She vows to win Howl, to beat Neil one last time. Principal Meadows announces Neil as the class valedectorian, and so Rowan loses to Neil again! Our girl can’t catch a break. Rowan comes across her list of guide to high school success she wrote four years ago, and realizes she hasn’t accomplished anything from the list except one, to become the Westview class valedictorian. The senior class prepares on their last day including the game of Howl, a scavenger hunt with a twist across Seattle, and the assembly where the principal will announce the class valedictorian. Ever since, they’ve been outdoing each other from debates, pull-ups during gym class, SAT scores to college acceptance. Neil scoffed when Rowan got second place for picking a romance novel. Rowan came in second with her essay on Nora Roberts’ Vision in White.

Rowan narrates that their rivalry started during freshman year when Neil’s essay on The Great Gatsby won a schoolwide contest about a book that has impacted them the most. Enter Neil McNair, Rowan’s archnemesis since freshman year. She secretly reads and writes romance novels, loves vintage clothes, a fan of “sad music” and a vegan. The story is written in Rowan’s POV who is a smart, optimistic, competitive senior. Agent: Laura Bradford, Bradford Literary.Set in Seattle, Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon tells the story of two ultra-competitive, high school seniors, Rowan Roth and Neil McNair vying for the valedictorian spot at West View High School in a 24-hour timeline, which culminates with a scavenger hunt. She’s an aspiring writer, but she’s afraid to tell anyone-for one thing, her parents are children’s book authors for another, she wants to write romance, a genre that she sees as feminist in its focus on female desire but that is frequently dismissed as “trash.” Enemies turned lovers is an old romance trope, but in Solomon’s deft hands, this funny, tender, and romantic book is fresh and wholly satisfying. In Rowan and Neil, Solomon ( Our Year of Maybe) has created two complex, believable characters-word lover Neil has his future planned out, but his present is way more complicated than Rowan knows. Until, that is, the long night of Howl, when the two meet each other’s families, talk about the last four years, and even share a dance. But on the last day of school, there are only two competitions left: who will make valedictorian, and who will win Howl, a citywide senior class event, “part Assassin, part scavenger hunt.” Rowan thinks about Neil so much that her friends believe her obsessed, a notion that Rowan finds ridiculous.

A taunting text: they’re the two top students in the senior class, and sworn rivals. Every morning, Neil McNair awakens Rowan Roth with a text.

Today tonight and tomorrow