A Match Made in Paraíso

Full-time overthinker Nick Morgan is the brain behind America’s best dating app.

(Sort of. He’s just the guy who exterminates bugs and glitches.)

When a new competitor threatens their top spot by promising love beyond the algorithm with curated dates, predefined prompts, and steamy challenges, Nick is considered for a promotion to build something better…

except he has no romantic experience to draw ideas from.

Enter lifelong best friend and roommate (and actual seasoned dater) Renan Moraes.

A serial-hugger and soccer coach raised between two countries, he’s long forgotten what home feels like — until Nick joins him and his boisterous Brazilian family for the holidays for the first time, and Renan’s two worlds collide.

He doesn’t hesitate when Nick asks him to go on a series of date trials so he can spy on the competitor’s app.

After all, it’s Renan’s best shot at getting his workaholic friend to slow down, go outside, and fall a little in love with Brazil.

(Just Brazil, obviously. The probability of their platonic marriage of sorts becoming something more after nineteen years is 0.01%.)

As the five app-curated dates unfold across languid beach days and sticky summer nights between Christmas and the New Year’s, Nick is (almost) sure the temptation to strip away both boundaries and swim trunks is an illusion manufactured by the app.

Renan, however, has always known exactly how he feels.

The souvenir they bring home is an unlabeled new relationship.

But when they’re caught between Nick’s once-in-a-career opportunity and Renan’s reawakened dream of moving back to Brazil, they must confront whether the trip was the final chapter of a codependent friendship meant to be outgrown…

or if their long-overdue endgame is worth playing for.