WAYFARERS

In this romantic contemporary novel in verse, a girl trying to outrun her problems and a boy discovering the outside world for the first time let down their walls as they travel across the country on a life-changing road trip that channels Kasie West and Morgan Matson.

BREAKOUT SUMMER ROMANCE: This is the summer romance of any teen's dreams. Sylvie and Knox get to know each other while traveling around the middle of the country by playing a truth-telling game. That way, the secrets that they're keeping from each other don't feel as weighty. This is a heartfelt romance that, like Sunrise Nights, is told in both verse and conversations.

POWERHOUSE AUTHOR COLLAB: We're thrilled to be the home for co-authored novels by this amazing duo! Brittany Cavallaro is a beloved Harper house author whose Charlotte Holmes series hit the New York Times bestseller list. Jeff Zentner won the Morris Award, among other accolades, for his teen novels with PRH. They're amazing collaborators, and Wayfarers is the perfect next read for their fans.

OPPOSITES ATTRACT: Sylvie and Knox come from very different backgroundsSylvie is from a life of uncaring privilege and Knox is from a nomadic group that never spends more than one season in a location. However, both of them feel the weight of the world acutely. Teens will certainly be able to relate to feeling off-track thanks to intense pressures, and will enjoy watching Sylvie and Knox find their direction again.

Jeff Zentner is the author of the New York Times Notable Books The Serpent King and In the Wild Light. He has won the ALA's William C. Morris Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award twice, the Muriel Becker Award, and the International Literacy Association Award for Young Adult Fiction and has been longlisted twice for the Carnegie Medal. Before becoming a writer, he was a musician who recorded with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Debbie Harry. He lives in Nashville.

Brittany Cavallaro is the New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Charlotte and the Charlotte Holmes novels. With Emily Henry she wrote the young adult thriller Hello Girls. Cavallaro is also the author of the poetry collections Girl-King and Unhistorical and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry. She lives in Michigan, where she teaches creative writing at Interlochen.