Danielle Rippengill

Children’s Fiction Designer and Visiting Lecturer








The Love Interest


A swoony, speculative and entirely electric YA debut with a humorous and satirical take on the conventions of the superhero-verse.

Seventeen-year-old Jenna Ray has just been saved by the world's newest superhero, Blaze. And, in the eyes of the public, that means one thing: Jenna Ray has been cast as the Love Interest.

No. Not happening. Not if Jenna has anything to say about it (even if Blaze is actually quite sweet and cute).

But her plans to defy the HPA (the Heroics and Power Authority) and turn down this new role are thwarted when the Villains begin to take an interest in her and offer a life-changing proposition; become Blaze's Love Interest, while avoiding catching feelings for him, to uncover the HPA's secret plans and find her missing mum.

To make matters even more complicated, just as Jenna starts to embrace her new-found career, she discovers she might be more on the side of the superheroes than she ever imagined …


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Author
Helen Comerford

Editors
Carla Hutchinson, Katie Ager and Jessica Bellman

Illustrator
Sarah Madden

Designer
Danielle Rippengill

Age
Young Adult

Format
198mm x 129mm, 384pp; paperback

Publishers
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK, June 2024)










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