Carson Campbell the son of well known lawyers Christine, and Christian Campbell, He has alway been viewed as troubled, and reckless, but if anyone knew him how Raine Alexander did then they wouldn’t think he’s reckless and troubled. Raine Alexander the daughter of Well known surgeon Asher Alexander, and well known Lawyer Julia Alexander, couldn’t be the complete opposite but similar all at once, quiet but a party girl at heart. They grew up attending New York’s finest events all summer long alongside their parents and siblings. They even go to the same boarding school. They always have secret moments during these events, and have always had feelings for each other, but deep down have always been too scared to ever admit it, too scared to admit that seeing each other live the “party life” actually hurts one another. Two broken kids who want nothing more than to stop feeling the pressure of being the youngest and always compared to their older siblings. What happened at school between them? their parents and siblings have been wondering too, When did they start having secret moments? how did no one notice?
Madeline Hayes and Nathaniel Calloway had been enemies for as long as anyone at Blackthorne Academy could remember. Since middle school, they’d sat across from each other in classrooms trading sharp remarks, stealing first place rankings, and pretending every glance between them carried nothing but irritation. Their families only made it worse—her father owned one of the largest finance firms in Manhattan, while his father ran the company constantly trying to destroy it. At charity galas in New York, their parents barely shook hands. At school, everyone knew better than to put Madeline and Nathaniel in the same room. Which was exactly why nobody suspected anything. Nobody noticed the way Nathaniel waited outside the library after her late study sessions, leaning against the stone wall with his tie loosened like he’d been there awhile. Nobody saw Madeline slipping into the empty music hall after curfew where he’d already be sitting at the piano, fingers lazily pressing random keys while she sat beside him pretending not to smile. In public, they perfected the art of hatred. In private, they memorized each other. Their boarding school sat hours away from the city, hidden between forests and iron gates, and somehow that distance made everything feel more dangerous. During winter term, when snow covered the grounds and most students stayed inside, Nathaniel would sneak into the common room long after midnight just to sit beside her on the couch while everyone else slept upstairs. Sometimes they talked for hours about their families, the pressure waiting for them back home, and how exhausting it was constantly being compared to their fathers. Other times, they said nothing at all. The strangest part was that neither of them actually remembered when the pretending became real. Maybe it was sophomore year, when Madeline got sick during finals week and Nathaniel skipped lacrosse practice to bring her assignments she’d missed. Maybe it was the night she found him sittin
Reese morgan the hockey team captain has been in a on and off relationship with Emery Cal since they could remember, it all started in 6th grade when they finally admitted they liked each other for so long, but what happens when they constantly do things that hurt one another and cause another break up, then getting back together. They yearn for each other when they aren’t together, but can’t stay together when they are. Lots of miscommunication, secrets, and yearning. Everyone around them knows they alway go back to each other.
Sophia sat cross-legged on the counter of her apartment kitchen, half-watching some random movie play on mute while rain tapped softly against the windows. Her phone lit up beside her for the third time in ten minutes. Alex: why aren’t you at the party She stared at the message without answering, already knowing he’d sent it from somebody’s crowded basement surrounded by people he probably wasn’t even talking to. A second text came through before she could decide whether to ignore him. Alex: everyone keeps asking where you are Alex: it’s weird without you here Sophia rolled her eyes even though her stomach flipped a little, thumbs hovering over the keyboard. Sophia: you survived parties before me Three dots appeared instantly. Alex: yeah and they sucked too
Tate Monroe and Logan Hayes had been together for so long that no one remembered them apart. She was in seventh grade when the quiet reserved, yet social hockey player eighth grader with messy hair and a hockey jersey started walking her home after school, and from that moment on, they became each other’s first everything. Through high school hockey games, late-night drives, late night skate sessions together, and promises whispered under bedroom windows, everyone believed they were the kind of love that lasted forever. But forever suddenly feels harder when Logan left for his freshman year at Berkeley, the dream school they always talked about together, while Tate stays behind in their hometown to finish her senior year. What was once effortless becomes filled with missed calls, dry texts, and silence that says too much. Tate spends her nights overthinking every party picture with girls hanging onto Logan’s arm, all the fangirls, wondering if California is slowly changing him into someone who no longer needs her, not realizing he only sees her. Meanwhile, Logan can’t stand hearing about the boys suddenly surrounding Tate now that everyone assumes they broke up the second he left town, not realizing she doesn’t even give them the time of day. The distance turns small misunderstandings into heartbreaking fights. A forgotten phone call feels intentional. A tagged photo sparks jealousy neither of them knows how to explain. They both miss each other constantly, but neither knows how to say it without sounding angry, needy, or afraid. Still, beneath the miscommunication and growing pains, Tate and Logan are holding onto the same thing: the love they built as kids. Now they just have to figure out if that love is strong enough to survive becoming adults in two completely different worlds
