Hi everyone! Torch Lit Ink is celebrating the upcoming YA romance from J.L. Wyer with a release blitz event!
Title: The Kiss Wish (a sweet YA romance)
Release Date: April 29, 2025
eARCs will be limited.**
𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒓𝒃:
The Kiss Wish is a Contemporary Romance Writers Stiletto Finalist in Young Adult romance!
From J.L. Wyer, the award-winning author of The Boyfriend List, comes a sweet YA romance that will melt your heart.
After two years away, sixteen-year-old Ellie Goodwyn returns to her hometown of Dearborne, North Carolina, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s just one problem: Kohen Nicolls. Her ex-best friend.
Once inseparable, Kohen and Ellie are now worlds apart. The boy she once knew is now ridiculously good-looking, insanely popular, and seems to have completely forgotten she exists. Somewhere on the roadmap of life, Kohen deviated onto an exit ramp to Destination Popularity as the football player with the dazzling cobalt-blue eyes and a fan club Ellie has no interest in joining, whereas Ellie got stuck in a broken-down car on the Road to Anonymity as the quiet girl who prefers the make-believe of books over the chaos of real life.
Unfortunately for Ellie, her well-meaning—and meddling—friend Mallory is about to shake things up. To drag Ellie out of her shell, Mallory secretly signs her up for the town’s Christmas pageant—Ellie’s personal nightmare, thanks to a humiliating past performance. And when the only person who can help Ellie prepare for the pageant is Kohen, mishaps ensue, sparks fly, and their long-lost connection begins to flicker back to life.
Thrown together in a whirlwind of awkward moments and hilarious disasters, Ellie starts to see glimpses of the boy she once trusted with her heart, and the more they reconnect, the harder it becomes to ignore one undeniable truth: she’s falling for him.
When the pageant’s magical wishing star ceremony gives Ellie the chance to write her most desired wish, she’s left wondering if she’s brave enough to wish for something real.
Packed with laugh-out-loud banter, swoon-worthy moments, and the magic of second chances, The Kiss Wish is a sweet YA rom-comabout finding courage, rediscovering the person who once meant everything, and the sweetness of first kisses.
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small town, sweet, rom-com, ex-childhood best friends, second chances, first kiss, coming of age, high school, hilarious mishaps, swoon-worthy moments, laugh-out-loud banter, wishes really do come true, opposites attract, award finalist
