Things We Never Got Over (2022)
Things We Hide from the Light (2023)
Things We Left Behind (2023)
⚡ Pace: fast · 🎭 Emotions: warm, emotional · 🚪 Entry threshold: low · ⭐ Why read: engaging banter, cozy atmosphere
Small towns often look safe from a distance, but the first book of Lucy Score’s Knockemout trilogy quickly asks something less comfortable: what do you do when the chaos you tried to outrun greets you at the city limits? The story begins with Naomi, whose attempt to help her unpredictable twin sister detonates into trouble the moment she reaches Knockemout. The town feels warm and nosy at first, yet every street corner nudges her toward choices she wasn’t planning to make. And then there’s Knox – the kind of man who avoids complications until one walks straight into his life and starts rearranging the edges he swore to keep sharp.
As their reluctant connection grows, the emotional tempo of the entire series takes shape: attraction that sparks in spite of itself, vulnerability that sneaks up in quiet conversations, and a stubborn sense of responsibility that neither character wants to admit. Why does a person who guards his solitude so fiercely find himself drawn to someone who invites every kind of trouble? And why does Naomi’s optimism hit so many locked doors before opening unexpected ones? Their clashes reveal how trust forms in uneven steps, often at the exact moment when both would rather retreat.
Across all three books, the tone remains rooted in that balance of tenderness and chaos. The series expands to friendships, small-town loyalties, hidden wounds, and the kind of second chances people don’t ask for out loud. Yet the first volume plants the heartbeat: messy attraction, the push-and-pull of two people learning where they stand, and a town that seems to know more than it says. And just when it feels like certainty is within reach, a familiar shadow stirs the peace again, hinting at something waiting off the page.
📚 Did you know 📖
The novel became a BookTok sensation and one of the best-selling romcoms of 2022.
It broke into the Amazon Kindle Unlimited top charts and stayed there for a long run.
The protagonists embody the beloved “grumpy x sunshine” trope, a favourite in romance fiction.
This book launched the Knockemout series, which quickly expanded into a full trilogy.
Legend has it: fans created the meme “Knox Morgan – the perfect antihero,” and the author herself liked fan art on TikTok.