UPDATE: This event will now take place at BookPeople! Previous ticket-purchasers were notified via email on June 3rd about the venue change. If you did not receive this email, please contact online@bookpeople.com with your ticket details. All tickets to this event are still valid!

Please welcome Tia Williams and Naina Kumar to celebrate The Missed Connection!

This event is ticketed. All attendees must have purchased a ticket for entrance.

• Start time: 6:00 P.M.
• Run time: 45-60 minutes, followed by a photo line.
• Location: The Second Floor of BookPeople

The author will be pre-signing copies of the book and be available for photos after the speaking portion of the event.

• In order to join the photo line, you must have purchased a ticket (which includes a copy of the book).
• For high volume events, post-talk photo lines can become very long. For such events, we recommend arriving and checking in to the event early as that will get you into an earlier group.

About the book:

New York Times bestselling author Tia Williams returns with an intensely romantic, deliciously sexy tale about a woman searching for her handsome seatmate on a European flight—and the unexpected places her hunt for love leads her.

Sasha Cruz knows types. As a booked-and-busy casting agent, she’s always casting—at happy hour, the grocery store, everywhere. She’s all about finding the perfect person to slot into the perfect role. What she doesn’t do, however, is relationships. Too much energy, not enough time.

On a flight to Paris for work, a chance encounter with her type changes everything. Sasha’s seated next to a broodingly attractive mystery man, and sparks fly—but they never exchange contact information. Convinced she’s lost out on her soulmate, Sasha emails her work friend for help, but accidentally writes to the entire company worldwide! The international manhunt to find Seat F begins.

Meanwhile Sasha takes matters into her own hands. She hires a smoldering detective she knew in another lifetime—who complicates matters in unforeseen (and irresistible) ways.

With a worldwide search underway, will love take flight for Sasha?

About the author:

Tia Williams is the bestselling author of The Accidental Diva, It Chicks, and The Perfect Find—now a Netflix film starring Gabrielle Union. Her novel, Seven Days in June, was an instant New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick. Her NAACP Image Award-nominated bestseller, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde, was named one of the year’s best romances by New York Times and Amazon. Her YA romcom, Audre & Bash are Just Friends, was an instant New York Times bestseller and GMA Book Club Pick. Her latest novel, The Missed Connection, releases on June 9, 2026. Tia lives with her family in Brooklyn.

About the moderator:

Naina Kumar is the USA Today bestselling author of Say You’ll Be Mine and Flirting with Disaster. A former civil rights lawyer, she now spends her days writing and reading about love. Her books have been featured in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, The Guardian, and elsewhere. She lives in Texas, and if she’s not at her desk writing her next book, she’s either taking her rowdy rescue dog on a walk or shopping at HEB.