A dazzling debut novel—at once a charming romance and a moving coming-of-age story—about what happens when a fourteen-year-old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of Playboy but then discovers she is his computer-loving soulmate.

Billy Marvin’s first love was a c...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Last One at the Wedding—a sweet coming-of-age story about young love that's an "endearing, full embrace of the late 1980s" (USA TODAY) and a delightful blend of humor, heart, and the universal experience of growing up. Fourteen-year-old Billy M...

A love letter to the 1980s and to nerds everywhere?The Impossible Fortress will make you remember what it feels like to love someone?or something?for the first time.

Billy Marvin's first love was his computer.

Then he met Mary Zelinsky.

Do you remember your first love?
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It's 1987. Billy Marvin, the tallest boy in ninth grade, has just witnessed history.

Wheel of Fortune presenter Vanna White is on the cover of Playboy.

Billy and his friends, Alf and Clark, know that if they can get hold of the magazine, their world will change. For ever.

But...