New York Times bestselling author Tia Williams returns with an intensely romantic, deliciously sexy tale about a woman searching for her handsome seatmate on a European flight—and the unexpected places her hunt for love leads her.

Sasha Cruz knows types. As a booked-and-busy casting agent, she’s always casting — at happy hour, the post office, the grocery store, everywhere. She’s all about finding the perfect person to slot into the perfect role. What she doesn’t do, however, are relationships. Too much energy, not enough time. Men find her intimidating, and she likes it that way.

But when Sasha’s seated next to a mysterious, broodingly handsome Italian man on the way to a work trip in Paris, sparks fly – but they miss the chance to exchange contact information. Now, convinced that she’s lost out on her soulmate, Sasha is on a manhunt to find Seat F.

Sasha enlists her work friend for help in the search, but when she accidentally emails the entire global company, colleagues around the world begin looking for Seat F, too – with some finding love along the way. Meanwhile, Sasha takes matters into her own hands, hiring a smoldering detective who complicates matters in unforeseen ways.

I always know I’m in for a good time when I pick up a Tia Williams book, and this one absolutely delivered.

Sasha is a casting agent who’s always got her eyes open for the next best talent. She can’t help herself. She’s always on, always casting–except for when it comes to her dating life. After a stalking incident that left her frazzled, she’s decided that getting that close to people is just too much for her anxiety. Until a work trip puts her on a flight to Paris seated beside a brooding, gorgeous Italian stranger, and for a few hours something actually clicks between them (surprising the hell out of Sasha). The problem is neither of them thinks to swap numbers before they land, and once she’s off that plane, Sasha becomes convinced she just let her soulmate disappear into an airport crowd. She recruits a coworker to help track him down, but a mass email sent by mistake turns her personal search into a company-wide obsession, with employees across multiple countries suddenly hunting for the same stranger, some of them tripping into their own love stories along the way. When Sasha decides to hire a private investigator from her past to help speed things up, his involvement ends up steering her plans in a direction she wasn’t expecting.

I absolutely fell for the characters in this book. They were extremely likable and believable. I loved the balance between comedy and romance throughout, and the spice was there in just the right amount to tie everything together without ever feeling gratuitous. Sasha is incredibly easy to root for from the very beginning, and Dane is just unbearably hot. Can someone get me a gay version of him, please? By about the halfway point, it became pretty clear exactly how everything was going to wrap up, but that never bothered me. It was obvious almost immediately that Sasha and Dane needed to be together (forget the hot stranger on the plane), and I loved watching them figure that out. This is a rom-com, and those familiar beats are to be expected. I was having too much fun with Sasha and Dane to care about the predictability. Their stories were compelling and didn’t feel like a “by the numbers” rom-com, mostly because they felt like fully fleshed-out characters.

This is exactly the kind of book you want on a lazy day when you just want to be entertained. If you love Tia Williams already, or you’re new to her and looking for a fun, sexy rom-com with both heart and humor, this is absolutely worth picking up.

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