Hannah Grace

The new novel from the bestselling author of Icebreaker.... When Russ and Aurora cross paths at a university party, a drinking game ends with them spending the night together. The next day, Aurora slips away before Russ learns her full name. This anonymity ends when they both turn up to their first day of work as camp counsellors. A job they had both chosen to escape Maple Hills for the summer. Given their history, there’s still an obvious tension between the two but the camp has a strict “no staff fraternizing” rule. Russ doesn’t want to risk heading home early but Aurora has never been one for rules. As things heat up, they'll have to resist or risk starting something they just can’t stop. 18+ content

Wildfire

Fiona

You are brave. We live in a society that tells us our parents are the greatest thing we will ever have and will ever lose, and you just-I don't even know. You're putting yourself first anyway. That's brave.

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“It’s no secret that I love books. I love stories about people I don’t know, and places I haven’t been to. I’ve lived a thousand lives between a thousand pages, but no story, no life, no page has ever made me as happy as you do, Russ Callaghan.”

“You are the most capable woman I have ever met in my life. There’s nothing you could suggest that I wouldn’t support. I will be there to hold your hand through all of it, Ror, but you don’t need me to. You’ve never needed me to be incredible. You. Just. Are. And I love you more than I can put into words.”

“the best form of apology is changed behavior.”

It’s incredible how shame fills the cracks other people create.

It feels like she’s taking half of me with her as I finally lift my head to watch as she walks out, and I finally get the answer to the question that’s been plaguing me all summer.

It’s harder to watch her walk away than it is to wake up and find she’s not there.

“She has a big heart, but it’s bruised. When you spend a long time self-destructing, sometimes your pieces don’t fit back together quite right. She’s gonna need time and patience.”

 is a word. It doesn’t mean anything unless there is action and intention behind it.”

Sharing things you’ve kept so close to you is exhausting.

People have made us feel like we’re less than we are, and those opinions are buried deep in us both, like weeds. Every drop of self-doubt waters the soil, and once they start to grow it feels impossible to stop. But it isn’t impossible, it just takes someone to rip them out by the root, over and over if needed.

We’re so different, and yet so similar, and part of me is starting to believe that’s the perfect mix.

I don’t understand the rush everyone mentions when they talk about sneaking around. I don’t feel that at all; all I feel is guilt. It’s just not quite enough guilt to make me stop.

“If I wanted to watch two people fight over something pointless, I’d spend time with my parents.”

it helped me work out that I have feelings, and those feelings are floating around my stomach making me feel weird.

“Just malfunctioning over a man, got it.”

When has telling someone not to stress ever helped them not stress?

“I like being helpful, and neatening things is an easy way to help people.”

But the anxiety from trying to control a conversation in that way is exhausting, and I’m tired of forcing my guard to stay up with her.

“I learned a long time ago that if I didn’t put myself first, nobody else was going to. Forgiving people who repeatedly let you down is like sticking your hand in a fire over and over and expecting it to not keep burning you.”

God, it’s exhausting trying to think about what you do before you do it.

“I’m scared to have the things I want in case I fuck them up, because you’ve made me believe I’m a fuckup—and I hate you for that. I hate you for being everywhere and nowhere all at once.”

I have so much to say. Every bad thought I’ve ever had about myself. Every risk I didn’t take because I was scared. Every conversation I cut short, too anxious for people to see the real me. Every relationship I didn’t chase because I didn’t want to mess up and let someone down.

I want to run away from this, not have whatever conversation I’m about to have, avoid the people I work so hard not to speak to—but I don’t.

“I will spiral later, alone, like a regular person. Or if I’m feeling really adventurous, I’ll bottle it up and bury it deep down, letting it erupt at a much later, more inconvenient time.”

Unnecessary worry is a mentally exhausting process, and by definition, there’s no logic to it.

The new novel from the bestselling author of Icebreaker.... When Russ and Aurora cross paths at a university party, a drinking game ends with them spending the night together. The next day, Aurora slips away before Russ learns her full name. This anonymity ends when they both turn up to their first day of work as camp counsellors. A job they had both chosen to escape Maple Hills for the summer. Given their history, there's still an obvious tension between the two but the camp has a strict "no staff fraternizing" rule. Russ doesn't want to risk heading home early but Aurora has never been one for rules. As things heat up, they'll have to resist or risk starting something they just can't stop. 18+ content

This book is cute, spicy and the mental health representation is S-tier!

