you x me
please pre-order from your favourite independent bookstore.
YOU x ME is a series of meet-cutes and modern entanglements: Noura swipes right on Luna with a little help from her group-chat, Maryam and Nilou fall for each other between shared playlists, while Paz and Ale reminisce about the sweat-soaked dance floor of their youth. Set in cosmopolitan settings from Los Angeles to Montreal, each chapter can be read as an independent love story, though the book has a unifying thread of characters. This hot and hopeful QBIPOC contemporary romance offers escape, self-discovery, and a dose of glamor; fans of “Sex and the City,” “The L-Word, Generation Q,” and “Harlem” will be at home in these pages.
As Maya Angelou encourages, this book calls readers to “have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
tour
The book tour is currently being planned. As dates develop they will be updated here, on Instagram and in the newsletter. If you would like to co-create an event don’t hesitate to reach out.
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2026 | 6 - 8 PM | MONTREAL | L'Euguélionne
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2026 | 7 - 9 PM | TORONTO | HOPELESS ROMANTIC
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2026 | 1 - 3 PM | OTTAWA | Perfect Books
DETAILS TO COME | BROOKLYN
DETAILS TO COME | DC
you x me conversations
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media
Publisher Weekly’s: Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview
Publisher’s Weekly’s starred review of Someplace Generous named “Luna x Noura” which is a chapter in You x Me.
about the author
Ayla Vejdani (she/her) is a storyteller, holder of space and curator of experience. Her current projects include a QTBIPOC contemporary romance series. Raised and educated all over the world, she has a master’s in human rights, is an inclusive leadership consultant, and relationship coach. She speaks four languages and laughs in all. Ayla is a queer Iranian-Canadian from Tkaronto/Toronto living in Tiohtia:ke/Montréal, raising her two young children. She is an insatiably creative, hopeful romantic who believes in magic.