Check and Mate

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Check & Mate

By Ali Hazelwood’s

“Sometimes to find the person you’re meant to be with, you have to go a little off course…”

Mallory Greenleaf swore off chess after it tore her family apart. Once a teenage prodigy, she now juggles dead-end jobs to help support her sick mother and younger sisters, with no plans to ever sit at a chessboard again.

But when she’s coaxed into playing a charity tournament, Mallory unexpectedly beats Nolan Sawyer—the current world champion and chess’s reigning “bad boy.” Suddenly, her quiet life is upended. Nolan is intrigued by her and wants a rematch. Tournament invites roll in. A spotlight she never wanted begins to follow her.