From Heartache to Harmony: Love, Loss, and the Music That Binds Us

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Saturday, November 16

YA HQ Tent

Romance readers won’t want to miss this panel featuring two important voices in the genre. In Abdi Nazemian’s Desert Echoes, Kam struggles to move forward years after the boy he fell for, Ash, goes missing. Kam returns to Joshua Tree, the last place he saw Ash, and has the chance to confront the past and open himself up to a new beginning. In Canto Contigo, Jonny Garza Villa has written a spellbinding story of young love, rivalry, and grief. Through the relationship between its two mariachi main characters, Rafie and Rey, Villa explores the importance of both holding on and letting go.