The book that Beau Maxwell deserved.

Thalia Alvarez-Richardson's life changed forever the day she found out she was pregnant at eighteen. While she was preparing to become a mother, the man she loved walked away, making it clear he wanted nothing to do with either of them. So Thalia did what she had to do. She put her dreams on hold, raised her son, Rome, on her own, and built a life from sheer determination. Three and a half years later, she's finally ready to finish the future she sacrificed. With her energetic toddler in tow, Thalia moves into an off-campus house just across the street from the infamous Hawk House, home to Briar University's loudest, messiest, and most chaotic athletes. The last thing she's looking for is romance. She's here to earn her degree, give her son the life he deserves, and keep her heart safely out of the equation. ༄.° Beau Maxwell has plans of his own. Between football, classes, and the pressure of securing his future, a relationship is the last distraction he needs. But there's one girl he can't seem to stop noticing. The quiet brunette who's always rushing somewhere, checking her phone and leaving class a minute before they're dismissed. She never lingers. He never works up the nerve to say hello. Until the day she moves in across the street from his best friend. Sometimes the right person finds you at the worst possible time. Sometimes they arrive carrying a super hero backpack, a sleepy toddler, and enough emotional baggage to fill an entire moving truck.

❝ and i told my friends i was asleep but i never said where or in whose sheets ❞ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 emmy flores gets cheated on, loses what little remained of her dignity, and makes the incredibly questionable decision to start hooking up with beau maxwell to forget about it. (beaumaxwellxfem!oc)

Ella Grace Graham has spent her entire life learning how to survive pressure. As the younger sister of Garrett Graham, Briar University's hockey golden boy, expectations follow her everywhere. On the ice, she's one of the fiercest forwards in women's college hockey. Off the ice, she's exhausted from carrying the weight of a last name tied to talent, perfection, and a father who only knows how to love conditionally. Control is the only thing keeping her together. Then there's Beau Maxwell. Briar's star quarterback is everything Ella avoids: charming, reckless, social, impossible not to notice. She's known Beau for years through Garrett and the hockey house chaos. He's always been there in the background of her life, all easy smiles and late-night parties and sarcastic comments thrown across crowded kitchens. Until suddenly he isn't background anymore. Somewhere between shared classes, early morning practices, brutal family expectations, and conversations that stretch too long after midnight, Ella starts realizing the most dangerous thing about Beau Maxwell isn't his reputation. It's how safe he makes her feel. But friendships like theirs come with rules. Don't stare too long. Don't touch too much. Don't wonder what kissing your best friend would feel like. And definitely don't fall in love with someone capable of ruining you. As Briar's hockey and football worlds collide, relationships deepen, secrets unravel, and the line between friendship and wanting becomes impossible to ignore. Ella and Beau find themselves trapped in the terrifying space between almost and actually. Because some people become part of you quietly. And some loves arrive like a car crash: fast, beautiful, and impossible to survive unchanged.

We Keep Living In A Burning House. ⎯ Beau Maxwell x Fem!OC ( with John Logan x Fem!OC ) @ girlsguilt , July 2026

Book 5: Everyone knew Beau Maxwell. The golden boy. The guy who could walk into any room and make everyone believe he had it all figured out. Jamie knew the truth. She knew the boy behind the perfect smile. The one who stayed up too late thinking about the future, who carried the weight of expectations on his shoulders, and who loved harder than anyone gave him credit for. Beau Maxwell was never supposed to be temporary. He was supposed to be the person Jamie grew old with. The person she called after every win, every bad day, every moment that mattered. They were supposed to have more time. More memories. More chances. But life doesn't always give you a goodbye. Sometimes, the person who means everything to you is gone before you're ready to let them go. Now Jamie has to learn how to live with the pieces of a love story that ended too soon. Holding onto the memories they made, the promises they shared, and the parts of Beau that will always stay with her. Because losing someone doesn't mean losing the love you had for them. And before Beau Maxwell left, he gave Jamie something she would never forget - a love worth remembering.

Sloan DiLaurentis didn't mean to find a home in Briar's hockey house. But somewhere between the midnight kitchen conversations, shared hoodies, and Beau Maxwell showing up at her door every night asking to cuddle, the house-and the people inside it-started feeling like hers. Beau was never supposed to be more than harmless flirting. Except now he knows her coffee order, sleeps better beside her, and looks at her like she's his favorite thing in the world. And Sloan's starting to realize she might feel the same way. Too bad keeping secrets in a house full of hockey players is almost impossible. Especially when everyone already knows they're in love. Everyone except Dean.