Queen of the Tiles

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They Wish They Were Us meets The Queens Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.

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noun: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change

When Najwa Bakri walks into her first Scrabble competition since her best friends death, its with the intention to heal and move on with her life. Perhaps it wasnt the best idea to choose the very same competition where said best friend, Trina Low, died. It might be even though Najwas trying to change, shes not ready to give up Trina just yet.

But the same cant be said for all the other competitors. With Trina, the Scrabble Queen herself, gone, the throne is empty, and her friends are eager to be the next reigning champion. Alls fair in love and Scrabble, but all bets are off when Trinas formerly inactive Instagram starts posting again, with cryptic messages suggesting that maybe Trinas death wasnt as straightforward as everyone thought. And maybe someone at the competition had something to do with it.

As secrets are revealed and the true colors of her friends are shown, its up to Najwa to find out whos behind these mysterious postsnot just to save Trinas memory, but to save herself.

Author Bio

Hanna Alkaf is the author ofThe Weight of Our Sky,Queen of the Tiles,The Girl and The Ghost,andHamra and the Jungle of Memories, as well as coeditor of the young adult anthologyThe Grimoire of Grave Fates.She graduated with a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and has spent most of her life working with words, both in fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Kuala Lumpur with her family.