Spotlight & Giveaway: The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

Posted May 31st, 2021 by in Blog, Spotlight / 40 comments

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Christina Lauren’s new release: The Soulmate Equation

 

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The New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners returns with a witty and effervescent novel about what happens when two people with everything on the line are thrown together by science—or is it fate?

 

Please share your favorite scene from the book:

I love this scene between Jess and River because literally nothing is more fun that two people who’ve gotten off on the wrong foot. At this point they’ve only really interacted twice before: at their mutual local coffee shop (where until recently they only knew each other by their respective orders: Flat White and Americano), and then at River’s place of business. It was during this fateful meeting that Jess overheard River refer to her as entirely average. Wince! River is already on Jess’s shit list, but when he steals her parking space—double wince!—it’s ON.

Jess could already see the elevators on the other side of the glass doors. She just might make it . . .
And who was standing at the elevator but River Peña? Jess watched him reach forward, pressing the button.
The light above it blinked on, the doors slid open. He took a step forward, and Jess clutched her laptop to her chest, breaking into a sprint.
“Hold it, please!”
Turning, he glanced over his shoulder and then disappeared into the elevator.
“Motherfucker!” Jess mumbled.
Jennings Grocery headquarters was only three floors up, so instead of waiting, she took the stairs. Two at a time. Visibly out of breath when she jogged from the stairwell into the hallway, Jess immediately collided with a brick wall of a man. For the record, he smelled amazing. It was infuriating.
“Careful,” he murmured, eyes on his phone as he stepped around her, continuing down the hall.
But Jess had reached the boiling point: “Americano!”
Hesitating only briefly, he turned. His dark hair fell over one eye and he brushed it aside. “I’m sorry?”
“Apology not accepted. You took my parking spot.”
“I took your—?”
“And you didn’t hold the elevator,” she said. “I’m running late, you saw me, and you didn’t bother to hold the door.”
“I didn’t see you.” He let out a short, incredulous laugh. “Maybe you should leave a little earlier next time.”
“Wow. You really are an asshole.”
He frowned, studying her. “Do we know each other?”
“Are you kidding?” She pointed to her chest. “Twiggs? Spit in a vial? Entirely average? Any of that ring a bell?”
Comprehension was a weather front that moved across his face. Surprise, recognition, embarrassment. “I . . .” His eyes flickered over her and then down the hall as if there might be reinforcements coming at any moment. “You were . . . completely unrecognizable. I didn’t know it was you.”
For the life of her, Jess couldn’t figure out if that was a sick burn or a backhanded compliment. “I’m sorry, I don’t recall your name, Ms. . . . ?” he asked evenly.
“You’ve never known it.” And there was the look that delighted her—the one that said he was barely tolerating the conversation.
Breaking eye contact, he finally glanced down at his watch. “You said something about running late?”
Shit!
Jess pushed past him, jogging ten feet down the hall to Suite 303, the offices of Jennings Grocery.

Excerpt. ©Christina Lauren. Posted by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
 
 

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About the book:

Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Raised by her grandparents—who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno—Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable letting anyone in. After all, her father’s never been around, her hard-partying mother disappeared when she was six, and her ex decided he wasn’t “father material” before Juno was even born. Jess holds her loved ones close, but working constantly to stay afloat is hard…and lonely.

But then Jess hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new DNA-based matchmaking company that’s predicted to change dating forever. Finding a soulmate through DNA? The reliability of numbers: This Jess understands.

At least she thought she did, until her test shows an unheard-of 98% compatibility with another subject in the database: GeneticAlly’s founder, Dr. River Peña. This is one number she can’t wrap her head around, because she already knows Dr. Peña. The stuck-up, stubborn man is without a doubt not her soulmate. But GeneticAlly has a proposition: Get to know him and we’ll pay you. Jess—who is barely making ends meet—is in no position to turn it down, despite her skepticism about the project and her dislike for River. As the pair are dragged from one event to the next as the “Diamond” pairing that could make GeneticAlly a mint in stock prices, Jess begins to realize that there might be more to the scientist—and the science behind a soulmate—than she thought.

Funny, warm, and full of heart, The Soulmate Equation proves that the delicate balance between fate and choice can never be calculated.
 
 

Meet the Author:

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times, USA TODAY, and #1 internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Dating You / Hating You, Autoboyography, Love and Other Words, Roomies, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, My Favorite Half-Night Stand, and The Unhoneymooners. You can find them online at ChristinaLaurenBooks.com, @ChristinaLauren on Instagram, or @ChristinaLauren on Twitter.
 
 
 

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40 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren”

  3. Mary Preston

    No, I think that we are free to make our own choices, for good or ill.

  11. Pamela Conway

    I don’t know about fate but do believe if something is meant to be it will happen.

  16. Pammie R.

    No. I believe in soul mates, but the thought that every choice we make has been preordained is silly IMHO. That would mean our choices mean nothing. I also believe in multiple universes where each choice made leads to a different world.