SWOONWORTHY SPICE & EVERYTHING NICE: FOUR YOUNG ADULT ROM-COMS

You won’t want to miss this sizzling panel with four young adult romance writers on juggling the entanglements in love and life. In The Secret Summer Promise by KEAH BROWN, Andrea spent last summer recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy, and is determined to make up for lost time with the Best Summer Ever List – which includes falling out of love with her best friend. In ALI HAZELWOOD’s Check & Mate, rook-ie Mallory inadvertently beats the current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess, and even as her love of the sport rekindles, she realizes that the games aren’t only on the board, and the competition can be fierce (-ly attractive. And intelligent … and infuriating …). In Love Radio by EBONY LADELLE, when Prince, a romantic DJ who dishes out advice to the brokenhearted while juggling heavy responsibilities at home, meets Dani, an ambitious writer focused on getting into her dream college, he only gets three dates to convince her that he’s worth falling for. In LAURA TAYLOR NAMEY’s A British Girl’s Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak, Flora escapes from her family’s tea-shop business – and longtime friend Gordon Wallace – in England to Miami, which lands her in the flashbulb world of teen influencer Baz Marín, a Miami Cuban who shares her love of photography. Moderated by SAFON FLOYD, executive editor at Callisto Publishing, an imprint of Sourcebooks, and host of the monthly Books & BS book club.

Buy The Secret Summer Promise. – Brown

Buy Check & Mate. – Hazelwood

Buy Love Radio. – LaDelle

Buy A British Girl’s Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak. – Namey