The Right Swipe
The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai, published in 2019, is the first book in the Modern Love series and a smart, sexy contemporary romance set in the cutthroat world of dating apps. Rhiannon Hunter is the CEO of Crush, a buzzy new dating platform that puts women in control. She is brilliant, ambitious, and fiercely guarded, with good reason. After surviving a toxic former boss whose harassment she has never publicly named, Rhiannon trusts almost no one. So when retired NFL star Samson Lima walks back into her life at a tech conference, looking to launch a competing app rooted in older-school romance, she has no intention of forgiving the man who ghosted her after a single perfect night together. Samson, for his part, has reasons of his own. He is grappling with grief, the long-term effects of football injuries, and a family history of CTE that he is only beginning to understand. As Rhiannon and Samson are forced to work together, their chemistry reignites and so do their secrets. Rai weaves serious threads, workplace abuse, mental health, the price of pro sports, into a romance that never sacrifices warmth or humor. The result is a love story that feels honest, modern, and earned.
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Rhiannon Hunter built her dating app Crush after a bad public breakup and runs it from a Los Angeles office. When she meets former pro football player Samson Lima at an industry conference, he turns out to be the man who ghosted her after one perfect night, and a rival app's new spokesperson.
Yes. The Right Swipe contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. Alisha Rai is known for steamy contemporary romance.
Yes. The Right Swipe contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. Alisha Rai is known for steamy contemporary romance.
Alisha Rai's Modern Love trilogy has three books: The Right Swipe, Girl Gone Viral, and First Comes Like. Each features a different couple in connected friend-group circles.
The Right Swipe was written by Alisha Rai, published in 2019 by Avon.
The Right Swipe is 201 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Right Swipe takes most readers 3 to 4 hours to finish.
The Right Swipe is a standalone novel by Alisha Rai, not part of a series.
The Right Swipe is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.