Melissa Yin: 6 books

When Octavia Ling spots an ad for The Italian School for Assassins, she figures that it sounds like a crazy workout, better than pole dancing, and exactly the kind of nuttiness she craves for a birthday that ends in a zero. Except, when “V" lands in Florence, the other assassin students seem…awfully...

"Why don't you write about your mother? That's what I like when I read Amy Tan," suggested a friend. That was why I read Amy Tan too. Still, I resisted the suggestions until I wrote the Hope Sze medical thrillers and a version of my family snuck onto the pages. And now, wouldn't you know...

All Octavia “V” Ling wants for the holidays? Inner peace and a piece of the sizzling spy named Dario. Since gingerbread men will dance the cha cha before Dario swears his undying devotion, V jets off to Goa, India, ready to rock the handstands with a yogini named Raven. Only Raven...

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...