Lunar Love

This sweet, enemies-to-lovers debut rom-com filled with Chinese astrology will undoubtedly prove to be a perfect match with readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Sarah Adams.

Always a matchmaker, never a match...
Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she learns that a new dating app has made her Pó Po’s traditional Chinese zodiac approach all about “animal attraction,” her emotions skew more toward furious-slash-outraged. Especially when L.A.’s most-eligible bachelor Bennett O’Brien is behind the app that could destroy her family’s legacy . . .

            Liv knows better than to fall for any guy, let alone an infuriatingly handsome one who believes that traditions are meant to be broken. As the two businesses go head to head, Bennett and Liv make a deal: they’ll find a match for each other—and whoever falls in love loses. But Liv is dealing with someone who’s already adept at stealing business ideas . . . so what’s stopping him from stealing her heart too?

Lauren Kung Jessen is a half Chinese-American writer with a fondness for witty, flirtatious dialogue, and making food with too many steps. From culinary school to the world of Big Tech, Lauren cares about creating experiences that make people feel something. She spends her days as a user experience content designer and writer of love stories with mixed race characters at the forefront. She also runs a food and film blog, A Dash of Cinema, where she makes the food you see in movies and is a contributor to the Rom Com Fest blog. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband (who she met thanks to fate—read: the algorithms of online dating), two cats and a dog.