You Have a Match

by Emma Lord

  Thank you to Janna. It is the world’s biggest understatement to say none of this would have happened without you, but if I correctly state it, it will come out in multiple sentences of caps lock, and people will be alarmed.

  Thank you to my niece, Marcella, for being born. I got to chill with your parents for a few of the coolest days of my life doing research for this book, and then you were cooking at the same time I was writing it. You came out much cuter! Flawless first draft! Your little baby smiles are my new favorite thing. You will be over a year old by the time this book comes out and it feels illegal that we’re letting you grow up so fast.

  Thank you to the Barbee family for all of the Vashon adventures. Those memories are stamped into my heart forever, and so many of them made it into this book.

  Thank you to 23andMe for telling me about my unibrow. Rest assured, I already knew.

  Thank you to my vast writer-y squad. To Suzie and Kadeen, the kind of friends who don’t flinch when you yell in an otherwise dead silent cabin, “I’M GOING TO CONTROL-F + REPLACE-ALL TWO OF THESE CHARACTERS’ NAMES, IT TURNS OUT I HATE THEM!” when you’re 310 pages into a draft. To Gaby and Erin and Cristina, for endless conversations commiserating over books and writerly woes and always having the best advice—y’all are the most ~marquee~ friends a girl could ask for. To my soul twin, JQ, who now knows the publishing industry inside out because she has heard every trial and tribulation in exhaustive detail, and is the kind of brave I want both my human self and my characters to be. To my fellow Wednesday authors, who I’d die/kill for despite being a Hufflepuff down to the marrow of my bones.

  Extremely bless everyone at AfterWork Theater. I’d be lost without you guys, and I mean that both emotionally and also literally because I’m a delinquent and watch y’all for all our dance cues. Cheesus only knows what I’d do without jazz hands and post-rehearsal Bud Lights and ridiculous ensemble backstories. It’s an honor being everyone’s Weird Dad TM.

  And as always, thank you to my mom and dad. You didn’t just give me an awesome life, but the three best humans to guide me through it. I could write a bajillion stories and not come close to the magic of what you guys made for us.

  ALSO BY EMMA LORD

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  About the Author

  EMMA LORD is the author of Tweet Cute and is a digital media editor living in New York City, where she spends whatever time she isn’t writing either running or belting show tunes in community theater. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a major in psychology and a minor in how to tilt your computer screen so nobody will notice you updating your fanfiction from the back row. She was raised on glitter, grilled cheese, and a whole lot of love. Her sun sign is Hufflepuff, but she is a Gryffindor rising. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  One

  Two

  Three

  Four

  Five

  Six

  Seven

  Eight

  Nine

  Ten

  Eleven

  Twelve

  Thirteen

  Fourteen

  Fifteen

  Sixteen

  Seventeen

  Eighteen

  Nineteen

  Twenty

  Twenty-One

  Twenty-Two

  Twenty-Three

  Twenty-Four

  Twenty-Five

  Twenty-Six

  Twenty-Seven

  Twenty-Eight

  Twenty-Nine

  Thirty

  Thirty-One

  Thirty-Two

  Thirty-Three

  Thirty-Four

  Thirty-Five

  Thirty-Six

  Thirty-Seven

  One Year Later

  Acknowledgments

  Also by Emma Lord

  About the Author

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  First published in the United States by Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group

  YOU HAVE A MATCH. Copyright © 2020 by Emma Lord. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

  www.wednesdaybooks.com

  Cover illustration by Kristen Solecki

  Cover design by Kerri Resnick

  The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

  ISBN 978-1-250-23730-9 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-1-250-81301-5 (international, sold outside the U.S., subject to rights availability)

  ISBN 978-1-250-23731-6 (ebook)

  eISBN 9781250237316

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  First U.S. Edition: 2021

  First International Edition: 2021