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Carla Connor doesn’t do careful. Lisa Swain doesn’t do reckless.
Somewhere between a two-year-old who chooses her people fiercely, a grief that never quite loosens its grip, and a woman who feels like home far too quickly, boundaries blur and hearts hesitate.
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Lisa Swain is the architect of order: Captain of Manchester City, a minimalist perfectionist, and the self-proclaimed "Ice Queen" of the league. She views football as a science to be mastered.
Carla Connor is the definition of chaos: Captain of Manchester United, a local hero fueled by adrenaline, instinct, and the roar of the crowd. She views football as a war to be won.
For ten years, they have been total opposites. For five years, they have been bitter rivals. But this season, the tackles are hitting harder, the stares in the tunnel are lingering longer, and the hatred is starting to feel dangerously like obsession.
When the rivalry spills over the touchline, Lisa discovers that the only thing more terrifying than losing control is giving it to the one person she’s sworn to destroy.
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When Carla and Lisa are paired in a pottery class, sparks fly—mostly of irritation.
Carla is sharp, focused, and impossible to impress.
Lisa is warm, witty, and haunted by loss.Carla, a perfectionist interior designer, and Lisa, a
high school teacher who left the police after losing her wife,
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Carla and Lisa are persuaded to participate in reality TV show, Wife Swap by their partners, Peter and Becky. When they get matched together, their worlds are transformed.
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Carla and Lisa were always meant to find each other.
But what if they gave into their desires long before “Don’t Get Dressed”?
What if they became friends (enemies?) with benefits.
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Lisa and Carla’s stable, loving life is thrown into turmoil when Lisa’s first wife, Becky—long presumed dead—returns, wanting her old life back. As buried secrets resurface and loyalties are tested, the Swain-Connors family must navigate emotional upheaval and uncertain futures. Can their bond survive the past, or will Becky’s return tear them apart?
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Lisa manages to find the strength to end her marriage to Becky, leaving her and her young daughter, Betsy, to rebuild their life. Carla, Lisa’s best friend acts as an unwavering support system to them both.
As laughter returns to Lisa’s home, Betsy finds a hero in Carla, and Lisa begins to see what she’s been missing: kindness, patience, and a love that has never once asked for anything in return.
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After Lisa is assaulted, Carla helps her through despite how triggering it is for her.
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Our observable universe may be just one of many universes that exist simultaneously. This is a story about a slightly different Carla and a slightly different Lisa who met and fell in love in one of those other universes.
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- Part 1 of Through Shadow and Flame
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Carla Connor and Lisa Swain were inseparable ever since they met at freshers week. They were always together. Well that was until Lisa met Becky during her first year in the force and their friendship eventually came to an end.
Betsy Swain has just moved schools after being kicked out of her last one and quickly befriends Darcy Connor.
How will Carla and Lisa react now they’ve been pulled back into each other’s lives. Is there any bad blood between them?
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Set after Carla’s ABH charge.
Carla’s life takes a dramatic turn after one moment of recklessness leads to an ABH charge, stemming from a hit-and-run incident.
After she is confronted by the furious father of the boy she injured, this triggers a spiral of anxiety and torment, blurring the lines between her past actions and her present reality.
To Carla’s surprise, she finds solace in an unexpected place—or rather, person. However, as nights pass, close proximity stirs new feelings between the two friends, blurring the lines between friendship and love.
What happens when love is found in the most unexpected places?
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- Part 1 of Out at Sea
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Lisa's mental health is spiralling and she breaks up with Carla, refusing to let her be dragged down with her. Heartbroken and warring, will they be able to find their way back to each other?
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DS Swain knows about the hit and run. What will she do with that information and how will it affect her budding friendship with Carla?
Betsy has leapt to conclusions which have the potential to destroy Lisa and Carla’s growing closeness before it's even had chance to develop into anything solid. Will she be able to handle the consequences of her actions this time? Or has she gone too far to redeem herself?
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During the spring of 2024, the residents of Weatherfield were shaken by the disappearance, and apparent murder, of Lauren Bolton, for which Roy Cropper was wrongly imprisoned.
But what impact did that have on DS Lisa Swain? How could she cope with making such a mistake? A shocking turn of events leads her into an unlikely friendship with Carla Connor. And could that friendship turn into something more?
(I've edited the blurb coz I didn't like it!)
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Nearly eight months after getting engaged, Lisa and Carla are navigating work and family life successfully. However, news of Lisa’s sister Kirsty and her prison sentence brings change and uncertainty into their lives. Can the family survive this? Will the changes push the couple to their limits? Or will they overcome it together and come out stronger than ever?
Sequel to “Maybe This Is What We Needed.”
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- Part 2 of The Maybe Series
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Lisa receives some news about an estranged family member that could overwhelm her completely. How will Lisa cope? Will she finally let down those walls and let people in to help her through it?
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- Part 1 of The Maybe Series
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“Ever felt like you're living under a microscope, trapped in a petri dish, bound to keep being slapped in the face by your past?” Carla Connor, businesswoman, factory owner, independent woman needed space. Space from the scrutiny that came with living your life out loud on Coronation Street.
Detective Sergeant Lisa Swain needed help. Help to make ends meet and not further break her daughter's heart by having to insist on a house move away from the only home she had ever known, the one which contained all the memories of her late mum, Becky. The same Becky who was the reason Lisa was up to her eyeballs in debt, having forged Lisa's signature and borrowed significant amounts of money against the house before her death. In desperation, Lisa advertises the spare room to rent out, a last ditch attempt to avoid what seemed inevitable.
When Carla places a call to enquire about the room, could it mark the beginning of something both of them never knew they needed?
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Carla's been trying to keep her distance from Detective Sergeant Lisa Swain, the woman she has fallen in love with but can't be with. What happens when the factory owner and Detective find themselves at a crime scene and are finally forced to talk to one another and how do they make it out of a sticky situation?
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Separated by choice but reunited by circumstance, the residents of Number Six travel to Austria just days before Christmas. Snowed in together in a remote mountain hut, they are left with nothing but time, memory—and the truth they have been trying to avoid.