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Deal: Matthew Hubbard

Mar 302026
 

Matthew Hubbard’s HOW TO BREAK HIS HEART, pitched as Heated Rivalry meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, following two collegiate hockey teammates with a complicated history of hooking up; one wants to make the other fall in love using romance tropes for a lit paper, and the other wants to break his heart for a psychology project, only real feelings get in the way of their mastermind schemes, to Katie Holt at Saturday Books, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2027, by Katie Shea Boutillier (world English).