Call Me Maybe

Vera has spent three hours on hold. Her website is broken, and a business expo she cannot afford to miss is coming up. When a customer service representative named Cal finally picks up, he turns out to be helpful, unhurried and a little awkward. He even orders her takeout while the two of them work through the site together.

The call ends with their numbers swapped, and the book carries on in texts, voicemails and DMs between New York City and New Jersey. The whole romance is told through that back-and-forth, so the reader gets the flirting, the daily absurdities and the crossed wires as they happen.

A friendship forms first, before either of them is ready to say what it has turned into. This is a contemporary romantic comedy with a light, funny tone, and the first book in the Love Lines series.

It began in 2020 as an Audible Original, written during the pandemic as a feel-good comedy and performed by Luci Christian and Neil Hellegers. Print and ebook editions came later, along with two more Love Lines books. The question running through it is whether anyone can fall in love with a person they have only heard.