Keeping 13

Johnny Kavanagh is used to winning. His name thunders across the pitch, a place on the national team lies ahead, and it seems as if nothing can knock him off course. But one injury destroys everything in an instant: along with his beloved number thirteen, he loses something far more important — his confidence in his own future.
Then, in the middle of that emptiness, she appears — a girl with eyes the color of night, who never reveals more about herself than she has to. Shannon Lynch learned to stay silent long before she learned to trust: her world is filled with fears no fairy tale ever speaks of, only the kind people survive in real life. Johnny is the only one capable of breaking through the walls Shannon has built around herself, because he is the one she has given what she never gave anyone before — her heart. But secrets have a way of rising to the surface at the worst possible moment, and the question is no longer whether they will love each other more deeply, but whether that love will survive everything that lies ahead.

This is the continuation of the story that began in Binding 13, and the second installment does more than sustain the tension — it deepens it, revealing more of Shannon’s family and testing the relationship between the two protagonists at the highest level of trust.

Warning: This novel addresses themes of domestic abuse and trauma and is therefore recommended for adult readers.