Love is real in the town of Grimbaud, and Fallon Dupree has dreamed of attending high school there for years. After all, generations of Duprees have successfully followed the (one hundred per cent accurate!) love fortunes from Zita's famous Love Charms Shop to happily marry their high-school sweethearts. It's a tradition. So she is both stunned and devastated when her fortune states that she will NEVER find true love.

But Fallon isn't the only student with a terrible love fortune, and a rebellion is brewing. Fallon is determined to take control of her own fate - even if it means working with a notorious heartbreaker like Sebastian.

Will Fallon and Sebastian ever be able to defy fate and fall in love?

Debut-novelist Kimberly Karalius's charming romance, chosen by readers, writers and publishers for the first list in the new Swoon Reads imprint, will carry you away on a magical adventure full of heartbreak, hope and happy-ever-afters!

This book is part of a book series called Swoon Series .

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 368 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Pan Macmillan .

Kimberly Karalius holds an MFA in fiction from the University of South Florida and has been sharing stories on Figment. com with a strong following of enthusiastic readers since the site's conception. Although Kimberly lives in sunny Florida, she prefers to stay indoors and sometimes buys a scarf in the hope of snow. She loves watching really old cartoons and silent films. Being in Florida certainly has one big perk: going to Disney World. Which she does. Frequently. Love Fortunes and Other Disasters is her debut novel.