Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood Dark fantasy Laced with black humor and

Laced with black humor and crackling sexualized prose

with nothing but two corpses for company

” —Stephanie Garber

including seventeen-year-old Aster Oberon and her pirate family

the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant

Check and Mate by Ali Hazelwood Dark fantasy Laced with black humor andA 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