One of LGBTQ Reads's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025
It's spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein, recent divorcee, is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire and lust for a new life refuse to be contained. Rachel dips a toe in the online dating world, leading to park dates with younger men, flirtations with beautiful women, and actual, in-person sex. None of them, individually, are perfect, but what if one person could perfectly cater to all her emotional needs? Driven by this possibility, Rachel creates Frankie, the AI chatbot she programs with all the good parts of dating in middle age. But Rachel begins to realize that perhaps real life has more in store than she could ever program for herself.