The Mating Game: A new romance novel from the British Women's Chess Champion

by Jovanka Houska, James Essinger

Overview

Meet Ivana ('call me Vanny') Jones, a sexy, beautiful, warm-hearted professional chess-player. She has a problem: she's only attracted to guys who can beat her... so what's she to do when a chess amateur, the Russian billionaire Boris Bogolyubov, proposes marriage?

Not only that, but as Vanny tries to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a chess grandmaster, she develops a crush on Norwegian sex-god Sven while also falling for a stunning and adoring Frenchwoman. Meanwhile, Vanny's hoping a revolutionary new drug treatment will save her best friend Charlotte's life.

Set in London, Monaco, Budapest, Helsinki, Odessa, New York... and Leicester, this sparkily written, passionate, emotional and entertaining novel will rock your boat... even if you've never shouted'Checkmate!'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783019823
Publisher:	The Conrad Press
Publication date:	11/23/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jovanka Houska is the current British Women's Chess Champion, an international chess master and one of the world's leading women chess-players. She has won many international tournaments and is a prolific author of books about chess. She also loves travelling to remote islands, yoga, gardening, and enjoys many of the things Vanny likes. James Essinger is a club-strength chess-player and a writer. Ada's Algorithm, his biography of computer pioneer Ada Lovelace, has been published in the UK and the US and in a Spanish edition, and is to be filmed. He's never lost at chess to Jovanka, but only because he's too scared to play her.