Fighting Four

Four years ago, the fire took everything.
At fourteen, Tadhg Lynch is a weapon on the hurling pitch and a terror in the hallways of Tommen College. He wears a cocky grin like armor and wields lethal sarcasm like a shield. With his younger brothers safely tucked away in the luxury of the Kavanagh mansion, Tadhg should be at peace. Instead, he is drowning in a silent, suffocating depression, quietly slipping down the exact same dangerous path of addiction that nearly destroyed his older brother, Joey. He is a boy running on fumes, waiting for the match that will finally set him ablaze.
Then came Aisling.
Fierce, hotheaded, and burdened by a devastating past, Aisling transfers to Tommen carrying the heavy ghosts of her parents' tragic deaths. Living in a cramped apartment with her older brother and his girlfriend, she protects her fragile, grieving heart behind walls of pure defiance and an explosive temper. She doesn't do friends, she doesn't do pity, and she definitely doesn't do Tadhg Lynch.
But when their chaotic worlds collide at the start of Third Year, the masking stops. Aisling sees straight through Tadhg's untouchable swagger, and Tadhg recognizes the hollow, dark ache hidden behind her fiery outbursts. They are mirrors of the same shattered glass, bound by a trauma that threatens to swallow them both whole.
In a world determined to break them, can two damaged souls find a way to mend, or will they burn each other to the ground?