This Could Be Forever

This compelling and complex romance about love across cultures follows a Black girl and Brown boy who find themselvesand each otherwhile pursuing their passions the summer before college.

Dejas got a plan. The first in her large family to go to college, she wants to study chemistry and sell natural skin care products, like the ones she already creates from plants grown on her familys North Carolina farm. It all starts with the Onward Bound summer program at the University of Maryland, the summer before school officially starts.

Rajas got a dream. His traditional Nepali parents want him to study engineering and settle down in an arranged marriage, but his passion is art, and he wants to open his own tattoo parlor one day. In the meantime, hes apprenticing at a tattoo shop in College Park, Maryland.

When Deja walks into the shop where Rajas working, they both start crushing hardover the course of the summer, they fall more and more deeply for one another. But the closer they get and the more their lives entwine, the more they find that dating someone who doesnt match your parents expectations is harder than they ever imagined.

Can they bridge the divide between the vision their families have for their futures and the livesand lovethat are starting to feel like destiny?

Ebony LaDelle is the author ofLove Radiowhich wasPeoplemagazines best book of the summer, a 2023 Audie Award Finalist, a 2023 Michigan Notable Book, and was featured on theTodayshowand is the editor of the forthcoming romance anthology,Youve Got a Place Here, Too. Prior to being an author, Ebony was a brand marketing director in book publishing and worked at Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, among others. You can visit her online at EbonyLaDelle.com and follow her on social at @EbonyLaDelle.

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
  
• Publish Date: May 20, 2025
  
• Pages: 384
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Hardcover
  
• EAN/UPC: 9781665948678
  
• Dimensions: 209.6 X 139.7 X 35.6 mm | 446.8 g