Maddie + Max

<p><strong>Winner of the 2025 Beach Book Festival (Romance)</strong> <em>Maddie + Max</em> is an unforgettable <strong>YA romance about first love heartbreak and the soul-deep connections that never fade.</strong></p><p>When Maddie and Max meet it feels like old souls coming home. She loves easily freely without fear. For him love is fragile-something to be earned something he doesn't believe he deserves.</p><p>Their secret moments together are tender electric and fleeting-until Max's hidden truth tears them apart. Years later fate throws them back together in an instant of passion leaving Maddie with a secret of her own... one she can't reveal.</p><p>Haunted by dreams of each other caught between miscommunication and longing Maddie and Max are forced to face the truth: some love stories are written across decades. But can theirs survive the pain the distance and the heartbreak of growing up?</p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Set against the nostalgic backdrop of the 1990s Midwest-with hockey games high school milestones and all the raw intensity of first love-this award-winning novel is perfect for fans of emotional YA romance second-chance love stories and bingeable reads that make you laugh cry and remember your own first love.</em></p>