Forbidden lovers

For as long as they can remember, JJ Maybank and Tessa Routledge have been two halves of the same chaotic coin.

Best friends through every storm the Cut could throw at them, they've secretly been in love for years. But crossing that line means going to war with the ultimate obstacle: John B.

Tessa's older brother has a strict, unbreakable rule about no pogue-on-pogue macking-and JJ is at the very top of his blacklist.

Between JJ's volatile home life and crushing past trauma, and Tessa fighting a daily, silent battle with her own severe anxiety, holding back was a survival mechanism. They knew how to survive the Cut, but keeping their feelings hidden was a different kind of torture.

When a late-night secret changes everything, the line between friendship and everything-they-ever-wanted shatters.

With John B watching their every move and the weight of their own demons threatening to drag them under, JJ and Tessa have to decide if a love this electric is worth losing everything else.

Are they ready to risk it all for each other, or will the secrets they're carrying tear them apart before they even get a chance?