Melissa Yi: 27 books

Three best friends. One belly dancing class. Every Monday, on penalty of death or cheesecake. Kate Zhao, the corporate lawyer, faces down her best friend and first lover who dumped her when they were both 17. Now that he's all grown up, he wants to make it up to her. Hailey St. Laurent...

When Oona's husband asks for an open marriage, she kicks him to the curb and makes a list. A list of the guys not taken. The first guy she really loved. The guy who morphed into Dr. McDreamy. And the smokin' yoga teacher with abs of titanium. The List of all the guys she coulda-woulda-shoulda....

Ivy Appleford is not a diva.  Most librarians aren't. But for once in her life, she's breaking all the rules. Take Tariq Zahid.  In fact, that's the main problem:  she wants to take him.  He's tall, dark, and handsome, but off-limits in so many ways.  First of all, she just...

Dead Man Drowning Magic? Dr. Hope Sze steers clear of magic. But when “Elvis the Escape King” chains and nails himself inside a coffin and lowers himself into Montreal’s St. Lawrence River, he can’t break free. So Hope restarts his heart and saves his life. But now Elvis...

Student Body After facing down three murderers, Dr. Hope Sze comes face-to-face with a sociopath who escapes the criminal justice system. For the first time, in this 10,000-word novella, that sociopath gets to speak. Read Student Body after the novel Terminally Ill, or face the consequences. Bonus...

Two doctors. One killer. One woman in labour. A killer infiltrates the obstetrics ward of a Montreal hospital just before Christmas, taking one pregnant woman and one resident doctor hostage at gunpoint. Dr. Hope Sze struggles to deliver her patient's baby with blood on the floor and...

A story of three women, linked by blood and diamonds. The first, a Ph.D. who loves her research more than any living thing. The second, a Montreal woman who knows her bulging, aching abdomen must conceal a terrible secret. The third, resident doctor Hope Sze, who, in struggling to save her patient,...

Jimmy can talk to animals. No big deal, probably part of his Mohawk heritage. He's been doing it for the past six years, and now he's just another 14-year-old too smart for school, a.k.a. jail. But one day, Coyote tells him, "You have to go to school." She won't take no for an answer....

A Mohawk man who will do anything to make his two sons love him again. Three women on two different continents, spanning three different generations, linked only by blood and diamonds. A janitor plots revenge against her boss. A man who loves his wife so much,...

Chris would do anything for his hot, young wife. Even yoga. Even yoga at sunrise, on a Montreal ship, to celebrate spring solstice. He steps on board, braced for incense and some uncomfortable body twists, unaware of the true mastermind awaiting him.

Wolf ice killed Leila’s best friend. Now it’s stealing Leila’s self-control. Leila Fan picks the perfect haven for her pack of Montreal werewolves, a campground by an Ontario river that seems perfectly peaceful—until someone murders her best friend. Leila joins forces with her...

“What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams.” ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin How do you solve a problem like your mother? A ferocious flash fiction story, now a finalist for the Derringer Award. Accompanied...

A Killer Flight With No Way Out When Dr. Hope Sze flies to Los Angeles to reunite with her soul mate, John Tucker, she expects Botoxed blondes with Brazilian wax jobs, not terror at 35,000 feet in the air. Yet on their way home, with 1000 miles to go and nowhere to land, she and Dr....