Everyone remembers the Lynch fire. Everyone remembers the bodies carried out. But no one remembers the boy left standing in the middle of it all. Tadhg Lynch isn't the golden Lynch boy. He isn't the baby who got shielded from the worst, or the oldest who carved a new life with a family of his own. He's the one in between. The one who saw everything, took the blows meant for his younger brothers, and carried scars no one wanted to look too closely at. Brave. Bold. Mouthy. A joker when he can manage it. And broken enough that nothing ever really sticks. Bethany Gibson is the girl who shouldn't have lived. She was three when the water took her under, when her father gave his life to save hers. She grew up in the shadow of grief, wrapped in the protection of a brother who bled for her in ways she only half understands. Sweet, funny, too kind for her own good-Bethany knows what it is to survive, but not yet what it means to live. When Bethany collides with Tadhg at Tommen, it's fire meeting oxygen-sharp words, sharp looks, a pull neither of them can shake. He's crude, cruel with his jokes, too much for anyone to handle. She's soft where he's jagged, sunshine where he's ash. He calls her Barbie. She calls him an arsehole. And somewhere between the laughs and the fights, they start to see the cracks in each other. But fixing what's shattered isn't simple. Not when trauma festers. Not when grief never loosens its grip. Not when love means putting your hands into the fire all over again. Funny. Raw. Heartbreaking. Fixing 9 is a story about the girl who wouldn't stop caring, the boy who didn't know how to be cared for, and the brutal, beautiful mess of trying to save each other when the world already tried to burn or drown you alive.

𝐀𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐈𝐆𝐆𝐒, rich, unreal, always looking like she's just stepped out of somewhere better than here. The kind of girl people turn to look at twice, even when they don't mean to. I might've fancied her once. Alright-more than once. But that was before I got any sense. Before I remembered she's his sister. My best mate's sister. And that's a line you don't cross unless you've a death wish. Still... it's hard not to look. Not when she laughs like that, head tipped back, like the whole world's in on the joke. Not when she walks past and smells like something expensive I can't even name. I don't stare. I'm not that stupid. Just the odd glance. That's all. -ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈ 𝐀𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐘, brooding, mysterious, keeps to himself. He doesn't stare too long at anyone. He's too busy focusing on that guitar of his. And I know lassies find it endearing. But I don't care. I see him around the house, the group hangs out a lot there so it's hard to miss a friend like him. I can't be interested- and it's not as if I am. Hell, he's a player from hell. And I'm heaven.

PATRICK FEELY has been hung up on his best friends girlfriend for years, wallowing in his sadness and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Things seem to change when his teammates cousin, MAGGIE KAVANAGH, moves to Ireland. For the first time in their lives, they feel seen like never before.

PART TWO Tadhg Lynch is swarmed in the mess that came along with the girl he had fallen head-over-heels for, knowing he could never return from the intense commotion that her mother's health left in her wake. Trying to cling to the parts of the girl that was still alive, Tadhg is only losing himself in the desperation to win her. Ciara Bellemore was dead. Maybe not at heart, but deep in her broken soul. She trained herself to learn how to accept-to let the only person that loved her since birth go. The only person she cared for this deeply. Chasing the desire to feel again, she intertwined herself to the boy who had ever made her feel alive in her suffocating orbit and broke all the walls down for him. She was his destined half. He was hers. Together, they were forever.

Lacuna; a blank space, a missing part. They were each other's lacuna. Olivia Astro, well known motorbike racer, is bound to a meaningless life stuck with her abusive step-dad until a certain someone breaks her free. Giovanni Santos, don of the Italian mafia, navigates being the leader of the most ruthless gang in the world and keeping his girl safe.

