Lily

By Jason Christopher

At two in the morning in Seattle, Jax opens a livestream and finds someone he can't forget.

Jax is an American poet trying to build a life beyond his criminal past. Lily is an accounting student in Chongqing, China, livestreaming to help pay the rent while her family plans her future: a respectable career, a suitable husband, and very little room for her own choices.

What begins with digital roses grows into private messages, imperfect translations, shared jokes, and poems. Thousands of miles apart, they begin telling each other things they struggle to say to anyone else.

But falling for someone through a screen is only the beginning. Jax's past and strained finances stand between him and a plane ticket. Lily's family has another man in mind Jax, a Seattle poet with a criminal past, falls for Lily, a student and livestreamer in Chongqing whose family has already planned her future. Through imperfect translations, private messages, and poetry, their connection becomes a love neither expected. But distance, money, and family pressure stand between them. Raw, funny, and heartfelt, LILY follows two people fighting for a chance to be together. Book One of the LILY trilogy; ends on a cliffhanger.and expectations she has spent her life trying to meet.

To give their relationship a chance, Lily will have to claim her own future. Jax will have to find a way to meet her in it.

LILY is a raw, funny, heartfelt contemporary romance about language, longing, and the difficult choices behind an unexpected connection.

Book One of the LILY trilogy. Ends on a cliffhanger.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HNVLH3DM
• ISBN13: 9798237976175
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Jason Christopher
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"