He\'s a boy made of fire, and he\'s about to meet his match.
And their hearts will never be the same..
But even if it takes years, what\'s between them is bound to combust.
Joey desperately fights to keep Aoife out.
Aoife wants to let Joey in.
But their friendship is tangled and complex, full of unwinding secrets and feelings simmering beneath the surface.
That is, until her first day of secondary school, when she collides with a hotheaded boy who sparks a burning curiosity inside of her that only grows stronger by the day.
Bubbly, strong, and self-assured, she\'s never feared being led astray, even by her own heart.
Aoife Molloy has always moved forward, not backward.
And soon, something far more complicated.
His classmate.
His boss\'s firecracker daughter.
The only light in his dark seas is Aoife.
Soon, he finds himself teetering precariously close to a life of addiction that threatens to swallow him whole.
When his older brother skips town, twelve-year-old Joey finds himself thrown into the role of protector to his mother and younger siblings, plagued by self-loathing and furious with the world.
The second son in a broken marriage, Joey Lynch has spent a lifetime picking up the pieces of an unraveling family.
He\'s a boy made of fire, and he\'s about to meet his match
