A fresh new YA romance novel by Kristina Forest Zyla & Kai is an epic star-crossed love story
about first love and not just the will they won t they but why can t they? While on a school
trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a snowstorm) high school seniors Zyla Matthews
and Kai Johnson run away together leaving their friends and family confused. As far as
everyone knows Zyla and Kai have been broken up for months. And real talk? No one believed
Zyla and Kai would last that long anyway. Everyone had their own reasons why these two would
never make it. Zyla and Kai met while working together at an amusement park the previous
summer. Zyla was a cynic about love. She'd witnessed the dissolution of her parents' marriage
early in life and it left an indelible impression. Her only focus was graduating and going to
fashion school abroad. Until she met Kai. Kai was a serial monogamist since middle school and
a hopeless romantic. He had put a temporary pause on his dating life during Senior Year to
focus on school and getting into his dream HBCU. Until he met Zyla. Alternating between the
past and present we see the love story unfold from Zyla and Kai s perspectives: how they first
became the unlikeliest of friends over the summer how they fell in love during the school year
and why they ultimately broke up. Or did they? As we hear the perspectives of their family and
friends we see how perceptions of their relationship started to shape how Zyla and Kai saw
each other and how they ultimately filtered out the noise to focus on their feelings. The
story unfolds as a mystery that will keep readers guessing until the last chapter.
