Encore!

Author: Miles Toriko Burks

Interest age: from c 14 years

Published on 18 June 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (Electric Monkey) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 256 pages
229 x 152mm | 540g

With over 23 million views on Webtoon, comes the first stunning and heartmelting volume of Encore. Perfect for fans of Heartstopper, Red, White & Royal Blue and Bloom.

Former childhood best friends Clayton Noguchi and Aron Santos are forced to partner up in their senior year theatre class. Where once they were thick as thieves, now the two sit on opposite ends of the high school social spectrum, as a theatre nerd and the popular jock.

But despite all that has changed around and between them, they still can't help but gravitate towards one another, and soon enough the boys are tentatively rekindling their friendship with improv, movie nights, late facetime conversations… and their growing feelings for one another.

Warm your heart this summer with a fun and gentle story about breaking up and making up, coming out, and what it means to be true to yourself.