Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood Dark fantasy character-driven fantasy with a heavy

character-driven fantasy with a heavy dose of romance

with nothing but two corpses for company

the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant

a disgraced knight

Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood Dark fantasy character-driven fantasy with a heavyA charming riot of a YA debut! Mallory 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 to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious king killer Nolan Sawyer, current world, champion, and raining bad boy of