Audrey Bennett spends every second of her life trying to keep everything together. At twenty-two, she’s a senior in college, works part-time between classes, and is raising her three-year-old son, Max, completely on her own. Her world revolves around early mornings, daycare pickups, studying late at night, and making sure Max never feels like he’s missing anything. She’s a loving mother and fiercely independent, but somewhere along the way, Audrey stopped making room for herself. Her best friend finally convinces her to go out one Friday night with their college friends, promising her one night away from responsibilities won’t hurt. Audrey almost says no—until she meets Grey Hudson. Grey is the star baseball player at their university, charming, confident, and used to getting attention everywhere he goes. Girls fall for him easily, but Grey has never cared enough to stay long. Then he notices Audrey sitting quietly in the corner of the party, completely uninterested in his reputation or flirtation. For the first time, someone doesn’t immediately fall into his orbit—and Grey can’t stop thinking about her. As he slowly gets to know Audrey, he realizes her life is far more complicated than anyone else’s around them. Audrey wants to protect the small, stable life she’s built with Max, and dating someone like Grey feels risky when her son will always come first. But Grey surprises her at every turn. Instead of running from responsibility, he’s drawn to it. He starts showing up in the little ways that matter most—late-night food runs while she studies, helping fix Max’s favorite toy, sitting on the floor playing dinosaurs without caring who’s watching. What begins as attraction slowly turns into something deeper as Grey falls not only for Audrey, but for the life and family that come with her. And Audrey begins to wonder if maybe love doesn’t always have to take away from the life she built—maybe, with the right person, it can make it stronger.
This story follows Madison and Andrew as they try to fight their feelings out of fear of hurting Mason and ruining the closeness between their families, only to realize they were always going to fall in love no matter how hard they tried not to.
Scarlet Holden and Jack St. Clair had lived next door to each other and gone to the same schools their entire lives, but they barely ever spoke. That changed the summer before senior year when Scarlet’s mother died unexpectedly just one month before school started. While everyone else kept their distance, Jack quietly became the one person who stayed by her side through the grief. As senior year begins, the pair who never really spoke to each other became a relationship she can’t imagine getting through it without.
Every summer, the Gerard and Maxston families return to their massive shared estate in the The Hamptons — the house that practically raised their children alongside them. Their parents grew up together long before wealth, private schools, and business empires came into the picture, and when they built lives of their own, they made sure their children were raised just as closely. So despite living in different states during the school year — the Maxstons in the luxury of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, surrounded by their family’s elite law firms, and the Gerards tucked into the hills of California while their parents run businesses across the world — summers, holidays, and vacations have always belonged to the four of them together.
Our parents grew up together in this town, and all decided to move back after college. My mom and dad eventually had my brother Elijah, and soon after My parents best friends, Carol and Erick Lane had Theodore Lane, theo for short, they raised them together till i came along a year and half later, We all grew together having sunday dinners together, summer law vacations, and even camping trips. My room window overlooks his window, and when he can sleep he comes over. Our families have always teased us, and have always said we’ll get married eventually, but we’re so clueless for how we really feel for each other. Theo is dating kayla peterson, the captain of the cheer team, and i’m with Alex Morris, soccer captain. We have always gravitated towards each other but have always denied our feeling for each other, we don’t know how to stop hurting each other without realizing.
Blair and Aria met in seventh grade after being paired together for a history project, and from that day on they were inseparable. Sleepovers turned into practically living at each other’s houses, and Blair quickly became just as much a part of Aria’s family as Aria was of hers. What Blair never realized was that Aria’s older brother, Greyson, had been in love with her almost from the start. A year older and way too protective, Greyson spent years scaring off any guy that looked at Blair too long, covering it up as him “looking out for his sister and her best friend.” Even with the constant arguing and irritated eye rolls between them, everyone could see there was always something underneath it. When Greyson got to ninth grade, he started dating someone, and the year after that Blair got her own boyfriend too, but neither relationship stopped the tension between them. Their fights became quieter, sharper, hidden behind closed doors and away from Aria and their partners — jealous comments, lingering looks, and arguments that sounded a little too personal to just be friendship. Now it’s Blair’s junior year and Greyson’s senior year, and after breaking up with his girlfriend over the summer, Greyson is done pretending he’s over her. The only problem is Blair still has a boyfriend, and the closer Greyson gets to finally admitting the truth, the messier everything between them becomes.
