Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament against Nolan Sawyer, the current world champion. In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life's moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart.

Ali Hazelwood is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis, as well as a writer of peer-reviewed articles about brain science, in which no one makes out and the ever after is not always happy. Originally from Italy, she lived in Germany and Japan before moving to the US to pursue a PhD in neuroscience. When Ali is not at work, she can be found running, eating cake pops, or watching sci-fi movies with her three feline overlords (and her slightly-less-feline husband).