Redhaven Athletic was once a name people feared. Now, it is a club people barely remember. Buried in debt and one season away from bankruptcy, Redhaven makes one final gamble on disgraced coach Rowan Keats. With no money for stars, he signs the players everyone else has already given up on a fading veteran, a goalkeeper who freezes under pressure, a captain torn between football and family, a midfielder haunted by scandal, a wonderkid worth more than the club can afford to keep, and quiet eighteen-year-old Kian Doyle, whose prestigious family has never believed football could be enough. Their first match ends in humiliation. The press calls them Redhaven's Rejects. But somewhere between impossible fixtures, injuries, dressing-room chaos, family struggles, contract offers, hospital visits, unexpected friendships and terrible jokes, a collection of unwanted players begins becoming something none of them expected. A team. Now Redhaven is fighting for more than promotion. Bigger clubs are circling their young stars, careers are running out of time, families need security, and an investor willing to save the club may destroy everything it stands for. Because sometimes saving a team means knowing when to fight for someone and when to let them go. The first half may already be over. But their story isn't.

The Hartwells are the kind of family everyone wishes they had. They own a beloved neighbourhood restaurant, raised successful children, and built a home filled with loud arguments, shared meals, and laughter that never seems to end. To outsiders, they are perfect. But perfection is only what people see from the other side of the table. Gwen is a brilliant lawyer trapped in a marriage where her husband's silence hurts more than his mother's cruelty. Theo works endlessly to provide for his wife and son until one devastating truth destroys the family he believed was his. Sera is fighting to save her career from a plagiarism scandal while living beneath the shadow of the sister she has always been compared to. And Luca? Luca is the carefree youngest. The one who appears at his sisters' workplaces asking for coffee. The one who steals food from Theo's plate, annoys Sera's fiancé, and complains about everything as though nothing could ever truly hurt him. So when Luca tries to tell them something is wrong, no one takes him seriously. Not until he disappears after a painful argument. Not until the police find him sitting alone on a bridge at midnight. And not until dangerous men enter Hartwell's Table with a signed loan agreement, demanding money for debts Luca swears he never made. Suddenly, the youngest son everyone thought was fine becomes the reason the entire family must return home. To protect Luca, the Hartwells will have to confront everything they buried: broken marriages, betrayal, jealousy, resentment, guilt-and all the words they were too afraid to say. Because sometimes a family does not fall apart when they stop loving one another. Sometimes they fall apart because they love deeply but forget how to listen.

The victims have nothing in common except the violence of their final moments. A student enters a restricted building and never returns. A family home burns while someone remains deliberately inside. Another teenager commits an act so horrifying that even the surviving witnesses cannot explain it. Police classify the incidents as isolated tragedies. Schools respond with counselling programmes. Officials warn about academic pressure, online influence and concealed emotional distress. Families are left to grieve while official reports suggest that the victims made their own choices. Then the evidence begins repeating itself. An unusual substance appears in separate toxicology reports. Symbols emerge at unrelated locations. Damaged phones produce the same brief sound before their data disappears. At the same time, an eighteen-year-old student begins changing. He stops eating. He barely sleeps. He vanishes during school hours and returns with injuries he refuses to explain. His anger becomes increasingly unpredictable, yet no one can identify what is controlling him. When one missed moment causes everything to collapse, police finally discover a possible connection between the living and the dead. But finding the pattern is only the beginning. Somewhere behind an ordinary screen, someone is waiting for the next person to obey.

At twenty-seven, Sienna, Camille, Naomi, Jade, and Harper have everything under control. Successful careers. Carefully planned futures. Strong families. A friendship that has survived university, demanding jobs, heartbreak, promotions, and every bad decision in between. The only thing they no longer trust is romance. So they make a pact. For three years, until they turn thirty, none of them will date. No secret relationships. No returning to an ex. No distractions. They will focus on their careers, protect their friendship, and prove that love is not necessary for a woman to build a complete life. It should have been simple. One by one, all five women break the pact. And none of them admits it. Each believes she is the only traitor. Soon, flowers are blamed on clients, thoughtful gifts become corporate rewards, family introductions are disguised as business meetings, and respectable men with serious careers are forced to pretend they are consultants, vendors, neighbours, and complete strangers. The women may be experts in law, architecture, media, business, and technology, but when it comes to hiding love from one another, they are absolutely terrible. As the three-year deadline approaches, their careers are thriving, their relationships are becoming serious, and the lies are growing impossible to maintain. Because falling in love was never the real problem. The real problem was believing they had to hide it. Fifth Avenue is a clean adult romantic comedy about five successful women, five good men, one impossible promise, and the beautifully ridiculous chaos that follows when friendship, ambition, family, and love all collide.

