Retrieving 14

Catriona Walsh lost everything in one single second. Her twin sister, her future in football, her life as she knew it. A year later, she moves to Cork with her newly divorced mother and enrolls in Tommen College. She's not the same cheerful, sarcastic girl she used to be. She's learning to live her life without her second half by her side, without her dream. Everyone tells her moving to Cork will be her fresh start, but she doubts them. Until she meets AJ. The blond, charismatic and genuinely nice rugby player that makes it his mission to get to know her, retrieve the old Catriona.

AJ Lynch. Son of Joey Lynch, former drug addict, and Aoife Molloy, genuine badass Queen of a mother. Older brother to Aurora and oldest cousin to the Lynch-Kavanagh clan. All AJ wants to do is make his parents proud. To show his father that him getting sober was worth it. He wants to bring his all to every rugby match, do his best in school and spend time with his two best friends. He does everything right, all of the time. He won't let himself be less than perfect so that his parents don't need to worry. Because they've had a hard enough life already. It can get heavy putting so much pressure on yourself, never truly allowing yourself to be a teenager. On his first day of sixth year, he meets her. Catriona Walsh. There's something about her, something that intrigues him, draws him in. He decides that he'll be the one to figure her out, to retrieve the person locked away behind those gorgeous brown eyes.

Catriona needs to remember how to live and AJ needs to learn, can they help each other?

TW:

Grief/Sibling Death
Anxiety