Delancey Grey has never considered herself extraordinary. Despite her beauty, she's always blended quietly into the world, collecting crushes but never real love. That all changes the night of a junior-year party, when she meets Gage Ryan the wealthy, reckless golden boy who seems completely out of her reach. A year later, Delancey walks into a new version of herself, and suddenly the boy who never noticed her... can't look away. By senior year, what grows between them is more than a crush, more than a fling... but one choice, one secret, one moment, shatters everything. Their almost-love twists into miscommunication, unfinished feelings, and a tension neither can escape. Some love stories aren't about perfect timing. Some love stories linger. And some follow you for years, refusing to be forgotten.

Eden McKoy has spent the last three years fetching coffees, fielding tantrums, and fading into the background at SportsWest TV. Her title might read Executive Assistant, but Eden knows she's one photocopy away from a mental breakdown. Still, she'd do it all again if it meant landing her dream job in the film industry. So when she's unexpectedly assigned to direct a high-profile documentary, it feels like the break she's been waiting for. The catch? It stars Noah Thatcher - the NHL's golden boy turned cautionary tale. Noah is every publicist's worst nightmare: foul-mouthed, infuriatingly private, and allergic to cameras. Off the ice, he's as cold and brutal as his slapshot. And Eden? She's the newest thorn in his very expensive side. Thrown into close quarters and forced to work together, Eden and Noah clash from day one. She wants a story. He wants her gone. But as the cameras roll and tempers flare, Eden starts to see cracks in Noah's armor - and he sees someone who might actually understand the weight he's carrying. What starts as a professional disaster spirals into something far more dangerous: tension, longing, and a spark neither of them expected. But when secrets resurface and the past threatens everything, Eden will have to decide what matters more - the truth behind the lens, or the man who makes her want to drop it all. Enemies. Teammates. Maybe something more. In the world of sports and scandal, one rule always applies: play to win - or lose it all. 💌 Perfect for fans of Icebreaker and the Off-Campus series-this slow-burn hockey romance is equal parts spicy, snarky, and heart-wrecking.💌

ineffable, (a.) too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words. IN WHICH vada hartley doesn't just remember-she feels. every wound, every whisper, every trace of the past buried in the things people leave behind. it's a gift. or a curse. depending on the day. sent to join the FBI's off-the-books naturals program, vada finds herself surrounded by other teens trained to see what others can't. but while the others analyze from a distance, vada sinks into the emotional weight of every case. and it's getting harder to come back up. michael townsend understands that kind of heaviness-the need to take on hurt before it has the chance to break anyone else. he recognizes something in vada that he doesn't have words for. he's not sure he wants to. dean redding sees it too. her softness. her strength. the way her pain mirrors his own in all the worst ways. the three of them are caught in something raw and unspoken, but there's no time to untangle it-not when the past is clawing its way back into the present. and vada can feel it coming. vada has an emotive memory: the instinctive ability to absorb, retain, and relive the emotional states of others tied to specific memories or environments. im simpler terms: vada doesn't just remember events-she remembers how it felt for everyone involved. she experiences emotional energy attached to people, places, and moments. sometimes it's a gift. sometimes it's too much. *lowercase intended* *BOOK 1*

𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋 ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ☆ female oc x heartbreak high characters sofia charlotte meadows never had any friends. not really. and this year, things were going to be different. she is just trying to survive hartley high with her dignity intact and her heart only mildly bruised. between chaotic friendships, unspoken crushes, and relationships that blur the line between thrilling and terrifying, sofia finds herself pulled into situations she never planned for. boys who promise the world. friends who fuck up but still feel like home. rumours that explode. parties that go too far. as she moves through first love, messy sex, loyalty tests, and public humiliation, sofia starts to realise that not everything intense is romantic, and not everything familiar is safe. sharp, chaotic, tender, and painfully honest, this is a story about sex, identity, friendship, and learning. (this is a slowburn between oc & ant!) ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ☆ 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐬 & 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐬𝐞𝐱, 𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞, 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

since hailey entered tommen school and joined the band, she has been madly in love with patrick feely. she'd do everything in her power for him to look at her, and she eventually accomplished her goal. 𝘧𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘤 𝘹 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘺