For attendees to the Ashland Public Library Event with Lily Chu on June 1, the author will be signing bookplates for every book ordered through Aesop's Fable.
Beloved author Lily Chu brings the charm in a clever, funny, and beautifully written contemporary romance about a fake heiress, a real secret scandal, and one sizzling summer she’ll never forget.
Event planner Valerie Peng never planned on spending her summer sipping champagne at a lakefront estate, dodging suspicious billionaires, or pretending to be anyone’s long-lost daughter. But when a very public, deeply mortifying mishap lands her in hot water—and her career in a hot mess—her uber-wealthy older client makes her an offer she can’t refuse: come to his glamorous summer home and pose as the long-lost daughter he believes his conniving family has hidden from him. In exchange? Time away from her actual life…and the chance to help uncover a long-buried secret.
But Cinderella needs some magic for this big of a makeover. Enter Nico Hever, her client’s maddeningly perfect executive assistant. He’s organized, meticulous, impossible to read, and infuriatingly handsome. But even though he claims this is a capital-M Mistake, Nico’s the only one who knows the truth about Valerie…and the only person she can trust to have her back. As they navigate a world of eccentric matriarchs, class divides, and private family feuds, their chemistry is as undeniable as it is ill-timed.
Caught between pretending to belong and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, Valerie’s summer is about to get far more complicated than she ever planned.
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Cosmo Reads (July 7, 2026)
- ISBN-13: 978-1728291055