Your Soulmail Is Attached: A Novel

by Joan F. Smith

What if everyone in the world found out who their soulmates are at the same time?
 
Olivia Adler’s life is a behind-the-scenes job she loves in a bustling newsroom, an engagement to golden-boy Wells, and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to create the documentary she’s always wanted to make.
 
Then one sleepless night, everything unravels.
One message on Wells’s phone shatters her engagement.
A second message—an anonymous global email quickly dubbed Soulmail—shakes the world.
 
Delivered to every individual’s inbox, Soulmail reveals the name and birthdate of your soulmate. Suddenly, love as we know it is rewritten overnight…and Olivia accidentally becomes the face of it all when she reports on the story live and goes viral.
 
With millions watching her every move, Olivia resolutely refuses to open her Soulmail. She’s not ready for fate to make her choices—especially not now. But when she crosses paths with her childhood best friend—the boy she loved and lost—everything she thought she knew about destiny, timing, and love comes into question.
 
Is true love written in the stars…or something we choose for ourselves?
 

Genres: Romance

352 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication April 14, 2026

Reviews

[Mal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the advanced reader copy

Olivia Adler's life is almost perfect: she's about to marry her wealthy fiance, she has a great best friend, and is hoping that one day she'll get a chance to produce the kinds of documentaries she went to college to study. But her life is turned upside down when she wakes up to find that her fiance has cheated on her and that she's been called into the TV news show that she writes for to fill in for the usual anchors because every adult in the world has received an email telling them who their soulmate is. In the months that follow, Olivia finds herself the new face of the "Soulmail" phenomenon, reconnects with a childhood friend, and has to figure out whether she can forgive her cheating fiance. All while choosing to not open her own Soulmail.

I thought this was a clever twist on the "everyone receives the same information across the world" subgenre of speculative fiction. If you're someone who enjoys romance stories and liked a book like THE MEASURE, I think you'll enjoy this.

Your Soulmail Is Attached comes out April 14, 2026

[Mandy Peterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Speculative fiction is one of my favorite genres. I love the ideas presented in this book. The blurb does an excellent job of summarizing and getting you excited to read it. Olivia is our main character, and we get to follow her through the best and worst moments of this experience, starting with the night before she receives her soulmail. I love Olivia's sudden thrust into the limelight and the sudden changes, fish-out-of water element. The overall plot is pretty satisfying. We have some mysteries at the end, opportunities that would be interesting to explore in the future, and yet I walked away feeling like I got the full story from Olivia's perspective. What made me mark this as three stars rather than higher is that I felt like it dragged on. 20% of the book felt like it could have been cut. However, this might be the author's storytelling style. So, amazing ideas and storyline, but the pacing wasn't my favorite.

[c · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review copy courtesy of MIRA through Edelweiss

This will be a great book club read for 2026, provoking lots of discussion, and the first few chapters were unputdownable as our heroine Olivia discovers her fiance is cheating on her just before the whole world receives mysterious messages listing their soulmates, which forces her job at daily news show to throw her into the anchor chair as the regular anchors and backups are unavailable or sick. Olivia's newfound celebrity brings her childhood best friend/lost love back in her life, and the book is semi juicy celebrity tale and complicated romance also. My one issue is there was alot of weird AI usage by her one love interest, who is a museum curator, which made little sense.

[Kimberly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Olivia is engaged, happy with her job, and looking forward to her wedding. But when everyone receives an email with their true soul-mate, everything changes. her career pivots, as does her relationship.

Some people find that their soul mate is
- not who they are married to
- someone not alive yet
- someone who already passed
- someone who just cheated on you
- your parent
- your best friend

The world struggles with their results as some people's lives are turned upside down, and others thrive because they always know.

This was a fun spin on the question of whether soul mates are real.

Thanks #netgalley and #joansmith for #yoursoulmateisattached

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this book. I loved the idea behind it. It was so unique. Like, what if we all got an email with our soulmate--what if it wasn't someone who was in our life yet--would it dictate our behavior? Would be seek out a new partner? This is such a great concept and gets you thinking about what makes a good match and how we move forward with information that we have. Would our lives change today if we knew what was to come tomorrow? This was well-written and I felt like I couldn't put it down (and stayed up way too late reading it).

Thank you for the ARC, Netgalley!

[Megan Martire · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you so much, Netgalley and Harliquin for this gifted copy.

The concept of this story is so unique and intriguing! Imagine — everyone in the world receives a letter or email revealing who their soulmate is. That premise alone is fascinating and instantly draws you in. I really enjoyed reading it, though I did find the writing a bit on the wordy side.

[Laura Namey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had the honor of reading, or inhaling, an advanced copy of this book. What a story, what a super star author. Besides the premise being so creative and propulsive, this story hums with pitch perfect dialogue and plenty of twists and turns. A forever favorite

[Kerri Satterlund · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting idea. It dragged a little here and there.

[The Word · Rating 5 out of 5]

loooooovvvvve thinking about this stuff. comparison to The Measure is it. fresh premise, almost genre bender