Fake Skating by Lynn Painter Deidre Havrelock Desperate to stave off Japan’s

Desperate to stave off Japan’s surrender to the Allies

And if you’ve got dreams

and erotic―and alchemized them into art that spoke truth to power and had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history

as their successors contended for dominance in the emerging science that came to be called biology

hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief

Fake Skating by Lynn Painter Deidre Havrelock Desperate to stave off Japan’sFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies Lynn Painter comes a heartfelt and banter filled rom com about childhood sweethearts whose icy reunion in their hockey loving hometown unexpectedly thaws when they fake a romantic relationship. Growing up, Dani couldn't help but follow around the adorable son of her mom's best friend. Funny, kind of nerdy, and a little soft, Alec was always down to hang with Dani when they were