by Cara Bastone
First published 2025
The Date-in-a-Box website has crashed days before the big business expo, and the founder is stuck on hold for three hours with tech support. Her inner rage builds as precious launch time slips away. Then Cal picks up the phone. He's not the robotic voice she expected but a real person who actually knows how to fix her glitched website. He's awkward in a charming way, and before she knows it, she's flirting with a stranger over a customer service line. Hours pass as Cal troubleshoots her site. They order takeout while still connected, swap phone numbers, and start texting daily. Voice messages follow, then DMs. Two people who've never met face to face begin falling for each other one conversation at a time. She starts wondering if love at first talk is possible, because she's falling hard for someone she knows only through his voice.
Genres: romance, chick-lit, contemporary-romance, new-adult-romance
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intimate
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers
216 pages · Paperback · Headline Eternal