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Somehow, Still You
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The first time Ellie Carter met Kieran Hayes, festival lights lit up the night sky and the world felt wide open. The second time, he was bleeding in her emergency department. Older, softer, still impossible to forget. Ellie thought she made the right choice when she walked away. She built a life that looked perfect on paper: a steady partner, a sweet daughter, a picture-perfect home. But behind closed doors, perfection felt like a cage. Love became control. Smiles became silence. And Ellie became someone she barely recognised. She was never supposed to see Kieran again. But life has a way of circling back when you least expect it, and when you need it the most. Drawn together by fate, timing, and unfinished history, Ellie and Kieran find themselves facing not just what was left unsaid between them, but everything they’ve both become in the years apart. Now, caught between the girl she was, the woman she’s become, and the future she wants to build, Ellie stands at a crossroads: stay trapped in a life that checks all the boxes, or take a chance on a love that sees her. Fully. Freely. Scars and all.
Still It’s You
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Some things are worth rebuilding. Others are worth burning down. Ellie is finally free from the man who dragged her down. But freedom isn’t the end, it’s a harder kind of beginning. Legal battles, mounting debt, and the looming threat of losing her home leave her drowning in red tape and silence. She’s convinced she has to face it alone, terrified that letting someone in will look like failure. But real strength isn’t in holding it all together, it’s knowing when to let someone help carry the weight. Kieran has been patient. Steady. All-in. He stood by Ellie through the wreckage without asking for more than she could give. But now the band is on the edge of something big, and the pressure is brutal. Every lyric, every move, every relationship is under scrutiny. The spotlight burns brighter, the label wants more, and the cracks are beginning to show. With Ellie back home and Kieran chasing the dream, the distance between them grows. And not just in miles. When new evidence of David’s financial betrayal surfaces, Ellie must decide what she’s really fighting for: the house that holds her past, the history she’s finally stopped apologising for, or the kind of love that stays, even when everything else falls apart.
Reading order: Somehow, Still You → Still It’s You