An Evening with Abigail Hing Wen and Florence Simmons

***Please note: This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event. Can't make the event or want your copy early?

Now an instant national bestseller and an Amazon Book of the Month, from the author of the Netflix hit,"Love in Taipei." Tan Lee finds himself embroiled in an unusual love triangle, all while trying to defuse a heist in this novel by New York Times bestseller Abigail Hing Wen.
After a magical kiss at Prom, best friends Tan Lee and Winter Woo agree to cool it off, a plan that goes awry when their parents jointly head off to Hawaii and leave Tan and Winter to babysit Tan's sister Sana together. If that isn't complicated enough, Tan's ex-girlfriend from Shanghai arrives on his doorstep with money stolen from her billionaire father and thugs on her heels.
Tan soon finds himself on the run through the San Francisco Bay Area, trying to out-manuever international hackers and protect his friends, family and sister—and his own heart.

Abigail Hing Wen is the New York Times best selling author of multiple novels for young people, including Loveboat, Taipei, which has been adapted as the movie Love in Taipei, now on Netflix. Abigail served as an executive producer and on set during production. Her novel Kisses, Codes and Conspiracies, a thriller and romantic comedy novel is an instant National Best Seller, USA Today Best Seller and Amazon Editor’s Pick for YA Book of the Month.Abigail is directing her first short film, a prequel to her unannounced middle grade novel THE VALE (coming September 2025), about an inventor family building an AI virtual reality world. Abigail's writings draw on her expansive experience working in law, venture capital and artificial intelligence and frequent travels. She holds degrees from Harvard, Columbia and Vermont College of Fine Arts. "With a knack for trying and succeeding at new things," according to Forbes, Abigail has been described by Pop Culturist as “one of the voices of her generation.”

Florence Simmons co-founded the book review blog "Book Nerds Across America" in 2010. The blog remains active and has expanded to social media, where you can still find her and her friends sharing book reviews, recaps of bookish events, and more. She is a book reviews editor for School Library Journal and an author; her debut novel, The Summer Scrapbook, will be published in the spring of 2026 by Lerner Publishing Group.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States