About This Book
Jess Davis has built a carefully controlled life around data, statistics, and the daughter she's raising alone — no room for romantic risk, no margin for error. When a DNA-based matchmaking startup promises to reduce love to something measurable, Jess is skeptical but intrigued enough to try. What she doesn't expect is a 98% compatibility match with the company's own founder, a result so statistically improbable it shouldn't exist. The push-pull between what the numbers say and what two complicated people actually feel makes for a romance with genuine tension — because the stakes aren't just will-they-won't-they, but whether Jess can trust something as unquantifiable as her own heart.
Christina Lauren (the pen name of writing partners Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings) bring their signature warm, witty dual-perspective structure to this one, giving both Jess and River full interiority rather than letting either become a foil for the other. The prose is breezy without being shallow, and the central concept — science versus feeling — earns its metaphor rather than leaning on it as a gimmick. Jess's daughter Bijou and the San Diego coffee-shop setting add texture that keeps the story grounded when the romantic stakes climb.
