Almost Perfect - Paperback

AVAILABLE on December 1, 2026

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One fake date. Two real connections. A Christmas Eve that changes everything.

Sweet potato pie cooling on a windowsill. Donny Hathaway on the stereo. A dinner table where everyone talks and no one says a thing. Snow falling over Lake Erie. A phone lighting up at midnight with two names on the screen.

Avery Thornton built the perfect dating app for Black professionals. When her sister's secret meddling leads her to a magnetic chef at a Cleveland restaurant, she discovers the kind of spark no algorithm could predict. Then her own app matches her—at a 98.7% compatibility score—with a warm, disarming pediatrician who might actually be her perfect match. As the holiday season closes in, with its family dinners that expose old wounds, and a Christmas Eve that changes everything, Avery has to answer the one question her data can't solve: Does she trust the algorithm she created, or the connection she never saw coming?

Her sister has a secret. Her app has a mind of its own. And the holidays are coming for everyone. What if you could code your way out of heartbreak?

Smart, sensory, and irresistibly romantic, Almost Perfect is a story about the distance between designing love and actually letting it in.

Tropes:

Black Love / Romance

No Spice / Closed Door Romance

Love Triangle (two good men)

Holiday Romance

Family Drama

Matchmaking Sisters

Slow Burn