In today’s episode, we meet Sarah Archer, author of “the Plus One,” a novel about what happens when a female robotics engineer who can’t find a date to her sister’s wedding to pacify the unrelenting pressure by her mother to get a man, decides to build her own date, the perfect man for her.

Dating is hard, and apparently, being dateless at your perfect sister’s wedding is even harder, which is why, when Kelly couldn’t find Mr. Right, she built him. Renee Carlino, author of “Blind Kiss,” calls it “simply unputdownable,” a story full of laughter and tears.

Sarah starts the show with a reading from early in the book where the protagonist’s mother and her family are putting the heat on her to get a date for her sister’s wedding.