Our Funny Love Story | Resistance #1

Our Funny Love Story | Resistance #1

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Our Funny Love Story | Resistance #1

Byrd Hayes

Our Funny Love Story | Resistance #1

$22.00
Sale price  $22.00 Regular price 

Paperback | Twig and Hwyl Books

  • Romance
  • Humor & comedy

An Achillean literary mystery set within the cutthroat world of Tokyo publishing, featuring exclusive illustrations and a sharp, danmei-esque edge.

A comedy of errors, until fate reveals its twisted sense of humor.

Kamada Eizo is a web novelist with a breezy front and a desperate core. Having landed a flagship fantasy serial with a Tokyo publisher, he's finally within reach of the life he craves-a life built on a foundation that could crumble at any moment.

Miyamoto Ran detests liars. A brusque, uncompromising editor, Ran is obsessed with a single prize: unearthing the lost work of an author who vanished eight years ago. Securing Eizo's success is merely the means to an end.

They are polar opposites, bound together by a misdelivered package and a mutual talent for barbed one-upmanship bordering on playground tactics until a high-stakes deadline forces an uneasy truce. Yet, as they draw closer, Ran begins to see through Eizo's mask, sensing that the fragile connection they share is built on carefully wrought artifice. But for two men who have had the story of their lives once stolen, how far will one go to win it back, even if it means silencing the other's voice?

This is Book 1 of a duet. While the banter is sharp (sometimes crude) and the tension is high, this volume focuses on the mystery and the slow-burn psychological connection. A HEA concludes the duet in Book 2, Or So We Say (late 2026). 

Tropes & Themes
  • Workplace romance
  • Rivals to lovers
  • Slow burn romance
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About the Author:

Byrd Koto is an ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) author of genre-blending mysteries with queer yearning and humor.

Her stories center on psychological realism in Asian-based societies, where her characters explore relationships, identity, desire, and loss across the worlds they inhabit. Born and raised in Singapore, she has an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the City University of Hong Kong. Due to the long hiatus since graduation, her MFA-isms have left her. Or so she thinks.

Our Funny Love Story is her debut novel.

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