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POGUE FICTION

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TWO MONTHS TILL FOREVER

He was the last man you would ever marry. Unfortunately, you were never given a choice. You’ve always been more Pogue than Kook, despite being born into the wealthy Carrera family. Your heart belongs to the Cut, the Chateau, and the people who have always felt more like family than your own parents ever did. But when your family’s restaurant, The Wreck, begins to crumble financially, your parents make a deal that will change your life forever. Their solution? Marry you off to Rafe Cameron. With the wedding only sixty days away, you’re sent to Tannyhill to get to know your future husband. There’s just one problem: you can barely stand him. And if you’re expected to spend the rest of your life married to him, you might as well get used to sharing his bedroom now. Forced to live under the same roof and sleep in the same room as the boy you’ve spent years despising, you’re expected to learn to coexist with someone who represents everything you stand against. Meanwhile, the people you love most have no idea what’s happening, and keeping your new life a secret becomes harder with every passing day. You never asked for Rafe Cameron, his money, or the future your parents have chosen for you. You’re a Pogue at heart, he’s a Kook through and through, and neither of you is prepared to surrender the life you’ve always known. But sixty days is a long time when you’re sharing a bedroom with the boy you’re supposed to hate. And sometimes, the person you never wanted can become the one you never expected to need.

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THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE

Being a Kook means knowing exactly where you belong. At least, that’s what your family has spent your entire life telling you. What they don’t know is that you’ve spent years helping the very people they’ve taught you to look down on. The Pogues have never asked for your help, and you’ve never asked for their gratitude. You’ve always preferred it that way. Until JJ Maybank catches you sneaking supplies to the Chateau and decides you’re nothing more than a Kook with an ulterior motive. JJ doesn’t trust you. You don’t particularly like him, either. But while he’s determined to expose your little secret, you’re determined to prove that not every Kook is as heartless as he thinks. Somewhere between the arguments, stolen moments, and walls neither of you wants to lower, suspicion turns into friendship, and friendship starts to feel dangerously like something more. You’re a Kook. He’s a Pogue. And falling for each other might just be the one thing neither of your worlds will ever forgive. Because sometimes, the people you’re taught to hate are the ones who end up feeling the most like home.

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KITTY HAWK

Born a Cameron, you were raised in the wealth of Figure Eight, but your heart always belonged to the Cut. Between your friendships with the Pogues and your complicated feelings for your best friend, JJ Maybank, you had everything you wanted. Until your father sent you away to Kitty Hawk, determined to separate you from the life he never approved of. Months later, you return, but you’re no longer the girl everyone remembers. Kitty Hawk has taught you to be quiet, obedient and emotionless. Ward is pleased with the daughter you’ve become, but Rafe, your once-inseparable older brother, knows something isn’t right. And then there’s JJ, who believes you abandoned him. He doesn’t recognise the girl standing in front of him, and you don’t know how to explain what happened. You still love him, but finding your way back to him might mean first finding your way back to yourself.

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LOVING THE ENEMY

You’ve spent your entire life taking care of everyone but yourself. As JJ Maybank’s twin sister, you’ve learned that surviving means making sacrifices, keeping secrets, and pretending you’re okay even when you’re anything but. So when a job at Tannyhill offers the money you desperately need, you take it, knowing your brother would never approve.  You expect Ward Cameron’s house to be difficult. You don’t expect Rafe Cameron to become the person who sees through the one thing you’ve always been good at: pretending nothing hurts. He’s angry where you’re quiet, reckless where you’re careful, and everything you’ve been taught to stay away from. But somewhere between late nights, unexpected conversations, and the small kindnesses neither of you knows how to acknowledge, you begin to understand the parts of him everyone else has given up on. The problem is, JJ has spent his whole life protecting you from people who could hurt you, and Rafe Cameron is the last person he’d ever trust with his sister’s heart. But the more you get to know Rafe, the more you realise that things aren’t as simple as your brother wants them to be and that sometimes, the people you’re warned about are the ones you understand the most.

ILLICIT AFFAIRS

You’ve loved JJ Maybank for years. You were friends long before you ever became a couple, and when you were in third grade, you introduced JJ to your twin brother, John B. The three of you grew up together, eventually becoming inseparable. Now, the Chateau is home, the Pogues are family, and your life has always revolved around John B, JJ, Sarah, Pope, Kiara, and Cleo. You couldn’t imagine it any other way and you certainly couldn’t imagine your life without JJ. Until one afternoon, you walk into the Chateau and see JJ kissing Kiara, your best friend. Neither of them notices you, and instead of confronting them, you quietly walk away and keep what you saw to yourself. A week passes, and everyone can tell something has changed. You’re quieter, more distant, and nowhere near yourself. John B notices. Sarah notices. Even Pope, Cleo, and JJ notice. But nobody knows why, and you’re not ready to tell them. Because you don’t know what happened between JJ and Kiara. You don’t know if it was a one-time mistake or if they’ve been hiding something from you for much longer. You don’t know if they’ve done it again. And you’re too afraid to ask. You’re still completely in love with JJ, and the thought of losing him terrifies you more than the betrayal itself. So you keep pretending everything is fine, hoping you can somehow go back to the way things were. But the longer you keep the secret, the harder it becomes to ignore the thought consuming you: maybe you haven’t just discovered that JJ cheated on you. Maybe you’ve already lost the boy you love and you’re only now realizing it.

