"A unique epic debut about love under high tension"

Soulmates - Holly Bourne - Anniversary Edition

The end of the world or a life without love?

Every so often, two people are born who are each other's perfect match: soulmates. You're more likely to be struck by lightning than to find your soulmate, but when two such people meet and fall in love, nature runs wild.

Poppy is seventeen years old, cynical, and has little faith in love. But then she meets Noah, the sexy guitarist, to whom her mind and body react intensely. A relationship of attraction and repulsion develops, but their attraction soon becomes so strong that major disasters threaten. The heavy rain showers, lightning, and storms are just the beginning.

With a secret police organization on their heels, Poppy and Noah are faced with an impossible choice: the end of the world or a life without love…

Soulmates. Soul mates. Not really something I'd ever believed in. It was a Hollywood buzzword, a concept invented to sell novels and movie rights. People call it love, romance, soul mates, and all that other nonsense. But in my eyes, it was purely a matter of hormones, biology, chemistry, served on a bed of happily ever after and homemade delusions born from the fear of being alone. Of course, you're always cynical until you fall in love yourself… The problem was, Hollywood, Stephenie Meyer, and the Bouquet series were right. Soul mates did indeed exist.

What they just didn't understand was that finding yours isn't always a good thing…

Holly Bourne is a journalist for TheSite, a website offering advice and information for young people aged 16 to 25, with over 100,000 visitors per month. She also serves as a relationship counselor for the website, offering advice to young people about their love lives. Before this, she worked for a local newspaper for two years and was nominated for Print Journalist of the Year in 2010. To avoid being overly influenced by the problems young people face on her site, she decided to also write for pleasure around her deadlines. Soulmates is her first novel.

Soulmates is a book about first love . About what it feels like to feel an instant, irresistible connection with someone. About how the earth shifts and the feelings you have for each other can move heaven and earth. But this is a book about what happens when that love actually shifts the earth. About creating storms. And about frizzy hair and absolutely nothing to wear. And about lightning strikes. And heartbreaking disasters. This is first, bizarre, true love. With an earth-shattering twist.

DUTCH | 9789048313990 | 480 pages | Age 14+