Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Lunar Love | 2023 | Buy |
| Red String Theory | 2024 | Buy |
| Yin Yang Love Song | 2025 | Buy |
Lauren Kung Jessen is a contemporary romance author whose novels center on Chinese American culture and the tension between tradition and modern life. Her debut, Lunar Love (2023), follows a woman who runs a matchmaking service based on Chinese astrology and finds herself competing with a rival app developer. The book blends romantic comedy with an honest look at cultural identity and family expectations.
Red String Theory (2024) draws on the Chinese legend of the red thread of fate, and Yin Yang Love Song (2025) continues her pattern of building romances around specific cultural concepts. Jessen’s books stand out in the contemporary romance space for the way they ground their love stories in real cultural practices rather than using them as surface-level decoration.