Vibe Check: An Opposites Attract Sapphic Romance

She built a machine to replace human touch. She didn’t expect her test subject to replace the machine.

Sloane Lin prefers circuits to people. People are messy, loud, and unpredictable. Machines are safe. As a brilliant but touch-starved engineer, Sloane has spent the last year developing "Project Hestia"—a haptic feedback suit designed to simulate the comfort of a hug without the terrifying vulnerability of asking for one.

There’s just one problem: She needs a human test subject to calibrate the sensors.

Enter Junie Alvarez. A chaotic, crystal-loving yoga instructor who lives down the hall, Junie is everything Sloane avoids. She’s loud, she has no concept of personal space, and she smells like patchouli and optimism. But Junie is also broke, facing eviction, and desperate enough to agree to Sloane’s ridiculous proposal: strictly clinical, paid "cuddle sessions" to generate data.

It was supposed to be a business transaction. But as the testing sessions blur the line between science and intimacy, Sloane’s controlled world begins to glitch. Junie isn’t just a variable in an equation; she’s warm, real, and the only person who has ever looked at Sloane without pity.

When a critical expo threatens to expose Sloane’s secret project to her judgmental family, she has to choose: retreat behind her glass walls, or admit that the only "vibe" she needs is the one she can’t simulate.

Vibe Check is a steamy, grumpy-sunshine F/F romance featuring a touch-starved engineer, a ray-of-sunshine yoga teacher, and a slow burn that will melt your circuits.