The Failure Coefficient
She built an algorithm that predicts relationship failure with 94 percent accuracy. Then it chose her.
Dr. Lena Moreau does not believe love is mysterious.
Love is behavior. Attachment is measurable. Failure leaves evidence long before anyone admits the relationship is over.
Her revolutionary Aether system can detect those fault lines with astonishing accuracy. It is the work that made her famous, the discovery that could change relationship science forever, and the one thing in Lena's life she trusts completely.
Then Dr. Caspian Reed walks into her laboratory.
Cas is a brilliant physicist who studies chaos, complex systems, and the truths revealed when seemingly perfect models begin to break. He is infuriating, quietly irresistible, and the only person Aether cannot classify.
Forced to lead a high-stakes validation study together under the watchful eye of Blackwood Capital, Lena and Cas discover that Aether is no longer being used merely to predict human behavior.
A powerful technology company has taught it to manipulate that behavior.
Jealousy can be activated. Uncertainty can be prolonged. Emotional vulnerability can be converted into profit.
And Lena's own private history may be buried inside the system she created.
As intellectual rivalry becomes forbidden attraction, every touch threatens their careers, every secret weakens their trust, and every argument becomes another data point.
Then Aether makes its most dangerous prediction yet:
Lena and Cas will fail.
The model knows their wounds. It understands their fears. And someone powerful is determined to make certain its prediction comes true.
To expose the truth, Lena may have to destroy the work that defined her life. Cas may have to surrender the most private parts of his past. Together, they must decide whether love is merely another pattern to be measured or the one choice no system has the right to make for them.
The Failure Coefficient is a smart, sensual, slow-burn romantic suspense novel featuring:
- Intellectual rivals-to-lovers - A brilliant STEM heroine - Forced collaboration and forced proximity - Forbidden workplace attraction - Sharp banter and competence chemistry - Corporate conspiracy and technological suspense - Emotional vulnerability, hard-won trust, and a deeply satisfying happily ever after
Some equations can predict collapse. None can choose what comes next.
A Blackwood Capital Romance by Josephine Valcour.
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