21 New Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in December

Diana Ma's new YA series kicks off with the compulsively readable Heiress Apparently. When aspiring actress Gemma Huang heads to Beijing for a role, she quickly discovers she's a dead ringer for one of the city's most notorious socialites — and the reason she looks so much like a woman she's never met leads her to a royal secret her parents have gone to great lengths to hide from her.

Out Dec. 1