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Out of Step, into You is a sapphic contemporary romance following childhood friends turned cross-country team rivals who are forced to work together to win the state championship – for fans of She Gets the Girl.
You can’t outrun love.
Taylor and Marianna were each other’s whole world – best friends, running partners, practically sisters – until Marianna moved away and Taylor promptly ghosted her. When the former best friends turned rivals end up on the same cross-country team three years later, everything is a competition… and a reminder of past feelings, as well as blossoming new ones.
Marianna runs because she’s angry.The oldest child of a single mother, she knows all about responsibility – for her siblings, at her part-time job. She just has to stay focused and be faster than the past nipping at her heels if she wants to secure a new, brighter future. With or without Taylor.
Taylor runs to prove herself. The only child of an almost-Olympian, she’s no stranger to high expectations. With enough effort, she knows she can immortalize herself with a state record and make her parents proud. Then, she can figure out her own passion. She definitely doesn’t have time to untangle her feelings towards Mari.
Can this pair figure out a way to work together before their past catches up with them?
Published by: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Expected Publication: May 20, 2025
Why I’m Waiting: Everything about this is screaming Nikki lol They’re runners, they’re Black, they’re 2SLGBTQ+, it’s a friends to lovers romance, ANDDDDD there’s dogs on the cover. What is there to not like? And then, wtf it says her parent is an almost Olympian and I already love it? WHO DO I GIVE MY KIDNEY TO TO GET ONE NOW????????
What about you? What do you think of the cover? Do you like any of the same things about it that I do? Let me know in the comments!