But playing the role of an elegant movie star - and resisting Sam's charms - proves harder than Gracie bargained for. Turns out she's a dead ringer for the famous actress - who asks Gracie to be her stand-in. Gracie's world quickly turns on its head when one day a SUV carrying Chinese cinema's golden couple, Wei Fangli and Sam Yao, pulls up beside her. She put her knack for strong characterization and sense of place to work, devising the set-in-Toronto tale of Gracie Reed, who's just trying to hold it together after being fired by her overly "friendly" boss and dealing with being a caregiver for her aging mother. The Stand-In sprang from a nudge from her literary agent - but also from Chu's realization that the genre needed better representation of diversity in its characters and stories. Before writing her first rom-com book, Toronto author Lily Chu hadn't given much thought to writing romance novels.
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