If thereās one thing that might get my dad, a retired math teacher, to visit Toronto and have a real conversation with me for the first time in seventeen years, itās a big nerdy Pi Day party. And hopefully this partyāand seeing the tech company I built from nothingāwill finally be enough to impress him and make him forgive me for everything I did when I was a teenager.
But itās got to be a really great party.
Thatās where Sarah Winters comes in. She owns Happy As Pie, a sweet and savory pie shop, and wants to get into catering. She makes an amazing lamb-rosemary pie, cherry pie, lemon-lime tartā¦you get the idea. Sheāll provide the food and help me plan the party, nothing more. No matter how much time we spend together, Iām not going to fall in love with her.
At least, thatās what I tell myselfā¦
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Jackie Lau writes soft and steamy romances with Asian characters and lots of food. The Baldwin Village series is set in a Toronto neighborhood, and each book may be read as a standalone.
Book 0.5: One Bed for Christmas
Book 1: The Ultimate Pi Day Party
Book 2: Ice Cream Lover
Book 3: Man vs. Durian
KEYWORDS: interracial romance, foodie romance, bakery, pie, Pi Day, 3.14, Asian hero, CEO, small business owner, rom-com, romantic comedy, contemporary romance, steamy romance, big city romance, Toronto, Canadian romance, happy ending
Jackie Lau decided she wanted to be a writer when she was in grade two, sometime between writing āThe Heart That Got Lostā and āThe Land of Shapes.ā She later studied engineering and worked as a geophysicist before turning to writing romance novels.
Jackie lives in Toronto with her husband, and despite living in Canada her whole life, she hates winter. When sheās not writing, she enjoys gelato, gourmet donuts, cooking, hiking, and reading on the balcony when itās raining.