Our Cursed Love by Julie Abe (Hardcover)

YA Fiction - Romance - Contemporary 

RELEASE DATE: 12/12/2023 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE)

A magical 50 FIRST DATES meets LOVE AND GELATO set in Tokyo, Japan about destiny, the impact of the choices we make, and the magic of true love.

Remy Kobata has always wished she was destined to be with her best friend, Cam Yasuda. All the way from being neighbors from birth to mixing up magical prank potions together to their “just friends” homecoming date during their senior year in high school, nothing’s a secret between Remy and Cam—except for how much she is in love with him.

Remy is trying to work up the courage to confess her feelings during their winter break trip to Japan, when she gets selected for a mystical tea leaves reading and it reveals that they’re not meant to be together. After they stumble upon a secret magical apothecary in the back alleys of Tokyo, Remy and Cam are offered an ancient soulmate elixir, created before all love potions were banned by the magical government. They each have their reasons for wanting to take it, but what could go wrong with finding your soulmate a little earlier?

Except, after they drink up, their senior year trip flips into the worst vacation ever: Cam has forgotten who she is. If Remy can't help Cam remember her by midnight New Year’s Eve, they’ll both be cursed to forget each other. To unravel their past and rewrite the future, Remy and Cam must travel through Tokyo to rediscover Cam’s memories and make new ones—and maybe even fall in love all over again.

AUTHOR BIO: 

Julie Abe is the author of many books, including the EVA EVERGREEN and TESSA MIYATA middle grade series, and the young adult novels OUR CURSED LOVE and THE CHARMED LIST. She has lived in Silicon Valley, spent many humid summers in Japan, and currently basks in the sunshine of Southern California with never enough books or tea, where she writes stories with a spark of magic.

"Pure magic." - Roselle Lim, author of Sophie Go’s Lonely Hearts Club

"A perfectly modern fairytale . . . Readers will fall in love with Remy and Cam as they learn that the only thing better than magic is the love that makes it worthwhile…and perhaps the confidence (and snacks!) they discover along the way." - Ashley Schumacher, author of The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway

“Julie Abe has a talent for building whimsical settings and romantic chemistry that keeps the pages turning.” -Racquel Marie, author of Ophelia After All