She's fighting for the one shot she's always been told she doesn't deserve. He's the one rule he can't afford to break. Mia Torres clawed her way from a walk-on tryout to the best striker on her team. No academy, no scout, no shortcut just two years of proving, one match at a time, that she belongs. This season is everything: a national call-up is finally within reach, if she can hold her spot and keep her head down. Then Ironbridge FC hires Daniel Reyes. A former pro with a reputation for never once bending a rule, and the very first thing he does as head coach is bench her in her own season opener. What starts as a collision turns into something far more dangerous than either of them wants. Respect, forged in brutal training sessions and long nights breaking down game film. Then something underneath it neither of them can name out loud, because naming it means admitting the risk: coaches don't fall for players. Not if he wants to keep his career. Not if she wants to keep hers. But proximity has a way of wearing down every line they've drawn. And somewhere on the other side of a locked phone screen, somebody is already watching, waiting for the moment they slip.

The world ended on a Tuesday. Then the Registry arrived and handed out superpowers. Fire. Gravity. Healing. Weapons that appear from thin air. Mara Vale got the worst one, she can see exactly how people will die. Rank F. Useless. Worthless. But when Mara saves a stranger from a death only she can see, something terrifying happens. Another name vanishes from the Registry. Then the person is gone from the world, and from everyone's memory but hers. Every life she saves costs a life she'll never get back. When her little brother becomes the next name on the list, Mara has to find out why the system is erasing people, and who is deciding who deserves to exist. The apocalypse didn't choose her by accident. It chose the one girl who could see its secret. And she's about to break it.

Raised in quiet poverty by the only woman who had ever claimed her as family, Liora Kane never expected the past to come knocking on a cold morning with expensive coats and carefully measured regret. When her long-lost parents appeared and offered to save her dying grandmother in exchange for one impossible condition, she had no real choice left. She would take her twin sister’s place in an arranged marriage and become the bride the powerful Ashford family demanded. What she did not know was that the contract bound her not to one man but to three: Cassian, whose cold authority left no room for refusal; Rhys, whose charm carried a dangerous edge; and Dorian, whose silence watched more closely than words ever could. They were meant to accept a replacement and nothing more, yet something in the quiet strength of the girl who had never been wanted began to shift the ground beneath them. As affection grew where indifference once lived, Liora discovered that walking away might no longer be possible, for the brothers who had never planned to keep her now refused to let her go.