Highly Improbable: A Trope-Bending Paranormal Rom-Com
Never mix business with pleasure. Especially when the business is a cursed armchair.
Dr. Cordelia Wilde has a perfectly reasonable theory about her career: the dead are the only reliable people left. They don't cancel plans, they don't ghost you, and they stay exactly where you archive them. As the curator of a delightfully underfunded museum, her life is a tidy ecosystem of dust, history, and a roped-off nineteenth-century chair rumored to cause immediate and catastrophic romantic ruin.
Enter Sloane Hendricks.
Sloane is a corporate risk underwriter who looks like she was assembled in a wind tunnel calibrated for maximum authority. She doesn't believe in ghosts, folklore, or magic. She believes in spreadsheets, regression analysis, and the fact that Cora's beloved museum is a massive premises liability claim wearing a gift shop.
To prove the curse is nothing more than aggressive marketing, Cora does the only logical thing: she sits in the chair on a live stream.
And that's when the universe decides to start copying romantic comedies.
Suddenly, Cora and Sloane are trapped in an escalating war against a localized narrative reality. Coincidence completely breaks down, forcing them into a relentless barrage of shameless romance tropes:
Isolated, inside-the-stockroom rainstorms that target exactly one person.
Stray golden retriever puppies delivering lost iPads.
An unprompted April blizzard that traps them in a quaint B&B with-you guessed it-Only One Bed.
An unplugged, nonfunctional jukebox that refuses to stop playing emotionally heavy saxophone solos.
As Sloane frantically tracks their "Trope Anomalies" on a heavily locked data sheet, both women realize the curse isn't trying to ruin them-it's trying to match them. And worse? If they give in to the grand, cinematic gesture the universe is orchestrating, the script locks permanently, and they lose their free will forever.
Can an archivist who hides in the past and an actuary who hides behind numbers out-smart a century-old curse? Or will they find out the hard way that some things are worth a terrible risk model?
Why readers are falling for Highly Improbable:Opposites Attract / Grumpy x Grumpy: A chaotic, history-hoarding curator meets a fiercely efficient corporate actuary.
Paranormal Rom-Com with a Twist: A literal curse that breaks the fourth wall by weaponizing classic romance tropes.
Witty, Fast-Paced Banter: Perfect for fans of sharp dialogue, hyper-competent women, and heavy emotional payoff disguised as logistical bickering.
"I track anomalies for a living, Dr. Wilde. If something's happening to us, I'm not going to sit around feeling about it."
"You made a curse spreadsheet." Scroll up and hit "Buy Now" to find out what happens when the data runs out and reality takes over!Customer Reviews
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