I Love the Bomb

By Arden Vale

What do you call the thing you love when it is already falling?

Milo Dorne has lived three versions of the same disaster.

In one world, he is a scholarship student who fails an exam by writing the most dangerous answer in the room. In another, he is a reckless romantic who calls Amara Bell "the bomb" and learns too late that metaphors have shrapnel. In a third, he is a reluctant soldier waiting under an American strike no one will admit is a mistake.

Above him circles Blue Orchard, a precision weapon sold as mercy by PaxMantic Systems-a defense contractor fluent in patriotism, profit, and plausible deniability. As a targeting algorithm begins connecting student debt, dating profiles, university records, and battlefield intelligence, one man becomes a lover, a failure, a suspect, and a target.

Darkly funny, romantic, and ferociously anti-war, I Love the Bomb is a multiverse literary thriller about a country's love language, a woman who refuses to be anyone's symbol, and the machinery that turns ordinary desire into extraordinary violence.

Love story. War story. Targeting error.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H3LCX96Y
• ISBN13: 9798199493376
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"