What if everyone in the world found out who their soulmates are at the same time?

Olivia Adler’s life is picture-perfect: a behind-the-scenes job she loves in a bustling Manhattan 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 on earth, Soulmail reveals the name and birthdate of their soulmates. Suddenly, love as the world knows it is rewritten overnight, and Olivia accidentally becomes the face of the phenomenon 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?

~Standalone~

This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.

Title:  Your Soulmail is Attached
Series:  Standalone
Author:  Joan F. Smith
Published:  April 14, 2026
Publisher:  MIRA/Harlequin Trade
My Rating:  4 stars

Your Soulmail is Attached is a standalone, speculative fiction novel with a fascinating premise… one that actually will have you pause and rethink what “you” define as a “soulmate”.

I believe everything you could possibly want to know before picking up this title is in the Cover Description… unless you want spoilers, which I try very hard not to do.  The idea that every adult person on the entire planet received an email at the exact same time is, frankly, kind of chilling.  Olivia had no idea that her world was about to be upended on two fronts in the wee hours of the morning.  A sleepless night left her awake when a message came in on her fiancé’s phone.  The scumbag is cheating on her!  And she’s seen the proof.  Moments later, an email comes in, one that she hasn’t opened, being distracted by a call from her boss at the newsroom telling her to get to the station… now. 

Life, as practically everyone on the planet has known it for eons, is changing with the release of those global emails.  And Olivia will end up as the face of this phenomenon, reporting on developments while steadfastly refusing to open her own.  A childhood friend (and a young love/crush) comes back into her life just as her cheating fiancé is trying to convince her to give them a second chance because he “has” read the soulmail, or so he says.

Your Soulmail is Attached is intriguing, a complete “what if” and “how would I react” kind of story.  While speculative fiction is not my first choice, and there is actually little romance in this story, the idea behind it fascinated me.  I enjoyed the story, although it left me with questions that remain unanswered.  Yet, I also understand why that would be possible in this type of story.  If there was ever a story that lingered long after the final page… for reasons that are not usual for me, then this one is it.  If you can set aside your knowledge of “reality” to accept a strange phenomenon that is handing your fate to you unasked, then you’d enjoy this one.

*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley, and I sincerely thank the author or publishing house for their trust. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*

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