What Russ and Aurora have is ultimate goals and their story doesn’t have a third-act break up or a miscommunication trope! Love that!

Kyra

Hannah Grace has done it again!

This book is cute, spicy and the mental health representation is S-tier!

What Russ and Aurora have is ultimate goals and their story doesn’t have a third-act break up or a miscommunication trope! Love that!

this was simply adorable. i felt so good reading it. coming from the previous book 

 (which was such a big deal all around but i honestly wasn’t that impressed) i have to say that i’m surprised in a very good way by how much i liked it. i guess i had low expectations but it definitely went above and beyond.

most of all i enjoyed the writing. it was finally genuine and well-written. it was funny in a wholesome way. their internal monologues were often hilarious.

again, all the characters were well-written. their friend-group dynamic is simply 

 but it’s just so cool to see such funny and cool lines from all of them. Xander especially, Emilia and of course the rest of the hockey players. i never found excessive or boring the parts were i had to read about the side characters. it just made me laugh!

moving on, i LOVED Russ. he’s so charming and cute and adorable. he’s just such a perfect little creature and i was super intrigued by him even from the previous book. all lines of his were written in a way that were portraying him perfectly and i felt a real connection with him. Also, Aurora, if she were written in a different way, and by having these character traits, would be super annoying to me, but still, the author managed to make me like her and i couldn’t find her annoying at all. because she was just so funny and caring and her chaotic self wasn’t unrealistic. i liked their chemistry and their character development as well as the fact that we didn’t get to see them break their hearts (and ours alongside them).

Nothing seemed forced or unrealistic in this book, which was my main issue with the previous book. 

i also liked the setting of camp and this healthy version of forbidden.

it was just a lovely and entertaining book and i highly recommend it!

this was simply adorable. i felt so good reading it. coming from the previous book Icebreaker (which was such a big deal all around but i honestly wasn’t that impressed) i have to say that i’m surprised in a very good way by how much i liked it. i guess i had low expectations but it definitely went above and beyond.

most of all i enjoyed the writing. it was finally genuine and well-written. it was funny in a wholesome way. their internal monologues were often hilarious.

again, all the characters were well-written. their friend-group dynamic is simply friendship goals but it’s just so cool to see such funny and cool lines from all of them. Xander especially, Emilia and of course the rest of the hockey players. i never found excessive or boring the parts were i had to read about the side characters. it just made me laugh!

moving on, i LOVED Russ. he’s so charming and cute and adorable. he’s just such a perfect little creature and i was super intrigued by him even from the previous book. all lines of his were written in a way that were portraying him perfectly and i felt a real connection with him. Also, Aurora, if she were written in a different way, and by having these character traits, would be super annoying to me, but still, the author managed to make me like her and i couldn’t find her annoying at all. because she was just so funny and caring and her chaotic self wasn’t unrealistic. i liked their chemistry and their character development as well as the fact that we didn’t get to see them break their hearts (and ours alongside them).

Nothing seemed forced or unrealistic in this book, which was my main issue with the previous book. 

i also liked the setting of camp and this healthy version of forbidden.

it was just a lovely and entertaining book and i highly recommend it!

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From the author of TikTok sensation Icebreaker comes a deliciously swoonworthy romance following two summer camp counsellors who reconnect after a sizzling one-night stand. When Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a college party, a drinking game results in a passionate one-night stand. Never one to overstay her welcome (or expect much from a man), Aurora slips away before Russ even has the chance to ask her full name. Imagine their surprise when they bump into each other on their first day as summer camp counsellors, hoping to escape their complicated home lives for the summer break. Russ hopes to avoid dealing with his father's gambling addiction while Aurora, tired of craving attention from everyone around her, wants to go back to the last place she truly felt at home. As the summer unfolds, the tension between them intensifies. Russ doesn't want to risk breaking the camp's strict 'no staff fraternising' rule but, unfortunately for him, Aurora has never been very good at caring about rules. Will the two learn to peacefully co-exist? Or did their one night together start a fire they can't put out?

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