Significant Other Machine: A Romantic Comedy About Anxiety, AI, and Love

By Adam Eccles

Love is messy. Algorithms are not.

Sam Oldfield prefers systems that behave predictably.
Computers do. People don't.

At twenty-seven, Sam runs her own IT business, untangles other people's digital disasters, and keeps her own life running smoothly enough. Relationships, however, remain stubbornly resistant to logic.

Then her mother, fuelled by martinis and good intentions, buys her a Wi-Fi-enabled sex toy for her birthday.

Naturally, Sam hacks it.

What she ends up with is something unexpectedly compelling: a digital companion who listens, remembers, and always knows the right thing to say. It's attentive, reassuring, and refreshingly uncomplicated. For the first time, intimacy feels calm. Contained. Safe.

Almost too safe.

When a very real attraction at work starts to complicate matters, Sam begins to wonder whether turning her emotional life into a system was such a clever idea after all.

Because real love is unpredictable, awkward, and risky.
And algorithms are designed to remove uncertainty.

Significant Other Machine is a smart, sexy romantic comedy about modern loneliness, emotional shortcuts, and the frightening bravery required to let another human see the messy parts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GGZ67S7Z
• ISBN13: 9798243588867
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.0"