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I had a really great time talking to Jasmine Guillory about her latest novel called Party of Two.

Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of five romance novels, including the wedding date and the proposal, which was a Reese's book club pick. Her work has appeared in O, the Oprah Magazine Real Simple, and Cosmopolitan. She currently lives in Oakland, California. Welcome, Jasmine. Thank you so much for coming on Moms. Don't have time to read books. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. I have to say I listened to your book, which I don't always do, but I've been getting more into audiobooks. And I was going on a run, and I was listening to all these descriptions of like desserts and pies and cakes. And I was like, oh my god, I don't even think I should run anymore. I wanted to just go right to the nearest bakery and forget the exercise. Both things are great. My most important question that I have to start this with, was there actually a bakery in L.A. that had a cake that was this good that you had in mind when you wrote this? Because if so, I have to get there. No, but there are a lot of takes that I have had in mind that are that good. And so I sort of based all of my cake knowledge on cakes that I've either baked or had in my life. And so I put those in the book. Okay. Because I was ready to like text you, not that I have your name. And be like, I have to get to this bakery. The pie place in L.A. is real, though. It is. Yes, yes. My favorite cakes in L.A. are from Susie cakes. Have you had those cakes? Yes, they have them in the Bay Area as well. Oh, okay. Well, anyway, now that we've gotten that out of the way. So, congrats at the time of our talking your book just came out the day before yesterday. So that's really exciting.

Very exciting. Would you mind just telling listeners what this book is about, please?

It's called Party 2. It's about, it's a romance. It's about a Liam Monroe who moves to L.A.

At the very beginning of the book, she's just left New York and she's starting her own law practice in

Los Angeles with one of her best friends. And at the hotel bar, early in her time in L.A.,

she gets into a conversation with a charming stranger. She's a little suspicious of him because he's

maybe a little too charming. But they chat for a while. She goes back to her room and she turns on the

news and realizes that the guy that she'd been talking to was the senator from California. And then

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