Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover ofĀ From Beijing, With LoveĀ by Bei Lin, a contemporary gay romance releasing September 29th from Alcove Press! Here’s the story:
Daniel Wuās life in Amsterdam is far from spontaneous. When his boyfriend dumps him on the same day a work mishap lands him on leave, he breaks all his rules by impulsively escaping to Beijing to visit his best friend Poppy.
Thereās just one hitchāPoppy isnāt there.
Alone in the foreign city his late father grew up in, Daniel wants nothing more than to fly home early. After all, running away is what he does best. But then Poppy signs him up for a tour of the Great Wall.
Enter Yang Li, the PhD student moonlighting as a tour guide. A transplant to Beijing, Yang has never felt at home in the bustling capitalāor with himself. Cynical and disciplined, he isnāt the least impressed when Daniel shows up to their tour hours late. The tour is painful in more ways than one, but at least itās a one-time ordeal.
Then life pushes them together again and again, until time spent together over stunning sights and mind-blowing eats feels less like vacation and more like finally finding home.
From Beijing, to Xiāan, to Tokyo, will they confront their own ghostsāpast and presentāto find their happily-ever-after?
And here’s the gorgeous cover by DeĢbora Islas!
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Bei Lin is a Chinese Canadian writer based in Vancouver. She has lived on three continents and visited over thirty countries. Travel and food are her passions, along with giving her characters their well-deserved happily ever after. When sheās not writing, sheās daydreaming about her next trip and eating chocolate cake.
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Ally NorthĀ (she/her) is a queer writer who has been writing fiction her entire life. During the pandemic, she began writing sapphic romance out of pure chaotic boredom and discovered an untried knack for the genre. She lives in America, but occasionally she lives in England. When she isnāt writing, Ally can be found cooking with obscene amounts of garlic, traveling someplace new, rescuing animals, and feeding Jean-Claude, the wild possum who lives under her shed.