Check & Mate

Closed, opens at 10amIndependent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Swoon City when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

In 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 agrees to play in one last charity tournament an