Confidentially Yours

When her therapy app accidentally sends Riley's private confessions to a random British expat - and his to her - what began as a glitch quickly evolves into the kind of intimacy that can only exist between strangers.

A slow-burn contemporary romance.

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When a company health initiative forces Riley Markle to download a trendy mental health app, she fills out the onboarding survey without much thought, expecting to get paired with a virtual gym buddy who'll send thumbs-up emojis twice a week.

Instead, she gets paired with Joe, a lonely British expat whose wellness concern of Compulsive Behaviors is flagged by the AI system as a perfect match for Riley.

Riley resolves to complete her month of check-ins and be done with it - until a glitch in the app sends both her and Joe's embarrassing therapy videos to each other instead of their therapist.

Soon, Riley and Joe are talking late into the night, exchanging thirst-trap videos of their weekend routines by day, and thinking about each other constantly. Both are smitten, both are broken, and neither of them knows how to do this without destroying each other.

The plan: Limit all communication to the app until after Day 30, then see where things go. But plans change.

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🏆 High Rankings:
#1 in LITERARY
#1 in QUICKREAD
#1 in NEWENGLAND
#1 in SHORTCHAPTERS (out of 38,000 stories)
#3 in EPISTOLARY

#87 in ROMCOM (out of 35,000 stories)
#147 in ROMANTIC (out of 86,000 stories)

Updated November 2025