Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie

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Illustrated cover of Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie by Jackie Lau. Blue background with red polka dots of different sizes. East Asian man in argyle sweater vest is sitting on the largest of these dots, and he's holding a phone. Cat is beside him. Woman is sitting on a slice of cherry pie. She has a book open on her lap and is glancing in the man's direction.

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Mark Chan this. Mark Chan that.

Writer and barista Emily Hung is tired of hearing about the great Mark Chan, the son of her parents’ friends. You’d think he single-handedly stopped climate change and ended child poverty from the way her mother raves about him. But in reality, he’s just a boring, sweater-vest-wearing engineer, and when they’re forced together at Emily’s sister’s wedding, it’s obvious he thinks he’s too good for her.

But now that Emily is her family’s last single daughter, her mother is fixated on getting her married and she has her sights on Mark. There’s only one solution, clearly: convince Mark to be in a fake relationship with her long enough to put an end to her mom’s meddling. He reluctantly agrees.

Unfortunately, lying isn’t enough. Family friends keep popping up at their supposed dates—including a bubble tea shop and cake-decorating class—so they’ll have to spend more time together to make their relationship look real. With each fake date, though, Emily realizes that Mark’s not quite what she assumed and maybe that argyle sweater isn’t so ugly after all…

Release date: May 7, 2024

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