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NYT Bestseller Kiera Cass Talks About Her New YA Romance—and Why She Loves to Make Readers Cry

This post was originally published on Dead Darlings, a blog about novel writing run by alumni of GrubStreet's Novel Incubator program.
When I heard that the author of The Selection—one of my favorite series of all time—was writing a new standalone romance, I knew I had to get a copy. In A Thousand Heartbeats, #1 New York Times Bestseller Kiera Cass gives us the kind of sweeping, character-centric, slow-burn royalty romance we’ve come to expect from her. A classic enemies-to-lovers plot with dueling points of view, this story was right up my alley. …