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Lauren Kung JessenRomance · Contemporary Romance
Lunar Love
Olivia Huang Christenson, called Liv, is about to take over her grandmother's matchmaking business in Los Angeles. She is thrilled and frightened in equal measure, and she has built her working life on a belief in the traditional Chinese zodiac as a way of pairing people. Her Pó Po has run things that way for years.
Then a new dating app turns that approach into a matter of "animal attraction." Liv is furious. The app belongs to Bennett O'Brien, the city's most eligible bachelor, and she sees it as a threat to her family's legacy. He is also infuriatingly handsome, and he thinks traditions exist to be broken.
Liv has spent her career finding matches for other people and has no plan to fall for anyone herself. As their two businesses compete head to head, she and Bennett strike a bargain: each will find a match for the other, and whoever falls in love loses. Bennett is skilled at taking other people's business ideas, which makes Liv wonder what else he might take.
This is a contemporary romantic comedy built on enemies-to-lovers rivalry, with Chinese astrology running through the matchmaking. The tone is light and sweet, driven by banter and a bet that both leads have reason to lose.