One Number Off

One wrong digit. Two women. The love story nobody saw coming.

Boston, 2005. Jake O'Neill finally meets a woman worth crossing a crowded bar for. She writes her number on a napkin with a dying pen, and by morning he's typing it into his phone, one careful digit at a time.

He gets one of them wrong.

The number belongs to Molly Fitzgerald, who has no memory of any bar and no reason to answer a stranger. But she does. And for two weeks the texts fly between New York and Boston, midnight confessions, half-finished novels, almost-marriages, until Jake boards a train to surprise the woman he's falling for, and Molly discovers the truth she can't unsend:

The woman Jake actually met that night is Rachael Torres. Her former best friend. The one whose phone number is one digit from her own, because they bought their phones together, back when they were inseparable. Back before the lie that destroyed everything.

Now Rachael has spent three weeks waiting for a call that went to the wrong woman. Molly is falling for a man who was never meant for her. And Jake is about to learn that the number was only the first thing he got wrong.

He'll have to choose. But the choice that changes everything isn't his to make.

One Number Off is a big-hearted love story about the accidents that find us, the lies we tell to keep what we've stolen, and the one relationship that just might survive them both: two women rebuilding a friendship from wreckage, one Saturday-morning pancake at a time.

For readers of Rainbow Rowell's Attachments, Josie Silver, and Beth O'Leary. Set in a world of flip phones, napkin numbers, and messages that couldn't be unsent, when one wrong digit could rewrite three lives.