She gives me an incredulous look and mouths, What’s going on? Nandini walks through the doorway and stops in her tracks, seeing Ace next to me. “Why are you sitting here?” I ask, glancing around for my friends. I open and close my mouth, unsure what to say, and he raises an eyebrow at me. My head snaps up and I see Ace sitting next to me, spinning a wrapped lollipop between his fingers. “Don’t start with the marriage counselor thing again,” I say without looking up. I’m writing down the date when someone drops into the seat beside me. I take my seat in the back corner and pull out my notebook.

Pre-order Counting Down With You on Amazon, B&N, Indiebound, Book Depository, or add it on Goodreads!Īnd now the exciting part! Behold the book cover for Counting Down With You:Ĭover direction: Gigi Lau | Cover artist: Samya ArifĮxclusive Excerpt: Counting Down With YouĪs usual, I’m the first to arrive to English. T-minus twenty-eight days until everything returns to normal-but what if Karina no longer wants it to?Ĭounting Down With You will be releasing on May 4th 2021! Though Karina agrees, she can’t help but start counting down the days until her parents come back. But Ace Clyde does everything right-he brings her coffee in the mornings, impresses her friends without trying, and even promises to buy her a dozen books (a week) if she goes along with his fake-dating facade. Pretending to date him? Out of the question. Tutoring the school’s resident bad boy was already crossing a line. Instead, one simple lie unravels everything. When her parents go abroad to Bangladesh for four weeks, Karina expects some peace and quiet. Keep her head down, get through high school without a fuss, and follow her parents’ rules-even if it means sacrificing her dreams. How do you make one month last a lifetime? In this sparkling and romantic YA debut, a reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school’s resident bad boy. Here is the summary from publisher, Inkyard Press: (And friends, I’ve read a few passages of Tashie’s writing – and you are absolutely not ready for Tashie’s wonderful and charming writing!)

It’s also a story about family and the difficulties of independence, and has chaotic sisterly friendships that we all love.

When Tashie visited us in May for Asian Heritage Month and talked about how writing Counting Down With You was a love letter to her Bangladeshi culture and identity, I knew that Counting Down With You would be a book to keep on my radar.įast forward to just a month ago, when Tashie asked me whether I would help her reveal the cover for her debut, I screamed in excitement – I believe in this book so much and am so excited to read it, and it is such an honour to show you all the book cover for Counting Down With You and share an exclusive excerpt from the book!Ĭounting Down With You is a young adult contemporary romance featuring a Bangladeshi-Muslim teen who gets roped into a fake dating façade with her ‘bad boy’ classmate.

The Quiet Pond is excited and honoured to share with you all the exclusive cover reveal and exclusive excerpt for Counting Down With You by Tashie Bhuiyan!

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