{"id":17757,"date":"2024-05-12T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T20:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=17757"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:40:28","slug":"amy-lea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/amy-lea\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Lea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Amy Lea is a Canadian civil servant and romance writer who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Bodyguard Affair<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Berkley, 2025.
forthcoming Dec. 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Andi Zeigler lives a double life. By day, she\u2019s the no-nonsense, steadfast personal assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada\u2019s wife. By night, she slips out of her heels and writes romance novels under a top-secret pen name. But when her steamiest book, The Prime Minister & Me, unexpectedly becomes a bestseller, rumors of a real-life affair between her and the PM start swirling out of control.

Enter Nolan Crosby, the PM\u2019s new close protection officer (aka bodyguard) \u2013 and Andi\u2019s failed one-night stand from three years ago. Nolan\u2019s in town very temporarily to care for his mother, who\u2019s battling early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s. But when the scandal erupts, Andi ropes him into a fake-dating plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Catch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Berkley \/ Penguin Random House, 2024.
The Influencer Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In a last-ditch effort to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, Boston fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of Canada. The only thing scarier than nature itself? The burly and bearded bed-and-breakfast owner and fisherman, Evan Whaler\u2014who single-handedly disproves the theory that Canadians are \u201cnice.\u201d

After a boating accident lands Evan unconscious in the hospital, Mel is mistaken for his fianc\u00e9e by his welcoming yet quirky family, who are embroiled in a long-standing feud over the B&B. In a bold attempt to mend family fences, Mel agrees to fake their engagement for one week in exchange for Evan\u2019s help with her social media content.

Amid long hikes and campfire chats, reeling in their budding feelings for each other proves more difficult by the day. But is Mel willing to sacrifice her picture-perfect life in the city for a chance at a true, unfiltered love in the wild?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Exes and O’s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Berkley \/ Penguin Random House, 2023.
The Influencer Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Romance book connoisseur Tara Chen has had her heart broken ten times by ten different men\u2014all of whom dumped her because of her \u201cstage-five clinger\u201d tendencies. Nevertheless, Tara is determined to find The One. The only problem? Classic meet-cutes are dead, thanks to modern dating apps. So Tara decides to revisit her exes in hopes of securing her very own trope-worthy second-chance romance.
 
Boston firefighter Trevor Metcalfe will be the first to rush into a burning building but the last to rush into a relationship. Love just isn\u2019t his thing. When his new roommate Tara enlists him to help her reconnect with her exes, he reluctantly agrees. But Tara\u2019s journey is leading him to discover his own new chapter.
 
The more time they spend together, the more Tara realizes Trevor seems to be the only one who appreciates her authentic, dramatic self. To claim their happily ever after, can Tara and Trevor read between the lines of their growing connection?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Set on You<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Berkley \/ Penguin Random House, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym \u2013 her place of power and positivity.

Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. Sparks fly as these ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination. But after a series of escalating jabs, the last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparents\u2019 engagement party.

In the lead up to their grandparents\u2019 wedding, Crystal discovers there\u2019s a soft heart under Scott\u2019s muscled exterior. Bonding over family, fitness, and cheesy pick-up lines, they just might have found her swolemate. But when a photo of them goes viral, savage internet trolls put their budding relationship to the ultimate test of strength.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Something Like Fate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Skyscape\/Amazon Publishing, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For generations, the fortune-telling women in Lo Zhao-Jensen\u2019s family have foreseen The One\u2014the great loves of their lives\u2014before ever meeting them. Except for Lo, who has zero psychic abilities. Just memories of old rom-coms and a lot of poor judgment when it comes to love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Lo finally has the vision she\u2019s been waiting for, her delighted aunties are convinced she\u2019ll meet The One on her backpacking trip in Italy. Vero amore, here she comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along for the summer is Lo\u2019s best friend and confidant, Teller Owens, her opposite in every way. Upon arrival in Venice, Lo is saved from a runaway trolley by Caleb, a fellow backpacker. It\u2019s a meet-cute so swoony, it has to be fate. But with each destination, Lo\u2019s complicated feelings for Teller are becoming harder to ignore. From the cobblestone streets of Rome to the rocky cliffs of Amalfi, Lo begins to wonder if fate has other plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Woke Up Like This<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mindy’s Book Studio, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Planning the perfect prom is one last \u201cto do\u201d on ultra-organized Charlotte Wu\u2019s high school bucket list. So far, so good, if not for a decorating accident that sends Charlotte crash-landing off a ladder, face-first into her obnoxiously ripped archnemesis J. T. Renner. Worse? When Charlotte wakes up, she finds herself in an unfamiliar bed at thirty years old, with her bearded fianc\u00e9, Renner, by her side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Either they\u2019ve lost their minds or they\u2019ve been drop-kicked into adulthood, forever trapped in the thirty-year-old bodies of their future selves. With each other as their only constant, Charlotte and Renner discover all that\u2019s changed in the time they\u2019ve missed. Charlotte also learns there\u2019s more to Renner than irritating-jock charm, and that reaching the next milestone isn\u2019t as important as what happens in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navigating a series of adventures and a confounding new normal, Charlotte and Renner will do whatever it takes to find a way back to seventeen. But when\u2014and if\u2014they do, what then?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Amy Lea personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Penguin Random House<\/a>, owner of the Berkley imprint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amy Lea is a Canadian civil servant and romance writer who lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Fiction The Bodyguard Affair Berkley, 2025.forthcoming Dec. 2025 Publisher’s Synopsis Andi Zeigler lives a double life. By day, she\u2019s the no-nonsense, steadfast personal assistant to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17757"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20314,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17757\/revisions\/20314"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}