When Evelyn and her long-term enemy, star hockey captain Atlas, are forced to work together on a university media project, sparks fly as resisting their attraction becomes a far bigger challenge than their opposing opinions. Standalone in the Wellsfield University Series ***** Evelyn Hayes has hated Atlas Griffin, the golden boy of their university hockey team, since their very first conversation three years ago. To Evelyn, he's the womanizing, arrogant epitome of rich privilege and everything she despises. So when a university-funded media project for the hockey team throws her into Atlas' orbit, she fully expects them to be at each other's throats. What she doesn't expect is for the snarky comments and daring glares to turn into sparks of undeniable attraction. With Atlas' sights set on the NHL and Evelyn desperate to keep the media lead position she's worked so hard for, neither is interested in anything complicated. Soon, a heated one-night stand leads to an enemies-with-benefits hookup pact. But is either ready to face the consequences when the lines blur and strings start to get attached?

In order to go on holiday with their friends, mortal enemies Kai and Joey make a pact to be civilized with each other for the entire duration of the stay. Joey already thinks this is going to be the hardest thing she's ever had to do in her life...and then she learns that they have to share a room. Standalone in the Just One Kiss series *** When her friends decide to plan a group holiday for the summer, Joey Winters doesn't expect the one person she hates the most to be a part of the plan, and she certainly won't let being around Kai Rutherford affect her rules: never forgive, never forget, and never fall in love. Not only does she have to breathe the same air as him, she's expected to share a room - and a bed - with him too. Determined to make this work, Joey and Kai enter into a pact: they have to be civilized with each other all summer. If they don't, their friends will force them to stay in the creepy cabin included in their rental. Alone. Between passive aggressive compliments, late night arguments, and moments of confusing sincerity, Joey starts to wonder if she's had Kai wrong all along. And, just maybe, her friends will finally find out why she really hates him.

Everyone thought Aveline Hart was lucky. Beautiful, fair-skinned, hazel-eyed, intelligent, and deeply loved by her family, she seemed to have the kind of life people could only dream of. She was the beloved daughter, the excellent student, the graceful girl who smiled even when the world was unkind. But being almost perfect came with a price. People admired her, then judged her. They praised her, then searched for her flaws. Friends became strangers. Kindness was mistaken for arrogance. Silence was mistaken for pride. No matter how carefully Aveline lived, someone always found a reason to hurt her. In high school, she once had a quiet crush on Theodore Hayes, the boy everyone admired. He was intelligent, serious, respected, and one year older than her. To Aveline, he was impossible to reach, so she buried her feelings and moved on with her life. Years later, Aveline is thirty and working at a research center. She has achieved success, but love and friendship have never stayed. Around her, people still judge, whisper, and misunderstand her. She begins to believe that maybe the world will always be against her. Then Theodore returns. Now a respected university professor, Theodore Hayes is no longer just the unreachable boy from her past. He is calm, mature, and certain of what he wants. When their lives cross again, he sees the pain behind Aveline's smile and the loneliness she has hidden for years. And unlike everyone else, Theodore does not leave. As he slowly enters her guarded heart, Aveline must learn whether she can trust a love that feels too sincere to be real. But Theodore is not interested in a temporary romance. He wants her future, her broken pieces, her quiet fears, and the life she never believed someone would choose. A heartfelt romance about family, friendship, healing, and a woman who spent her life being misunderstood-until one man finally chose to stay.

Nathaniel Cross had loved Celeste Arden long before she ever knew his name beyond the popular boy everyone admired. Fourteen years later, an unexpected reunion and one nervously requested phone number turn two familiar strangers into inseparable friends. Between awkward messages, demanding careers, family laughter and quiet acts of devotion, Nathaniel becomes the person who always stays. But when devastating loss leaves Celeste struggling to recognise her own life, friendship begins to feel dangerously like love. He fell first, from a distance. She fell later, with everything she had.

Evelyn Shen has built a flawless life from sleepless nights, impossible expectations, and a career she cannot afford to lose. As the manager of a prestigious hotel, she knows how to solve every crisis with a perfect smile. Yet behind closed doors, chronic migraines and insomnia reveal how close she is to falling apart. After the man she trusted betrayed her, Evelyn stopped believing that love could exist without a price. Her parents, however, are determined to arrange the respectable future they believe she owes them. When her worsening health brings her to Dr. Adrian He, a quietly perceptive traditional medicine physician, she expects a prescription, not someone capable of seeing through every excuse she makes. Adrian has also abandoned love after learning how easily promises can be broken. But when they discover they live in the same community, chance meetings gradually become shared meals, midnight conversations, and a tenderness neither is prepared to name. Just as Evelyn begins choosing the life she truly wants, her former boyfriend returns with the power to threaten her career, while her parents place their approval beyond her reach. Caught between the perfect future chosen for her and the imperfect happiness she has found for herself, Evelyn must decide whether protecting her heart is worth losing the one person who never asked her to pretend.