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The Quiet Gambit: A Clean YA Chess Club Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Sankulahub
Published: Mar 25 2026
Pages: 364
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
When a guarded chess-club captain and a quiet transfer player fight to save their school club, every match draws them closer and forces them to face the rooms, risks, and feelings they can no longer hide.
A school chess club on probation is the last place Daphne wants more attention.
She has spent too long recovering from one public loss that made every room feel sharper, louder, and harder to trust. Then Emmett walks into the chess room with a calm she does not believe and a way of seeing through her that feels almost unfair.
He is new, talented, and exactly the player the club needs if they want to survive the semester.
He is also dangerous in the quietest possible way.
As pressure builds around the club, Daphne and Emmett are pushed into practice rooms, public matches, school scrutiny, and the kind of silence that starts to mean more than either of them planned. But when old wounds, unwanted attention, and a rival from Emmett's past threaten to define the room before they do, staying steady becomes more than a game.
It becomes a choice.
Set in the charged world of school halls, rain-lit classrooms, and after-hours chess boards, The Quiet Gambit is a clean YA slow-burn romance about fear, trust, and the brave decision to stay where your heart is finally known.
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