Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts
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- Expected Jul 16, 2024
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- $10.99
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- Pre-Order
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Publisher Description
A swoony contemporary romance from Adam Sass following a boy who is cursed to doom any romantic relationship—and the summer that changes everything.
Grant Rossi is never getting a happily-ever-after.
Ever since he was a kid and made a wish on his family’s iconic Wishing Rose, his romantic relationships have been cursed to end. Following his most recent (and extremely public) dumping, Grant is languishing in a hot Chicago summer, abandoning his beloved design projects to sink back into depression. But when his family suggests spending the summer helping his aunt and uncle refurbish their beautiful but rundown B&B and vineyard—the home of the Wishing Rose that changed everything for him—Grant decides to accept. Maybe he can finally find a way to recover his creative spark...and break his curse.
But things at the vineyard are not what Grant expects. The place is in almost total disrepair, and—even worse—the person his relatives hired to help is his former childhood crush, Ben—the first boy who broke his heart.
As their chemistry sparks and the summer heats up, the wedge between them can’t be ignored. But while they race to restore the B&B in time for the beloved local rose festival, grumpy but lovable Ben starts to break through Grant’s carefully crafted defenses. Can Grant find a way to overcome his curse and open his heart, even when it’s broken?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Middle school friends reunite to save a moldering B&B in this energetic second-chance romance from Sass (Your Lonely Nights Are Over). Grant Rossi, 18, has always blamed his poor dating record on a mangled wish he made five years before on the wishing rose, the centerpiece of his Italian American family's vineyard and B&B. Fresh off a breakup with his influencer boyfriend, Grant impulsively speeds from Chicago to the exurb Valle upon his aunt Ro's request to help refurbish the vineyard from his youth, which is in disrepair; the end-of-summer Rose Festival is their only chance to raise enough money to forestall selling the establishment. He's thrown for a loop, however, when the summer gardener turns out to be Scottish American Ben McKittrick, 13-year-old Grant's true love who broke up his first relationship by kissing Grant's then-boyfriend. The teens agree to be civil, especially after Grant's carefully planned social media post drums up fresh business. But lingering unsupportive family dynamics, long-held hurt feelings, and the impending return of Ben to Scotland cast a long shadow in this clamorous romance, which Sass renders via high emotion and some lightly fantastical flourishes. Characters cue as white. Ages 14–up.
