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A modern love story. She got his grandmother’s number. He never stopped texting it.

The Story

At 2:14 on a Sunday morning, Nora Vale’s phone lights up with a message meant for someone else. Hi Abuela. It’s Sunday. I made your caldo today and it was wrong again.

Nora is 22, works the counter at an Oakland record shop and makes music she has never played for anyone. Eli is a line cook who has texted his late grandmother’s number every Sunday for more than a year. When Nora finally writes back, a wrong number turns into a friendship, a song and a love that has to survive nine time zones.

  • A story told in texts and chapters: real message threads woven through the book.

  • Two voices: chapters alternate between Nora and Eli.

  • Music and food as memory: a lost lullaby, a pot of caldo, and a song built from a grandmother’s hum.

  • Oakland to Berlin: a record shop on Telegraph, Lake Merritt at sunset, a studio in Neukölln.

Reading Experience

  • Length: 14 chapters, about 14,700 words (78 illustrated pages)

  • Reading time: about 1.5 hours

  • Genre: contemporary romance, grief and healing

  • Content note: grief after the death of a grandparent, a painful breakup, and long-distance loneliness. Tender, funny, and ends with hope.

  • Bonus: The Sunday Playlist (14 fictional songs, one per chapter) and a note from the author

Perfect For Readers Who Love

  • Stories that start with a wrong number or a stranger’s message

  • Romance with heart, humor and a good cry

  • Music-lover characters

  • Short reads you can finish in one evening

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What You Get

  • The complete illustrated novella, with text-message threads

  • PDF, EPUB and Kindle-ready EPUB

  • Instant download, DRM-free

  • Also available in Spanish: Si te llega esto

Why This Story Matters

This book is for anyone carrying someone they’ve lost: the number you can’t delete, the recipe you can’t get right. Send the text, even if no one will answer.

Hi. It’s Sunday. Download your copy.