Wild Life
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
They're walking on the wild side…
The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister’s life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn’t working anymore. When a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in the hands of a very distracting—and disarmingly handsome—visitor, Zoey jumps at the chance to follow him home to retrieve it.
Davy Hsieh’s rugged island estate is no manicured suburban park. His plan is simple: establish a legitimate animal sanctuary and embrace life as a hermit to make up for a sketchy past. Zoey invading his fortress of solitude should not, under any circumstances, be a romantic development.
And yet it’s the single most invigorating week of their lives…when they're able to set their many differences aside and embrace it. Stranded amid all manner of flora and fauna—including a semidomesticated cougar called Baby—Davy and Zoey first have to survive the island. Then they'll need to take a leap of faith, maybe even trusting in each other, to save it.
"An absolutely charming opposites attract story that will have you swooning for Davy, feeling for Zoey, and swearing to stay away from geese." —Lily Chu, author of The Stand-In and The Comeback
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Wei (House Rules) puts a modern, gender-swapped spin on the 1938 film Bringing Up Baby in this zany rom-com. Zoey Fong has always obsessively stuck to the Plan: finish medical school and dedicate herself to researching a cure for the bone cancer that nearly killed her little sister. Her life's thrown into chaos, however, when she meets handsome, wealthy, and whimsical Davy Hsieh, who comes into her university lab hoping to find someone who can help him open a wildlife sanctuary on his private island. Zoey shoos him away, but Davy accidentally leaves with her precious sample slide in his pocket. Things take a sharp turn when the slide somehow ends up on the cargo ship leaving for Davy's island off the coast of Vancouver. Zoey insists on traveling there with Davy at once—despite worrying that her undeniable attraction to him could derail her Plan. The characters' frequent sexual musings (mid-conversation, Davy "found himself wondering about her underwear, probably also practical, a plain covering for something extravagant and beautiful") are as over the top as everything else and can be jarring at first, but Wei balances their relationship with delightfully wacky comedic scenes. This whirlwind opposites-attract romance offers plenty to enjoy.
