Hi, everyone! Today is the day! ZYLA & KAI is on sale now! You can purchase it here in any format, and you can order signed and personalized copies from my local indie Inkwood Books!

A fresh new YA romance novel by Kristina Forest, Zyla & Kai is an epic star-crossed love story about first love and not just the will they, won’t they — but why can’t they?

While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a storm) high school seniors, Zyla Matthews and Kai Johnson, run away together leaving their friends and family confused. As far as everyone knows, Zyla and Kai have been broken up for months. And honestly? Their break up hadn’t surprised anyone. Zyla and Kai met while working together at an amusement park the previous summer, and they couldn’t have been more different.

Zyla was a cynic about love. She’d witnessed the dissolution of her parents’ marriage early in life, and it left an indelible impression. Her only aim was graduating and going to fashion school abroad. Until she met Kai.

Kai was a serial monogamist and a hopeless romantic. He’d put a temporary pause on his dating life before senior year to focus on school and getting into his dream HBCU. Until he met Zyla.

Alternating between the past and present, we see the love story unfold from Zyla and Kai’s perspectives: how they first became the unlikeliest of friends over the summer, how they fell in love during the school year, and why they ultimately broke up… Or did they?

Romantic, heart-stirring and a little mysterious, Zyla & Kai will keep readers guessing until the last chapter.

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I’ll be having a virtual launch with Maurene Goo, hosted by The Ripped Bodice tomorrow at 5pm PT/8pm ET. You can RSVP here! And if you’re in the NJ area, I’ll be having an in-person launch at Inkwood Books tonight at 7pm ET.

I hope you love reading this book as much as I loved writing it. <3

xo, Kristina

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ZYLA & KAI is on sale now!