Decked

At seventeen, Joey Thompson isn't worried about grades, parties, or falling in love.

He's worried about keeping the lights on.

By day, he's a student. By night, he works every shift he can find, all while secretly raising his two younger brothers, Milo and Theo, in a house that stopped feeling like a home a long time ago. Every bruise has a story. Every smile hides another lie. And every morning, he convinces himself he can survive one more day.

Then there's Liam Astor.

Star hockey player. Private school golden boy. The kind of person who's never had to wonder where his next meal is coming from.

Their worlds couldn't be more different.

But the more Liam looks past Joey's sharp tongue and carefully built walls, the more he realizes some battles are fought far away from the ice.

As secrets unravel and the truth refuses to stay hidden, Joey is forced to confront a question he's spent years avoiding:

How long can someone keep saving everyone else before they need saving themselves?

A story about brotherhood, survival, healing, first love, and finding light in places that were never meant to have any.