When Constellations Collide

by Kayla Maria

Not the official blurb:
An upcoming forbidden love romance between a driven scholarship student and the wealthiest student at a prestigious academy.

Unknown Binding

About the author

Kayla Maria is a storyteller who has been writing stories, shows, and songs since she was a child. She pivoted to writing novels, and her heartfelt, character-driven YA romances explore growing up, falling in love, and finding yourself, pairing romance with mental health representation that makes readers feel seen.
Written when she was a teenager already living with chronic illness and mental health struggles, her debut series, The Summer We Turned Thirteen, was an unexpected hit on Wattpad, inspiring over half a million reads, hundreds of fan art pieces, and a place in nearly fifty middle schools across the USA. Readers fell in love with its nostalgic, summery charm.
Her follow-up, How To Get The Girl, is a fake-dating, enemies-to-lovers story that took off on Bookstagram in 2023, amassing millions of views, thousands of TBR adds and ARC signups, and hundreds of fan edits before it was ever published. Her other upcoming stories, including Crosse My Heart and Ever If You Wish, have gathered millions of combined views as well.
Devastatingly, writing How To Get The Girl proved to be the most personal and painful journey of her creative life. Her beloved brother passed away while she was working on it, and the book became inseparable from that loss. In the aftermath, her mental health and chronic illness worsened, making it far harder to finish the story than she ever planned. She stepped away from the public eye to give herself space to heal.
When she returned in 2026, early readers of the current draft met it with high praise. But returning also made something clear: she still loves her books, yet novels had taken the center of a creative life that has always belonged to cinema, television, and music.
She is now stepping away from social media and pausing book writing to return to those original dreams. Her books remain an important part of her story: How To Get The Girl is still being developed as a full duology, and The Summer We Turned Thirteen has a re-release planned. She hopes that returning to her first loves will reignite her passion for novel writing when she comes back to it.
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