MEANT TO BE YOURS

Rafe Cameron has never known how to love normally. When he loves someone, he loves them completely, obsessively, possessively, and without limits. And unfortunately for everyone around him, you’re the person he’s chosen to love. For almost two years, you’ve been his girlfriend, his best friend, and the one person Rafe would do almost anything to keep beside him. Everyone sees the darker side of his obsession. The constant calls, the jealousy, the need to know where you are, and the way his entire mood can change when someone gets too close to you. But you also know the Rafe nobody else gets to see, the soft, vulnerable, affectionate version of him that only exists when you’re around. You aren’t trying to escape him, and you’re not secretly waiting for the relationship to end. You love Rafe just as deeply, even if the way he loves you isn’t exactly normal. To Rafe, there has never been a question of whether the two of you will last. You’re his person, and he intends to keep it that way. The problem isn’t that you want to leave. The problem is that Rafe Cameron has never learned where love ends and obsession begins.

FIRE & FLAMES

The Chateau had always been more than a house. It was where the Pogues laughed until they couldn’t breathe, where bad decisions became good memories, and where you and JJ Maybank had built something that felt like home. It wasn’t perfect, but it was yours. Until one night, everything catches fire. With the Pogues trapped inside, chaos takes over as everyone fights to escape. You and Sarah are the last ones out, and when a falling beam comes crashing down, you don’t think twice before pushing Sarah out of its path. She makes it through. You don’t. Trapped behind the flames with no way back to the front door, JJ can only watch helplessly as you disappear into the burning Chateau. He doesn’t know if he’ll ever see you again. And when you finally find another way out, no one hears the window shatter. No one knows you’ve escaped. So while everyone outside believes you’re still inside the fire, you’re lying injured in the grass on the other side of the house, fighting to stay conscious. JJ is convinced he’s lost you. Until he finds you. The Chateau can be rebuilt. The memories can be replaced. But JJ knows there is one thing he could never live without. You.

BOARDING PASS

You’ve been dating Drew Starkey for almost two years, flying between Australia and America to make your long-distance relationship work. To you, he’s not the Hollywood heartthrob everyone else sees, he’s just your boyfriend, the person who steals your hoodies, sends you ridiculous voice notes, and makes every goodbye at the airport a little harder. You’ve kept his identity a secret from your friends, happy to have one part of your life that belongs only to you. But when your best friend becomes completely obsessed with Drew Starkey, keeping your relationship private suddenly gets a whole lot harder. Especially when Drew books a flight to Australia and is about to spend weeks in your house… while your best friend has absolutely no idea she’s talking about your boyfriend.

BAD HABITS

Drew Starkey is Hollywood’s golden boy. With blockbuster movies, red carpets, and millions of people obsessed with his every move, he’s everything the world wants him to be. But behind the fame, all Drew wants is something real. And somehow, he finds that in you. What starts as a friendship quickly becomes late-night phone calls, stolen kisses, and a relationship neither of you ever intended to fall into. Away from the cameras, Drew is yours in all the little ways that matter. He’s your safe place, your favourite person, and the boy who makes you feel loved without even trying. But when the whole world is watching, you’re nothing more than a secret. You tell yourself that loving him privately is better than not having him at all. You convince yourself that you don’t need the labels, the public appearances, or the reassurance that you’re more than just another part of his life kept behind closed doors. Until pretending you’re okay starts hurting more than the truth ever could. Because falling in love with Drew Starkey was never the hard part. It’s learning how to love a man the whole world wants when you’re not even sure he can let the world know you’re his. Sometimes, the hardest bad habit to break is loving someone who doesn’t realise they’re breaking your heart.

BEFORE THE WORLD KNEW HIM

You and Rudy Pankow have known each other since you were kids growing up in Ketchikan, Alaska. Best friends turned first loves, you built your relationship long before either of you knew where life would take you. When Rudy decides to move to Los Angeles to pursue acting, you go with him, standing beside him through the auditions, rejection, financial struggles, and uncertainty. Then Rudy lands the role of JJ Maybank in Outer Banks, and suddenly the whole world knows his name. But fame doesn’t change the one thing that matters most. Through the premieres, red carpets, press tours, and endless attention, Rudy still comes home to the girl who believed in him before anyone else did. Because before he was an actor, before he was JJ Maybank, he was just the boy from Ketchikan who fell in love with his best friend. And no amount of fame could ever change that.

ROOMMATES

Moving to Los Angeles was supposed to be the start of something exciting. Instead, your apartment falls through, and suddenly you’re stranded in a city that doesn’t feel like home yet. Luckily, your best friend, Rudy Pankow, comes to the rescue, offering you his spare room until you get back on your feet. It sounds simple enough. You and Rudy have been inseparable for years, long before Outer Banks turned him into everyone’s favourite heartthrob. You know him better than anyone, and living together should be no different from the countless nights you’ve spent laughing, arguing, and annoying each other over the years. Except now, you’re sharing a bathroom, a kitchen, a couch, and a little too much proximity with a boy you’re starting to see differently. Between stolen hoodies, lingering touches, late-night conversations, and the occasional reminder that half the internet is in love with him, being Rudy’s best friend becomes a lot more complicated than you ever expected. Then jealousy enters the picture, feelings get tangled, and the line between friendship and something more begins to blur. And when you finally decide that moving out is the only way to protect your heart, you realise leaving Rudy might be harder than falling for him in the first place. Because somewhere between becoming roommates and pretending nothing has changed, you may have become the one thing neither of you knows how to live without. Living together was supposed to be temporary. Falling in love with your best friend was never part of the plan.