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Also by Rainbow Rowell:

Cherry Baby, April 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Slow Dance, August 2024
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Wayward Son, March 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
If the Fates Allow: A Short Story, November 2021
e-Book / audiobook
Any Way the Wind Blows, July 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Fangirl, Vol. 1, October 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
Wayward Son, October 2019
Hardcover
Fangirl, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Eleanor & Park, March 2013
Hardcover / e-Book

IF THE FATES ALLOW: A SHORT STORY
By: Rainbow Rowell

Amazon Publishing
November 2021
On Sale: November 18, 2021
Kindle: B09DKP4JHY
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Romance Contemporary | Romance Holiday

After a long, lonely year, two people stumble toward each other in this holiday short story by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and Fangirl.

Social distancing came easily to Reagan. Maybe a little too easily. She’s always liked people better from afar. But Reagan doesn’t want her grandpa to be alone for Christmas this year—he’s already spent too much time on his own in 2020. So she heads back to her hometown with a dish of holiday Jell-O salad, hoping they can have a little normalcy. Hoping it will be safe…

She isn’t expecting to run into the boy next door. Mason is all grown up now. He’s considerate. He’s funny. He doesn’t mind how prickly Reagan is—he maybe even likes it. And it makes Reagan feel like her defenses are falling. She needs her defenses, doesn’t she? In a time when six feet is close enough, how long can they keep their distance?