Harlequin is proud to support The Festival of Literary Diversity, Canada’s leading festival for diverse voices and storytellers. Running April 28 to May 5, The FOLD offers virtual and in-person programming featuring dozens of authors from Canada and around the world.
In partnership with The FOLD, Harlequin is excited to present a romance high tea featuring three Harlequin authors – Opal Wei, Taj McCoy, and Alina Khawaja.
Find out more about these talented authors and their books below. And if you register for The FOLD, check out Harlequin’s virtual booth for information about our romance publishing program and fiction imprints.
For more information, visit www.thefoldcanada.org.
Opal Wei: Wild Life
Zoey Fong’s plan is to find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister’s life. But when a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in Davy Hsieh’s hands at the island animal sanctuary he’s establishing, they’re stranded and it turns out to be the single most invigorating week of their lives.
Opal Wei writes warm, witty contemporary romance featuring emotionally complex multicultural characters and their rambunctious families. Her books (written under pen name Ruby Lang) have been featured in NPR, Buzzfeed, and Vulture. Find Opal at opalwei.com.
Taj McCoy: The Good Ones Are Taken
When Maggie’s college best friend admits he’s in love with her, she’ll have to decide whether it’s worth giving up something good, for something that could be amazing in this laugh out loud friends to lovers romcom.
Law grad, literary agent and author, Taj McCoy, is committed to championing plus-sized Black love stories and characters with a strong sense of sisterhood and familial bonds.
Alina Khawaja: Maya’s Laws of Love
Maya Mirza’s unlucky-in-love past seems to be turning around when she ends up in an arranged marriage to the on-paper perfect man. But as she heads to her wedding in Pakistan, she finally meets the man of her dreams—and what could be more unlucky than that?
Alina Khawaja is an author from Ontario, Canada, with a never-ending love-hate relationship with the snow. A graduate of University of Toronto, she is pursuing a Master’s degree at Toronto Metropolitan University. This is Alina’s debut novel.
