Meant To Be · #5
Worth Fighting For
Laugh and swoon with the next book in Disney’s Meant to Be collection by bestselling and award-winning author Jesse Q. Sutanto, whose novel Dial A For Aunties Emily Henry called “Utterly clever, deeply funny, and altogether charming.”
Mulan's ready to get down to business. But when it comes to love, she hasn't got a clue.
As the right hand of her father’s private equity company, Fa Mulan knows what it takes to succeed as a woman in a man’s world: work twice as hard, be twice as smart, and burp twice as loud as any of the other finance bros she works with. So when her father unexpectedly falls ill in the middle of a critical acquisition, she is determined to see it through. There’s just one hitch: the family company in question is known for its ultra masculine whiskey brand, and the brood of old-fashioned aunts, uncles, and cousins who run it—lead by the dedicated but overworked Shang—will only trust Mulan’s father, Fa Zhou, with the future of their business.
Rather than fail the deal and her father, Mulan pretends she’s Fa Zhou. Since they’ve only corresponded over email, how hard could it be to keep things moving in his absence?
But the email leads to a face-to-face meeting, which leads to an invitation to a week long retreat at Shang’s family ranch. One meeting she can handle, but a whole week of cattle wrangling, axe-throwing, and learning proper butchering techniques, all while trying to convince Shang’s dubious family that this young woman is the powerful private equity CEO they’ve been negotiating with? Not so much—especially as she finds it harder and harder to ignore the undeniable spark between her and Shang.
Can she keep her head in the game and make her father proud, all while trying not to fall into a trough, or in love with Shang?
The series
In Worth Fighting For, the final entry in the Meant to Be romance anthology, Jesse Q. Sutanto reimagines the legend of Mulan through a sharply modern lens, one that trades swords for spreadsheets and battlefield deception for high-stakes corporate impersonation. The result is a story that doesn’t shout for attention but instead lingers with quiet force.
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Set in the unlikely meeting ground of a luxury ranch and the competitive world of finance, the novel follows a woman who steps into her brother’s identity to salvage her family’s future. What begins as a calculated risk unfolds into something much messier, a tug-of-war between obligation and desire, personal truth and cultural expectation. The tone is slyly funny one moment, then disarmingly sincere the next, echoing the author's signature blend of emotional depth and sharp observational wit.
Unlike many series where continuity ties the books together, Meant to Be is linked not by plot but by spirit, a reimagining of iconic fairy tales grounded in contemporary realities. In this final installment, the atmosphere is both intimate and charged, filled with stolen glances, mounting tension, and a love story that refuses to follow the rules.
While the series has flown just under the mainstream radar, Worth Fighting For stands out for how it handles identity, ambition, and the courage it takes to risk everything, not just for love but for the right to define your own story. It’s smart, culturally resonant, and quietly bold, offering readers something more than romance. It offers reckoning and reinvention.
For those drawn to character-driven stories with emotional grit, subtle humor, and themes of empowerment woven through romance, this tale delivers exactly what its title promises: something worth holding on to.
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