Jennifer Iacopelli to Serve Up ‘Recreation, Set, Match’ (Unique)

Get able to hit the courts this summer time, romance readers!

PEOPLE can completely reveal the quilt of Game, Set, Match by Jennifer Iacopelli, forthcoming from Requited in early 2026.

The novel facilities on three girls coaching on the elite Outer Banks Tennis Academy in North Carolina. Recreation, Set, Match focuses on Penny Harrison, 21, who has her eyes set on the Grand Slam in Paris. The rising star is able to win, till she learns that tennis professional Alex Russell — the person who broke her coronary heart — is now a coach on the academy, in accordance with the ebook’s description.

Penny turns to Jasmine Randazzo and Indiana Gaffney — two of the academy’s different up-and-comers — for assist (to not point out some much-needed distraction from their very own love lives). However because the Grand Slam nears, Penny finds that she and Alex along with his “irresistible attraction” simply can’t appear to steer clear of each other.

The ebook is a revamped version of Iacopelli’s 2016 YA ebook of the identical title. This new model has gotten a full makeover in and out, together with an version with sprayed web page edges. The second ebook within the sequence shall be revealed in summer time 2026.

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“Recreation, Set, Match is about three younger girls of their early 20s who’re going through the identical points that so many cope with at that age: residing on their very own for the primary time, their first critical romantic relationships and, terrifyingly, attempting to determine what they really need out of life,” the writer tells PEOPLE of the brand new ebook.

“However for Penny, Indy and Jasmine, it is all made extra sophisticated as a result of they’re elite tennis gamers out to show they belong on the professional tour,” she provides. “They’re fierce rivals, unapologetically bold, but additionally at a particularly susceptible time when one false transfer may derail their desires perpetually.”

Iacopelli notes that Recreation, Set, Match contains a few of her favourite romance tropes, like compelled proximity and enemies-to-lovers. However the story can also be an vital one for the writer.

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“Nearly precisely 14 years in the past at the moment, I used to be laid off from my first job out of grad college. To say I used to be devastated is past an understatement,” she says. “However they are saying every little thing occurs for a motive and so I did what Penny does: I refocused my energies on one thing optimistic, one thing I’ve at all times dreamed about. I wrote a ebook. I’m so thrilled Recreation, Set, Match has discovered a house with Requited as part of their inaugural listing.”

Iacopelli can also be the writer of the 2022 novel Discovering Her Edge, set to be tailored right into a Netflix sequence in 2026.

Recreation, Set, Match shall be revealed on Feb. 3, 2026 and is on the market now for preorder, wherever books are offered.