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Also by Emma Lord:

For the Record, August 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Rival, February 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Break-Up Pact, August 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
The Getaway List, February 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Begin Again, February 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
You Have a Match, January 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
When You Get the Chance, January 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
You Have a Match, January 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Tweet Cute, February 2020
Hardcover / e-Book

THE RIVAL
By: Emma Lord

A Novel

Wednesday Books
February 2025
On Sale: January 21, 2025
Featuring: Sadie; Seb
320 pages
ISBN: 1250904021
EAN: 9781250904027
Kindle: B0CZMFPFWF
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult | Romance Comedy

Rivals-to-lovers gets an academic send-up in this charming and irresistible romantic comedy from Emma Lord, New York Times bestselling author of Tweet Cute and Begin Again.

At long last, Sadie has vanquished her lifelong academic rival — her irritatingly charming, whip smart next door neighbor, Seb — by getting the coveted, only spot to her dream college. Or at least, so she thinks. When Seb is unexpectedly pulled off the waitlist and admitted, Sadie has to compete with him all over again, this time to get a spot on the school’s famous zine. Now not only is she dealing with the mayhem of the lovable, chaotic family she hid her writing talents from, as well as her own self doubt, but she has to come to terms with some less-than-resentful feelings for Seb that are popping up along the way.

But the longer they compete, the more Sadie and Seb notice flaws in the school’s system that are much bigger than any competition between them. Somehow the two of them have to band together even as they’re trying to crush each other, only to discover they may have met their match in more ways than one.