I read this book around 2019. I can’t remember any names, but the (then high school aged) mc (I think it was a basic name) had started a relationship with her best friend’s (Diana?) brother (Lucas?) and they were neighbours, and they would go out in this field at night to look at the stars. When their relationship was still quite new, mc’s stepbrother (Conrad/Will?) raped her and I think that the love interest thought she cheated on him or something and he left and became a professional sports person (?). Mc continued to be raped and abused by her stepbrother, who at some point got a girlfriend, and the parents never knew. She withdrew from social things and avoided her best friend. Eventually (quite a few years after), the love interest returned. The details get a little hazy but the best friend still tries to approach the mc and eventually the mc starts to go out again. She’s still being raped and abused by her stepbrother and she learned early on to just stop fighting and she looks up at the ceiling and she sees the stars like she had in the field with the love interest. Near the end, the stepbrother gets caught by his girlfriend/fiancée? raping her but he manipulates it so that t looks like the mc was coming on to him. At some point, she leaves the house and stays at the love interest’s house but returns to retrieve some things from her room. She’s attacked and nearly killed by the stepbrother but the love interest manages to save her and it’s all a happily ever after I guess? I think the book was written in the present with flashbacks but I could be wrong.
An all new emotionally charged second chance romance.  What happens when you fall for the boy next door?  Bea Norwood had the market on normal. Drama free life? Check. A single-mother who doubled as her confidant and partner in crime? Check. A neighbor and best friend she trusted more than anyone? Check. But that was until the day her mother remarried. The day that changed An all new emotionally charged second chance romance.  What happens when you fall for the boy next door?  Bea Norwood had the market on normal. Drama free life? Check. A single-mother who doubled as her confidant and partner in crime? Check. A neighbor and best friend she trusted more than anyone? Check. But that was until the day her mother remarried. The day that changed everything.When her best friend's cousin, Liam Falcon, is sent to live with his aunt and uncle to clean up his act, Bea finds herself falling for the boy next door. With their hearts so infinitely entwined, Bea turns to Liam as her only escape from her new step-brother's daily torment at home. Bea thought their love could conquer anything. But she was wrong. Love was for fools, and she was the biggest fool of them all. When Liam left Lakeport, he took her heart with him, shattering the organ to pieces.  Six years later, Liam takes a trip back to Lakeport to visit his family, and to see HER. His first love.The girl who holds his heart.The same girl who shattered it six years ago without looking back. Liam is hell-bent on seeing Bea again after six years, but what he finds tears his heart in half. Bea Norwood is a shell of the girl he fell in love with. Underneath the baggy clothes, and pale skin, he knows she's still in there somewhere, he just needs to find her. Liam will stop at nothing to win his girl back, but sometimes, ignorance is bliss, and Liam isn't prepared for Bea's truth.   *Some aspects of this story may be sensitive for readers.*    ...more