Do I need to read the previous book in the series before starting this one?

This book is a direct continuation of the story started in the first installment, and reading them in order is essential to understand the character arcs and the progression of the central relationship.

Does this book end on a cliffhanger?

While the immediate narrative arc for the main couple reaches a satisfying resolution, the book maintains unresolved tensions and subplots that carry over into the subsequent books in the series.

How does this book fit into the wider series structure?

It serves as the second entry in an interconnected series that follows a group of friends at the same school, with later books shifting focus to other characters within that same social circle.

Keeping 13

Reader reviews of Keeping 13

Emma · 2026-11-05T11:16:19.000000Z

I feel both whole and empty at the same time, like there’s a weight in my chest 😭😭 SHANNON and JOHNNY no matter how much i loved the other characters you’ll always be my number one 😭❤️🩹

Contemporary Romance New Adult Romance

Pages: 667
Published: 2018
Language: English

Synopsis

Johnny Kavanagh is the golden boy of Tommen College, a rugby prodigy with the weight of everyone's expectations on his shoulders. Shannon Lynch is the quiet, anxious new girl carrying the scars of a home life defined by poverty, abuse, and fear. In the first book of their story they found each other; in Keeping 13, they fight to hold on.

As Johnny faces an injury that threatens the future the whole town has planned for him, Shannon must survive the ongoing dangers of her family and confront a past she has kept hidden. The secrets between and around them threaten the fragile safety they have built together, and both must decide how much they are willing to risk to keep it.

Keeping 13 is the second novel in Chloe Walsh's hugely popular Boys of Tommen series, an emotional, slow-burn Irish sports romance about first love, trauma, and the fierce, protective devotion of two teenagers refusing to let go of each other.

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