The Stranger I Wasn't Looking For: A Novel

What if the worst night of your life accidentally led you to the person you were meant to find?Luna Hartwell's life falls apart in a single evening. She loses her job, discovers that her boyfriend has been cheating on her, and ends the night sitting alone in a stairwell with nowhere to turn.Desperate for someone to talk to, Luna sends a message to her best friend-but she sends it to the wrong number.Instead of silence, she receives a reply from a complete stranger.He doesn't know her. She doesn't know him. They don't even exchange their names. But somehow, this mysterious stranger knows exactly what to say when everyone else has failed her.What begins as one accidental conversation slowly becomes something neither of them expected. Night after night, Luna and Ryan begin sharing their fears, dreams, regrets, and secrets while hiding behind the safety of anonymity.They make rules: no real names, no photos, no personal details, and no looking each other up.But feelings don't follow rules.As their carefully separated worlds begin to overlap, Luna and Ryan must decide whether the connection they found by accident is worth risking everything to discover who is really on the other side of the screen.Sometimes the wrong number isn't a mistake. Sometimes it's the beginning of the right story.