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Crossing Lines

Reads 658
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Parts 28
Time 5 hours, 16 minutes

Reads 658
Votes 7
Parts 28
Time 5 hours, 16 minutes

abusivefather bullying fameandpressure friendship love privateschool protective romance rugby rugbyromance scotland sports strongfemalecharacter teenfiction traumahealing

Mature Content Warning: Contains themes of domestic violence, bullying, mental health struggles, and mature situations. 

Seventeen year old Isla Morrison is desperate for a fresh start. After years of brutal bullying at her comprehensive school and living under the shadow of her father's violent temper, transferring to prestigious Kelvinside Academy feels like her only chance at survival. Her parents have scraped together every penny they have for the fees, and Isla knows she can't afford to mess this up.

All she wants is to blend into the background, keep her head down, and make it through her final year without drawing attention to the bruises she hides or the way her hands shake when voices are raised.

But staying invisible becomes impossible when she literally crashes into Callum Ross on her first day.

Callum is everything Isla isn't; confident, popular, and the star fly-half whose rugby skills have scouts from professional teams already circling. He moved down from Edinburgh two years ago and quickly became the center of Kelvinside's most exclusive social circle.But the pressure of impending fame is crushing him, and the weight of everyone's expectations is suffocating. When he meets the quiet new girl who seems to understand what it's like to carry invisible burdens, something shifts.All Rights Reserved

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