Lockdown Love (or Love in the Time of Corona)

Book excerpt: Edith McCaughey is sick and tired of the Covid-19 lockdown placed in her city, New York. She has recently been through a terrible breakup, which completely lifted her faith from the opposite gender. She got laid off from her job because of the pandemic. Now, depressed and bound inside her home, she decides to install a dating app on her phone to casually check out the guys in her immediate vicinity. What she doesn't know is her life is about to change. Enter Brett Miller, an eccentric virtual reality application developer, who, despite them both being immobilized in their homes, takes Edith on the most mind blowing date she has ever been on. In that virtual world, they roam the streets of Paris, take a gondola through Venice and Amsterdam, catch a movie, and share a profound conversation. Everything seems to be going well until Edith gets infected by the virus...