30 First Times: a Halegrove College Bl : First in the Series Halegrove College Series Book

One boy can’t remember love. The other cannot forget. At Halegrove, an elite river school thick with gossip and ghost stories, Aran Yeo is already a legend: the “Halegrove Heartbreaker,” the boy on the bridge who forgets every kiss. He is the rumour everyone knows but no one really understands. When his ex–best friend Theo Lin returns, the house immediately ships them as enemies-to-lovers with bonus trauma, but what Aran actually wants is simple and terrifying: to stop being a cautionary tale and decide for himself what his first times mean.As fog rolls in off the river and the school keeps promising that “lessons have been learned,” Aran and Theo start a secret project to write their own version of events, and each other, into the record. With a queer house full of sharp-tongued spectators, an Omega den that runs on hot chocolate and rumours, and a head boy quietly rewriting the files in the archives, their slow-burn connection becomes something tense, tender and dangerous: amnesia-based soulmates, institutional cover-ups, and a YA BL romance about two boys choosing to be more than the story that nearly drowned them.