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Cara Bastone
Cara Bastone writes romantic comedies that often feature charming meet-cutes and witty banter. Readers enjoy her stories like "Ready or Not" and "Promise Me Sunshine" for their warmth and humor.
Love at First Psych
Marigold does not believe in love at first sight, and has a semester's worth of data to prove it. Robbie Moravian believes in it so completely that he collects meet-cute stories the way other people collect grievances. Their psychology professor pairs them for a project on precisely that question, and neither of them gets a vote.
The assignment sends them out to interview couples about how their relationships began, which means long hours together, a great many bad jokes, and a slow erosion of Marigold's certainty that Robbie is a fool.
Cara Bastone wrote Love at First Psych as an Audible Original produced as a full-cast audio play, with Santino Fontana and Stephanie Einstein leading a large ensemble. It exists as performance rather than page, and the banter is built for it.
A relentlessly cheerful undergrad who believes in love at first sight.
Robbie's skeptical project partner, unconvinced by the whole premise.