Young Adult Romance Books

Hannah Grace for YA readers, this is a motor racing romance revving with tension on and off the track! Cody has the next few years of her life all planned out: get top A-level results, attend Cambridge University with her gorgeous boyfriend Rob and find her dream job on a motor racing team. But on results day, one phone call changes everything. A top motor racing team have headhunted her and need her ready for the upcoming season! Rob is less than pleased that the plan has fallen apart, and Cody arrives in Melbourne heartbroken and single, ready for the first race. Cody is introduced to her team's drivers: 19 year old nepo baby Carl, whose dad was a racing prodigy, and Austin, who grew up riding dirt bikes and has an astonishing natural aptitude for racing. On screen they play it friendly, but behind the tracks they are fierce rivals, made only worse when they both start falling for Cody. There's also Leo, the leader driver of their main rival team, who seems set on winning the season no matter what... Who will ultimately win the race for Cody's heart? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780702345708 • Author: Tyra Prince • Publisher: Scholastic Limited • Format: Paperback  • Pages: 288 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm

From award-winning screenwriter of The Hunger Games movies Billy Ray comes an immersive and breathtaking enemies-to-lovers epic romance about war, loyalty and the power that love has to save ... or destroy. The year is 2425 and London is underwater. Three hundred years ago, rising oceans drowned a vast majority of the English Isle. London is now a jungle of dead skyscrapers and submerged streets. Fighting over the scraps of a world none can remember, two Houses - the Crowns and the Rogues - have been at war for three centuries. Rafe is the Rogue army's fiercest captain. Jule is the Crown army's deadliest soldier. They are vicious and merciless, courageous and beloved by their Houses. They are sworn enemies. And then they fall in love. It's a death sentence. But their love is all-consuming. As Rafe and Jule try to keep each other alive in their war-torn world, they are forced to confront new, horrifying threats. When mysterious foreigners appear on their shores, the warring factions may destroy each other, unless their two most ruthless soldiers can show their people a different way and save them all. A thrilling, war-torn, enemies-to-lovers romance set in future London This is YA dystopian Romeo & Juliet as two rival soldiers risk everything they've ever known to fall in love. Perfect for fans of Shatter Me, the Delirium triology and Lightlark. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780702344862 • Author: Billy Ray  • Publisher: Scholastic Limited • Format: Paperback     • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3 cm

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya... Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in the most epic and sizzling fantasy romance book of the year.  The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that, banished from the kingdom of Ilya and shunned from society. No one knows this better than Paedyn Gray, an Ordinary posing as a Psychic to blend in with the Elites. When she unsuspectingly saves one of Ilya's princes, Kai Azer, she's thrown into the Purging Trials, a brutal competition showcasing the Elites' powers.  If the Trials and the opponents within them don't kill her, the prince she's fighting feelings for will if he discovers what Paedyn is... completely Ordinary. Be swept away by the first in the romantasy trilogy taking the world by storm.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781398529489 • Author: Lauren Roberts • Publisher:  Simon & Schuster • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  528 • Dimensions:  13 x 19.8 x 3.1 cm

One kiss lasts a moment. But a thousand kisses can last a lifetime. One boy. One girl. A bond that is forged in an instant and cherished for a decade. A bond that neither time nor distance can break. A bond that will last forever. Or so they believe. When seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from his native Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia, where he befriended Poppy Litchfield as a child, he has just one thing on his mind. Why did the girl who was one half of his soul, who promised to wait faithfully for his return, cut him off without a word of explanation? Rune’s heart was broken two years ago when Poppy fell silent. When he discovers the truth, he finds that the greatest heartache is yet to come. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781405993647 • Author: Tillie Cole • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352

A letter from the future . . . a lifetime to fall in love. A speculative romance that will bring you back to love for fans of Dustin Thao and Jenny Han. Lonely girl Emma doesn't believe in love, but she wishes for proof of its existence. When she receives a love letter from the future: If I'm being honest, I've loved you since the moment I met you, the search begins for the mysterious boy who claims he is the love of her life. Is it Ezra, the absurdly popular musical genius? Theo, the literal boy next door, who knows Emma best? Or Colin, the overly confident, overly handsome, overly rich kid she's just met? As Emma tries to uncover the identity of the letter writer, the mystery turns into something greater: a journey of self-discovery. In the end, Emma will learn the key to making love last and how it’s the point of, well . . . everything. A swoony letter to love in all its forms from New York Times bestselling author, Emiko Jean. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398555716 • Author: Emiko Jean • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Format: Paperback  • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2 cm

It’s been a year since his best friend, Sam, died. Even though Oliver knows he won’t get a response, he can’t stop texting Sam’s number, especially as the anniversary of his death approaches. Then one day he accidentally hits the call button, and someone picks up. Sam’s number was reassigned and a stranger has been receiving Oliver’s private and vulnerable messages for months. But Ben, a college student in Seattle, won’t remain a stranger for long. When they finally meet in person, their spark is undeniable. Everything seems perfect until Oliver discovers something impossible and strange that will keep them from being together . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781035052431 • Author: Dustin Thao • Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 304

CALEB I came to the lake to be left alone, to lick my wounds. I wasn't counting on neighbors and I especially wasn't counting on her. Lucie was a little kid the last time I was here. Now she's grown-and God, did she ever grow up-with two little kids of her own. She's everywhere I look, no matter how hard I try to avoid her. I'd forgotten all the things I used to want, used to dream about. She's reminding me...and making me want every last one of them again. LUCIE From the moment I first saw Caleb when I was six, I knew he belonged to me. And I knew I'd have to save him-because how else does the girl nobody wants win over the boy beloved by all? Nothing about his life or mine has gone to plan. He's isolated and miserable. I've got a vindictive ex and more problems than I can count. But what hasn't changed is this: it still feels like he's mine. And I still think I may need to save him. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780349440699 • Author: Elizabeth O'Roark • Publisher: Piatkus • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 304 • Dimensions: 12.6 x 3.4 x 19.6cm

Who are you at 16, if you can't remember anything about your life since you were 12?  A brilliant exploration of identity and love for YA readers, by the bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fragments of the last three-and-a-half years of her life. She discovers that she has a tennis-champion boyfriend but can't remember him, is co-editor of the yearbook with a quirky guy who wears a smoking jacket, her parents are divorced, and she apparently hates her mother.  She has friends who simply don't seem that attractive any more and, despite having meticulously kept a diary during the now-lost years, she only wrote about what she ate every day in it! But when a girl loses three-and-a-half years, she gets a chance to reinvent herself. After all, who is to say that everything has to stay the same?  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781526676030 • Author:  Gabrielle Zevin • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  271 • Dimensions:  12.8 x 19.8 x 2.1 cm

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They've finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick's house ... But with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change? Heartstopper encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us. Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781444957655 • Author:  Alice Oseman • Publisher:  Hachette Children's Group • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  336 • Dimensions:  23.4 x 15.3 cm