First published 2025
Fa Mulan runs the day-to-day operations of her father's hedge fund and has learned to outwork every finance bro in the building. When Fa Zhou falls ill during a critical acquisition, she steps in to keep the deal alive. The target is a family-owned whiskey company, old-fashioned and proud of it, run by a tight-knit clan that will only do business with Fa Zhou himself. Since all their contact has been over email, Mulan figures she can manage one quick impersonation. She signs her father's name and keeps the correspondence going. Then the family requests a face-to-face meeting. Then they invite her to spend a full week at their ranch. Suddenly Mulan is wrangling cattle, throwing axes, and sitting through butchering demonstrations while convincing a skeptical extended family that she is the powerful CEO they have been negotiating with for months. Leading the family operation is Shang, dedicated and overworked, and exactly the wrong person for Mulan to develop feelings for. The longer she stays, the harder it gets to keep her cover and keep her composure. Jesse Q. Sutanto reimagines Mulan as a contemporary romance about family pressure, mistaken identity, and what it costs to make the people you love proud.
Genres: adaptations, contemporary, contemporary-romance, family-drama, romantic-comedy
Vibes: charming, heartwarming, lighthearted, romantic-tension, witty
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating, fish-out-of-water, forced-proximity, mistaken-identity
Setting: hedge-fund, ranch, whiskey-company
Period: contemporary
278 pages · Paperback · Hyperion Avenue