Love & Other Curses

Sammy, sixteen, spends his summer in small-town New York falling in love with a trans boy, spending time with his drag queen friends, and dealing with family issues.
&;I&;m pretty sure I&;m the only guy in my school who can replace a faulty kick-down switch and also create the perfect smoky eye.&;The Weyward family has been haunted by a curse for generations&;if a Weyward falls in love before their seventeenth birthday, the person they love dies.Sam doesn&;t plan to fall for anyone in the weeks before his birthday. He&;ll spend his time working at the Eezy-Freeze with his dad; cooking up some midsummer magic with his grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother (the Grands); and experimenting with drag with the help of the queens at the Shangri-La, the local gay club.But when a new guy comes to town, Sam finds himself in trouble when they strike up a friendship that might be way more than that.As Sam&;s birthday approaches and he still hasn&;t quite fallen in love, the curse seems to get more powerful and less specific about who it targets.A mysterious girl Sam talks to on the phone late at night and a woman he&;s only seen in a dream might have the answers he&;s been looking for&;but time is running out to save the people he cares about.