Description
Mallory Greenleaf gave up chess after her father died, and she’s been supporting her family and her mother’s chronic illness ever since. She only sits down at a casual tournament because a friend talks her into it — and ends up beating Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champion. A paid job at a New York chess club follows, taken purely for the money, and Mallory tells herself the game still doesn’t matter to her. Ali Hazelwood, known for The Love Hypothesis, builds a rivals-to-lovers romance out of what happens when it turns out it does.
