The Here and Now by Ann Brashares
“From the author who brought us The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants comes the gripping page-turner about a girl who’s willing to risk it all for love and the fate of the world.” –Teen Vogue
Follow the rules… Remember what happened… Never fall in love.
New York Times Bestselling author returns to YA with this romantic thriller…
The original queen of YA and author of the international bestselling Sisterhood series Ann Brashares is back on the teen scene with her biggest novel yet. Brashares enters a whole new world in this thriller while still capturing the teen voice and heart in the way we have come to know and love from her.
Brashares created a cultural phenomenon with the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series and her legions of fans are thrilled for her return to the YA world. The impossible romance, thrilling twists and turns, and of course, the hardcore female lead, will have new fans and old fans alike celebrating her exciting return to YA.
About the book: The Here And Now is the story of seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn’t come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins.
Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they’re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she’s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth and stop humanity’s destruction. But everything changes when Prenna falls for Ethan Jarves. Thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking, The Here And Now is a twenty-first-century take on an impossible romance. A girl from the future might be able to save us . . . if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to.
Ann Brashares is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, 3 Willows, The Last Summer (of You & Me), and My Name Is Memory. She lives in New York City with her husband and their four children. Discover more about Ann on AnnBrasharesBooks.com. Follow her on Twitter @AnnBrashares. Delacorte Press is an imprint of Random House Children’s Books (www.randomhouse.com/teens), the world’s largest English- language children’s trade book publisher. Random House Children’s Books is a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company.
