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The Stand-Up Groomsman by Jackie Lau

A steamy, opposites-attract romantic comedy

A steamy, opposites-attract romantic comedy

A cartoon man wearing a suit holds a microphone. A cartoon woman wearing a pink dress holds a bouquet of flowers.
(Berkley)

They say to never meet your heroes, but when Vivian Liao's roommate gets engaged to her favorite actor's costar, she has no choice but to come face-to-face with Melvin Lee again. He's just as funny and handsome as he is on-screenbut thinks she is a snob and a sellout. It's none of his business how she chooses to live her life, no matter how charismatic he is.


Mel is used to charming audiences as an actor and stand-up comedian but can't connect to Vivian. She's a smart, talented artistwhich is why he thinks she's wasting her life as a corporate finance drone. The only thing uniting them is their goal for the wedding to go off without a hitch.


As they collaborate on wedding cake and karaoke parties, Mel realizes he might have seriously misjudged this bridesmaid, while Vivian discovers the best man might just be as dazzling off-screen as he is on. With the wedding underway, maybe more than one happily ever after is in the future.

(From Berkley)

Jackie Lau is a Toronto-based author of over a dozen romantic comedies, includingDonut Fall in Love, the Holidays with the Wongs series and theThere's Only One Bed at Christmasnovella anthology. She went to school for engineering and worked as a geophysicist before writing romance novels.