Serious Moonlight

Genre: YA contemporary romance

ISBN: 1534425144, 9781534425156

Hardcover North American release date: April 16, 2019 (Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster, photographic cover)

Trade paperback North American release date: January 5, 2021 (BFYR, Simon and Schuster, purple illustrated cover)

A Kirkus Best YA Book of 2019

A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee

Description:

After an awkward first encounter, Birdie and Daniel are forced to work together in a Seattle hotel where a famous author leads a mysterious and secluded life in this romantic contemporary novel from the author of Alex, Approximately.

Mystery-book aficionado Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. Raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents, she’s cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. But her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college, working the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel.

In her new job, Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer, and gregarious Daniel Aoki volunteers to be her guide. The hotel’s charismatic young van driver shares the same nocturnal shift and patronizes the waterfront Moonlight Diner where she waits for the early morning ferry after work. Daniel also shares her appetite for intrigue, and he’s stumbled upon a real-life mystery: a famous reclusive writer—never before seen in public—might be secretly meeting someone at the hotel.

To uncover the writer’s puzzling identity, Birdie must come out of her shell…discovering that most confounding mystery of all may be her growing feelings for the elusive riddle that is Daniel.

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“An atmospheric, multilayered, sex-positive romance from the talented Bennett.” — Kirkus, ★ Starred Review

“Imbued with a rich sense of place and the magic of first love, this is a heartfelt, sex-positive romance that tackles grief, depression, illness, and disability with nuance. Daniel and Birdie are mature, likable characters with strong communication skills… Compulsively readable and enormously fun.” —School Library Journal

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