After Everything, You: The Calloway Effect — Book One

He was the cricketer everyone watched. She was the woman who refused to be impressed. Neither expected the other to change everything.

Candice Everhart has spent months helping organise a youth sports event when Nathan Calloway, a rising cricket star, arrives three hours late. Candice is furious. Nathan is defensive. Their first meeting is a spectacular clash of stubbornness, sharp remarks, and undeniable chemistry—and a moment that soon captures the public’s attention.

Nathan is used to pressure on the cricket field, but his life off it is far more complicated. Family tensions, old wounds, and secrets he has never fully faced follow him into every room. Candice, meanwhile, has her own ambitions and boundaries. She is not interested in being dazzled by fame, and she refuses to let attraction excuse behaviour that hurts the people around her.

As their arguments turn into teasing, shared moments, and a growing connection, both begin to discover the people behind their first impressions. But falling in love does not make their problems disappear. Career demands, family complications, painful choices, and the consequences of past mistakes test whether affection can survive when trust is shaken.

Their relationship will have to endure distance, heartbreak, difficult truths, and the hard work of rebuilding what has been damaged. Because wanting someone is not the same as knowing how to love them—and choosing one another means learning to take responsibility, communicate honestly, and grow beyond the people they used to be.

After Everything, You is a long, immersive contemporary sports romance blending cricket, romantic tension, witty banter, family drama, emotional setbacks, and second chances. With Candice and Nathan at its centre, Adriana Cullen explores the difference between winning someone over and building a life together.

For readers who love character-driven romance, complicated families, professional athletes, sharp chemistry, emotional growth, and relationships that must survive more than one difficult chapter, this is the first book in The Calloway Effect.

Some stories are about finding the person you love. This one is about learning how to choose them—after everything.