THE WINGED GAME

Fantasy meets sports romance in this sizzling slow-burn novel in which the disgraced star of a brutal magical sport must team up with the rival who destroyed her career, from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The God and the Gumiho.This trophy-worthy first edition hardcover features designed sprayed edges, illustrated endpapers with a high-flying romantic moment, and a deluxe jacket with sculpture emboss and foil&mdash,show off your team colors, while supplies last!&ldquo,Fourth Wing-meets-rugby is something I didn't know I needed in my life, but now I&rsquo,m obsessed. The Winged Game is going to be the next big thing for sure!&rdquo,&mdash,Ruby Dixon, New York Times bestselling authorCarriwitchet, the violent, rugby-esque game played atop winged beasts, was once Taissa Cho&rsquo,s whole life, and she was once the United Kingdom&rsquo,s most promising player. Until her nemesis, rival player Kion Locke, destroyed her career in a single moment. Expelled from the sport in disgrace, Taissa has spent the last two years dreaming of nothing but revenge and relishing watching Kion&rsquo,s team plummet to the bottom of the league.So when Taissa is offered the chance to redeem herself and her career, she can&rsquo,t refuse&mdash,even if the offer is coming from the very man who ruined everything in the first place. It&rsquo,s close to a dream come true . . . except for that pesky clause in her contract that demands she and Kion enter a fake relationship in order to garner some much-needed positive PR for the team. This could not be a worse match. Taissa and Kion only have two things in common: their love of the game, and their undying hatred for each other.Yet as a mysterious illness befalls the winged creatures of the entire league&mdash,putting both the beasts&rsquo, lives and the very sport itself at stake&mdash,the athletes find themselves partnering up in other ways, determined to crack the case of the eerie sickness. As their investigation takes them on a whirlwind adventure, Kion and Taissa are prepared for anything . . .Anything, that is, but their fake-for-the-cameras relationship to maybe, just maybe, become something real after all.