Check & Mate

Check & MateIn this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, lifes 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, Mallorys focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees

timid Beth

Max Brooks

her first since Fates and Furies

Thus begins Apollo’s quest to find a wife and child who are nothing like he’d imagined

and in the long nights

but quietly determined Fanny Price

” —The New York Times Book Review * “Compulsively readable

Kitty may be neither accomplished nor especially genteel—but she is utterly single-minded

Every time he writes an article

"—The New York Times

not the usual suspects

each with their own motive