Check & Mate: the instant Sunday Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards winner for 2023 - an enemies-to-lovers romance that will have you hooked! by Ali Hazelwood Forbidden Flames Press Edie Van Der Zee's stomach

Edie Van Der Zee's stomach flips and her world tilts on its axis

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A small town of meddling friends

''A deliciously sexy story with a wallop of emotions that sneaks up on you'' Vi Keeland

Check & Mate: the instant Sunday Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards winner for 2023 - an enemies-to-lovers romance that will have you hooked! by Ali Hazelwood Forbidden Flames Press Edie Van Der Zee's stomachIn this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life's moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly