The Profile That Knew Me. An After Midnight Novel, #7

His first message referenced an obscure French philosopher she'd quoted on a dead Twitter thread three years ago. She thought it was fate. Wren Ashby is a freelance graphic designer in Portland, Oregon, who spends her days building visual worlds for other people's stories and her nights on a dating app called Kindred, searching for something real. When she matches with Theo Vane - a UX researcher with impeccable taste, disarming honesty, and an almost unsettling ability to understand her - she feels, for the first time since her last devastating relationship, like she's been truly seen.
Theo knows about the obscure band she loved in college. He reads the same books she rates five stars. He remembers the things she says before she remembers saying them. He listens with a stillness that feels like devotion. But the cracks begin to show. His digital profiles were all created weeks before they matched. His apartment is staged with rented furniture and unread books pulled from her Goodreads shelf.
And when Wren finds his laptop open one night, she discovers the truth: a spreadsheet cataloging six women by their initials, each one profiled down to her core psychological wound, her attachment style, her trust threshold - and a step-by-step plan for making her fall in love. Wren is tab number six. As she spirals deeper into the investigation - tracking down the women who came before her, mapping the architecture of Theo's method - she leans on Nessa, a journalist she befriended at her regular coffee shop.
Nessa is sharp, empathetic, and always one step ahead. She seems to understand Wren at a frequency no one else can reach. But Nessa has a secret of her own. And when the truth finally surfaces, Wren will discover that the most dangerous lie isn't the one told by the man who engineered her love story - it's the one told by the woman who engineered her trust. Set against the rain-soaked streets of Portland, The Profile That Knew Me is a layered psychological thriller about digital surveillance, manufactured intimacy, and the terrifying vulnerability of living in a world where everything you've ever posted, liked, or shared can be weaponized by someone who wants you to love them.