own right she is fighting to find her own place in the world. But when someone starts a smear campaign against her - can she navigate her way through it with the help of her newly expanded family.

Shayne Lynch grew up fast. With a drunk for a father, a mother who stopped trying long ago, and too many siblings to count, she's been protecting everyone but herself for as long as she can remember. She's angry, closed-off, and surviving on sharp edges and stubbornness because it's the only way she knows how. Keagan Holland was supposed to be a statistic. Just another smart mouth from the wrong estate. But behind the quiet eyes and second-hand clothes is a mind no one bothers to see, too brilliant for the world he was born into and desperate to prove himself to the people who've already decided what he is. They come from the same broken place, but they've always been different. For years, they orbited each other, finally giving in to the soul tie between them. How long can teen romance last before something goes wrong? Sixteen is supposed to be the beginning of everything. For Shayne and Keagan, 16 is when everything changed. ----------------------------------------------- Hey guys!! So this story follows too original characters. Shayne is Shannons twin sister and Keagan is Shane Hollands younger brother. The plot is based on accidental pregnancy and will follow thier journey from the start of their relationship, to parenthood. In this version Joey and Aofie dont have Aj because i felt like that would be a bit too much. (also I know that Shayne and Shane are the same name but I didn't connect the fact that Shane Holland was called Shayne until i already decided to call the female character that so i just stuck with it. Thank you for choosing to read and i hope you enjoy :)