Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed Hardcover – January 4, 2022 by Elise Bryant, Elizabeth Eulberg, Leah Johnson

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Author: Bryant Elise

Package Dimensions: 33x240x520

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 04-01-2022

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Love is in the air in Serendipity, a collection of stories inspired by romantic tropes and edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer.The secret admirer.The fake relationship.The matchmaker.From stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, love that’s been there all along, 10 of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA have taken on some of your favorite romantic tropes, embracing them and turning them on their heads. Readers will fall for this collection of stories that celebrate love at its most humorous, inclusive, heart-expanding, and serendipitous.Contributors include Elise Bryant, Elizabeth Eulberg, Leah Johnson, Anna-Marie McLemore, Marissa Meyer, Sandhya Menon, Julie Murphy, Caleb Roehrig, Sarah Winifred Searle, and Abigail Hing Wen.
Review
“Here, best-selling YA authors take common rom-com tropes (fake dating, matchmaking, feelings for a best friend, enemies to lovers) and offer their twists on each one. …The collection is inclusive and diverse, with four LGBTQ+ romances as well as one short graphic novel.
[S]ure to pull on heartstrings and make romance readers swoon.” —
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About the Author
ELIZABETH EULBERG is not a detective (or so she claims). She is, however, the internationally bestselling author of
The Lonely Hearts Club,
Prom & Prejudice,
Take a Bow,
Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality,
Better Off Friends, and
We Can Work it Out. Elizabeth lives outside Manhattan, where she spends her free time stalking English bulldogs in her neighborhood and filling her brain attic with random pop-culture facts.
The Great Shelby Holmes is her first middle-grade novel.

Anna-Marie McLemore was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and taught by their family to hear la llorona in the Santa Ana winds. They are the author of
The Weight of Feathers, a 2016 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist; 2017 Stonewall Honor Book
When the Moon Was Ours, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature;
Wild Beauty, a Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Booklist best book of 2017;
Blanca & Roja, a
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice;
Dark and Deepest Red, a Winter 2020 Indie Next List title; and
The Mirror Season, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature.

Marissa Meyer is the #1
New York Times–bestselling author of the Renegades Trilogy, The Lunar Chronicles series, the
Wires and Nerve graphic novels, and The Lunar Chronicles Coloring Book. Her first standalone novel,
Heartless, was also a #1
New York Times bestseller. Marissa created and hosts a podcast called The Happy Writer. She lives in Tacoma, Washington, with her husband and their two daughters.

Caleb Roehrig’s debut YA thriller,
Last Seen Leaving, was called one of the Best YA Novels of 2016 by Buzzfeed.com. Caleb lives with his husband in Los Angeles.

Sarah Winifred Searle originally hails from spooky New England but currently lives in sunny Perth, Australia. She writes and draws comics, from vulnerable memoir to compassionate fiction. Her first graphic novel SINCERELY, HARRIET, debuted from Graphic Universe in May 2019.