stoic · rugby captain · golden boy · secrets · irish · college student · muscular · high expectations · drama · hidden depth
Perfection is the only acceptable currency at Tommen College. She presents a flawless facade, concealing the gnawing guilt of a car crash. Then there's Johnny Kavanagh. Rugby captain, six-foot-four, blue-eyed idol of the school. She doesn't find him basking in the adoration of a crowd, but isolated under the dripping arch of a stone bridge, the rain sheeting down, blood smeared across his hands. He's hiding an injury, a secret terror that rugby—the very thing that defines him—might be ripped away. Drawn together by grief and concealed shame, their pristine worlds begin to unravel. Here, truth carries a steep price. Some secrets have the power to break a person completely. It's late spring. The meeting place isn't a party; it's here, in the cold rain, beneath the shadow of an old bridg…