When the rain finds us

Sixteen-year-old Aoife Banes has spent the last three years hidden away from the world.

Homeschooled after anxiety slowly turned classrooms into battlefields, Aoife has grown used to silence, safety, and staying unnoticed. But when she's forced to attend Redwood College - an elite private school tucked away in the Irish countryside - she's thrown into a world of crowded hallways, whispered gossip, rugby matches, and people who seem far too confident for her quiet heart.

Especially Declan Thompson.

Redwood's rugby captain is everything Aoife tries to avoid: popular, confident, devastatingly handsome, and impossible to ignore. With piercing blue eyes, a sharp tongue, and a reputation that follows him everywhere, Declan should be the last person to notice the shy brunette with trembling hands and guarded green eyes.

But he does.

And once he notices her, he can't seem to stop.