Out of Step, Into You

By Ciera Burch

"A perfectly angsty second-chance romance." --Dahlia Adler, award-winning author of Cool for the Summer and Home Field Advantage

Out of Step, into You is a sapphic contemporary romance following childhood friends turned cross-country team rivals who are forced to work together to win the state championship - for fans of Kelly Quindlen and Rachael Lippincott.

You can't outrun love.

Taylor and Marianna were each other's whole world - best friends, running partners, practically sisters - until Marianna moved away and Taylor promptly ghosted her. When the former best friends turned rivals end up on the same cross-country team three years later, everything is a competition... and a reminder of old feelings, as well as blossoming new ones.

Marianna runs because she's angry.The oldest child of a single mother, she knows all about responsibility - for her siblings, at her part-time job. She just has to stay focused and be faster than the past nipping at her heels if she wants to secure a new, brighter future. With or without Taylor.

Taylor runs to prove herself. The only child of a Divison 1 athlete, she's no stranger to high expectations. With enough effort, she knows she can immortalize herself with a state record and make her parents proud. Then, she can discover her own passion. She definitely doesn't have time to untangle her feelings towards Mari.

Can this pair figure out a way to work together before their past catches up with them?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374389152
• ISBN13: 9780374389154
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12