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    For This 'Party Of Two', Distance Isn't The Only Bump On The Road

    Jasmine Guillory's latest starts with a meet-cute; L.A. lawyer Olivia Monroe runs into U.S. Senator Max Powell in a hotel bar. But they're divided by more than distance: Olivia is black, Max is white.
    by Lulu Garcia-Navarro Jun 21, 2020 3 minutes
    Source: Berkley

    Olivia Monroe has just moved to Los Angeles to open her own law firm.

    Max Powell is a U.S. Senator who usually spends his weeks in D.C.

    After a meet-cute at a hotel bar, they begin a casual, weekends-only long-distance fling. Or is it more? That's the setup for novelist Jasmine Guillory's new romance Party of Two. And it has some timely themes — Olivia is black, Max is white.

    "Race plays out in their relationship in the different ways they view the world and the different ways the world has impacted them," Guillory

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