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On a cold night at the edge of a bridge, two lives collide—one desperate to disappear, the other quietly determined to help. Carla’s world is unraveling, and Lisa, a police officer with her own scars, becomes the unexpected thread holding it together.
After a brief, intense connection, Carla vanishes without a word.
Months later, on a quiet street in Weatherfield, Carla tries to rebuild her life, hiding the truth from those around her. But everything shifts when Lisa moves in just a few doors down.
As both women grapple with past wounds and hidden truths, they discover that the person who saved you once might just be the one you’re meant to hold on to.
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03 Mar 2026
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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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20 Feb 2026
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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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13 Feb 2026
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When Detective Sergeant Lisa Swain packs up her life and her eight-year-old daughter, Betsy, to start over in Weatherfield, she's hoping for quiet mornings and absolutely no surprises. Betsy throws a wrench in all of their carefully laid out plans the moment she befriends Carla Connor. A sharp-tongued, magnetic woman who paints her fence red and never quite does anything by the book.
What begins as a wary friendship soon turns into something Lisa never planned on. Through long summers, biting winters, and all the messy weather in between, Lisa and Carla learn that love, like the forecast, rarely goes to plan. A story about second chances, unexpected connections, and the stubborn, beautiful ways people find each other, rain or shine.
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12 Feb 2026
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In 1996, Lisa Swain is 19 and living a comfortable, middle class life with her parents and sister in a leafy Manchester suburb. Comfortable apart from the fact she’s struggling to come to terms with her sexuality.
Having recently spent the night with her best friend - she’s left humiliated and considering dropping out of university.
Carla Donovan is 21, and living far less comfortably, alone, in a freezing cold flat on an estate rougher than most prisons. Her brother Rob is constantly in trouble with the law, and she has to suffer the consequences of his actions. Her life has made her tough, and unforgiving, and she doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Without the support of her best friend Michelle - life would feel very bleak indeed.
So what could happen when these two polar opposite, but equally troubled young women cross paths by chance on a night out?
As time moves on and when fate continues to bring them together, during various stages of their lives - are they able to navigate so many changes and challenges? And accept that the universe keeps bringing them back to each other, and perhaps they are powerless to stop it?
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12 Feb 2026