Mina’s life is going according to plan, she’s acing AP Calc and is perfectly content with her non-existant social life. Though only a high school junior, Mina knows time is an investment and she’s putting all her capital into academics. Oliver is ready to burn down his old life and start from scratch – complete with a new name and emancipation papers – in L.A. When the two are thrown together through circumstance and develop an unexpected connection, they discover how hard it is to keep the past in the past in Love and Other Sins by Emilia Ares [October 2021]. Oliver and Mina develop a strong bond as the threads of their old lives begin to unravel and they are forced to reckon with family history that violently refuses to remain in the past. Love and Other Sins is a moving story about what it means to be young and vulnerable in today’s society.