In the world of old money, private galas, and billion-dollar legacies, futures were decided long before love ever had a chance. Sage Alcott and Dean Blythe grew up in the same elite circle, attending Heartwood Private school alongside the children of CEOs, politicians, and investors who had all been promised to one another since childhood. When Sage and Dean were ten years old, their parents made an agreement: one day, they would marry and merge the Alcott and Blythe empires into something even more powerful. Knowing their lives had already been planned made everything between them cold and distant growing up. They avoided each other whenever possible, refusing to give their parents the perfect love story they wanted. At school events, country clubs, and lavish vacations, they acted more like strangers than two people destined to spend forever together. Dean hated how controlled his future felt, while Sage refused to become another obedient daughter trapped in a life built for appearances. But during senior year, their parents begin pushing harder than ever for them to attend charity galas together, pose for magazine interviews, and make public appearances as the future golden couple of their social world. Forced into each other’s lives constantly, the walls they built over the years slowly begin to crack. Beneath Dean’s quiet resentment is someone who understands Sage better than anyone else ever has, and beneath Sage’s sharp defenses is a girl terrified that maybe destiny was never the problem — maybe it was how badly she wanted it to be her choice. What starts as obligation slowly turns into stolen late-night drives, whispered conversations after parties, and a love neither of them expected to find in the person chosen for them long ago.
Rowan and Wren have been best friends since childhood, they’ve always been attached to hip… some might say a little too attached. What happens when wren decides that she can’t keep waiting around for rowan to realize she loves him and decides to go out with baseball captain cameron, will rowan care then?. For as long as they’ve known each other eveyone always thought they were together, they acted together without even realizing it but when it’s time to answer the big question they’re constantly being asked “are you guys together?!”, the answer is never what wren wanted.
Ever since meeting freshman year at Boston University, June Hastings and Drew Beckett had been inseparable. What started as random run-ins around campus, late-night study sessions, and Drew convincing her to come to hockey games quickly turned into the kind of relationship everyone around them envied — steady, loyal, and impossible to break apart. Neither of them knew at first who the other’s family was. To June, Drew was just the charming hockey player she accidentally fell for, and to Drew, June was the girl who made Boston feel like home. It wasn’t until months later, once things between them had gotten serious, and they got to know each other better that they realized their fathers were former NHL rivals. June’s dad and Drew’s dad had both played hockey at Boston University decades earlier before becoming famous rivals in the NHL. Even now in retirement, the two men didn’t exactly get along, though years had softened the tension into something quieter when they announced to their parents they were together and didn’t know about each other before getting together, it surprisingly went well, their dads weren’t upset. They stayed together through all four years of college, through Drew getting drafted into the NHL, and now through his first season playing professionally. Living together in the city where Drew plays, June working as a psychologist for the hospital nearby, june has been beside him through every part of his dream coming true, and after the best year of his life both on and off the ice, Drew knows there’s only one thing left he wants: to ask the girl he’s loved since freshman year to marry him.
Mason Brooks wasn’t used to girls not wanting him, until Ayla Cross transferred to lakeside highschool sophomore year. They met at a party soon after, she rejected him, he was intrigued. It’s not Senior year, He is still trying to get her to like him, She keeps fighting it, but he keeps pushing it. Do they end up together?
Ever since they were little, everyone knew twins Rowan Reefs and River Reefs came together. Same friends, same schedules, same parties, same late-night drives after his soccer games. River was the louder one — the captain, the golden boy everyone loved — but Rowan was never far behind, and the two had always been inseparable. But the summer before senior year, River and his girlfriend were killed in a tragic car accident, and everything in Rowan’s life collapsed with him. The girl who used to laugh easily became quiet, cold, and impossible to reach. She stopped answering texts, stopped playing soccer, stopped showing up, stopped letting anyone close enough to see how badly she was breaking apart. Her parents watched helplessly as grief turned her into someone they barely recognized. Everyone eventually gave her space — except for Hayden Rick’s,rivers best friend and teammate. No matter how many times Rowan pushed him away, hayden refused to leave. Because while everyone else mourned the captain they lost, hayden mourned the girl who disappeared with him.
Book 2/3 🤭 Allison and Eason have known each other practically their entire lives, he’s been her twin brothers best friend since kindergarten which automatically brought along his sister. Eason has always play flirted with allison sometimes to piss Asher off sometimes because he simply wanted to, but allison is tired of all the mix signals, and he doesn’t understand why she’s pulling away. The core six has been the core six since kindergarten. Fallon and Allison Taylor met first on the kindergarten playground before class, which automatically brought along her twin brother Asher Taylor who was in the kindergarten class next door, who had already made friends with Easton Wrigley, and Reid Lake, later that day Fallon and allison brought along Aspen Grange during lunch which completed the core six, They are are all so different, yet gravitate completely to each other all the time. Everyone wants to be part of their group but the core 6 is the core 6.
Briar and Sebastian grew up next door to each other, he pinned over her their entire childhood, she spent their entire childhood trying to build the courage up to tell him she like him it felt like they had a lifetime together to be able to say it out loud, up until her parents divorced when they were 12 leaving briar to move to her moms childhood home they tried to keep in touch, but it was hard to with their new lives… on the weeks she visited her dad back home during the summer, he was out for baseball training camp, so eventually they stopped talking. The summer before she started her junior year her mom unexpectedly passed away, leaving her with no choice to move back home with her dad, for good. How will things be between them ? Will old feelings come up? How will it be at school together again?
The Callahans, Harts, Atwoods, and Armers have spent decades tangled together through hockey, family traditions, and friendships that started back at Westbridge University. Their kids grew up side by side, raised more like cousins than family friends, sharing everything from vacations to late-night bonfires after hockey games. Delaney Callahan and Khai Hart were always at the center of it all best friends who spent years teasing, arguing, and pretending they didn’t care too much about each other. But senior year changes everything. As graduation, college decisions, and hockey scouts begin pulling their futures in different directions, Delaney starts noticing the way Khai waits for her after class, the way he watches every guy she talks to, and how no girl he dates ever seems to last long. Meanwhile, Khai can’t ignore the fact that the one person who’s always felt like home is suddenly the only girl he can’t stop thinking about. What starts as friendship slowly turns into something deeper, risking the one thing both of them are terrified to lose the families that have always tied them together.
Preston has always kept Astrid at arm’s reach since they were 16 years old, close enough to kiss her, text her constantly, get jealous and possessive of her, and spend most of his time with her, but he never fully commits, he’s still involved with some girls from time to time, and it hurts her, but he always chases the second she pulls away. they’re now in their sophomore year of college, and still dealing with the same issues. He makes her feel like they could be soemthing until his actions prove otherwise.
Aria Bennett and Harley Callahan had been best friends since elementary school. What made their friendship so inseparable was the running joke that one day they’d actually become sisters because everyone knew Aria and Harley’s older brother, Holden, were destined to end up together eventually. By middle school, that joke became reality. Holden and Aria intertwined so naturally into each other’s lives that nobody could remember a time they weren’t together. He was her first love, first heartbreak, and the center of every future she imagined for herself, and she was his. They grew up tangled together through football games, summers at the lake, late-night drives, school, her showing up to all his baseball games, and endless conversations about the life they’d have someday at Berkeley College in Los Angeles. It was their dream school, their plan, their future. Everyone around them thought they were inevitable. Everyone called them destined childhood sweethearts. Until Holden left for college and destroyed it anyway. Three months into his freshman year at Berkeley, after weeks of distance, jealousy, and late-night phone calls that always ended in tears, Holden broke up with her. He told her he loved her too much to keep missing her every second of every day. That being apart was ruining him. Then he let her go like it was the only way to survive, while Aria was left behind to fall apart without him. A year later, Aria arrives at Berkeley carrying the version of herself Holden created in the wreckage. She’s colder now, quieter, impossible to read. The sweet girl who once would’ve followed Holden anywhere barely exists anymore. But Holden isn’t the same either. The once protective, soft-hearted boy she loved has turned reckless and self-destructive, hiding behind parties, girls, and a reputation that barely resembles the person she knew. The worst part is he still looks at her like she belongs to him. And Holden can’t stand that she barely looks at him at all anymor
Every summer, the same families returned to the small beach town of Bellport Cove sprawling oceanfront homes, yacht days, country club dinners, and parties that lasted until sunrise. Rory Bentley and Easton Norris grew up in the middle of all of it, even though they lived in different towns during the year and went to completely different schools. Summers were the only time they ever saw each other, which somehow made everything between them feel even more intense. What started as stolen kisses on docks and late-night drives with the windows down turned into something far too intense for two fifteen-year-olds who didn’t know how to handle it. One terrible night at the end of August ruined whatever they were, and by the time they went back home for the school year, they stopped speaking and texting completely. After that summer, they both started dating other people, posting relationships all over social media like they had moved on, even though every picture, comment, and story only made the other more bitter. The summer after that was spent avoiding each other all over town. Now, two summers later, they’re back in Bellport Cove for one final summer before senior year. Their families still seeing each other at the country club, and other elite events, their friend groups still overlap, and avoiding each other in a town that small is impossible. Every bonfire, every beach party, every country club event becomes another silent stand-off between them lingering looks across crowded rooms, tension nobody understands, and conversations that always die before they begin. Neither of them has moved on as much as they pretend to have. But after two years of silence, pride, jealousy, and misunderstandings, Rory and Easton don’t know how to fix something that broke before either of them was old enough to understand what they were losing.