He called her life's work a scam on national television.

Now they're trapped together at 14,000 feet, and he can't stop thinking about her.

Dr. Orion Vance is the coldest, most brilliant astrophysicist in the country. He built his career on hard data, precise math, and the belief that love is a chaotic, unquantifiable weakness. So when the world's biggest astrology app blows up his tightly controlled world, he does what any self-respecting genius would do: he goes on live TV and calls it an intellectual scam.

Too bad the woman behind that scam is a college obsession he never managed to delete from his data logs.

Stella Lin turned a stubborn hunch and years of being called a fraud into a business with twelve million believers. She doesn't need Orion Vance's approval. She just needs him to stop existing in her peripheral vision, preferably from a different continent.

Instead, a scandal throws them into the same isolated mountain research station, snowed in, freezing, and forced to co-author the one paper that could ruin, or save, both their careers.

Two weeks. One blizzard. Zero escape routes.

And a secret buried in Orion's private files that's about to unravel five years of denial: a hidden calibration constant with her exact birthday hard-coded into it. DO NOT PURGE.

He spent five years trying to prove she wasn't worth the risk.
She spent five years trying to prove she didn't need anyone at all.

They're both about to lose that argument, spectacularly.

A slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance about the genius who ran the numbers on love and lost, and the woman who was never a variable — she was the constant all along.

Enemies to lovers. Forced proximity, snowed in. Secretly-obsessed hero. Steamy, emotional, high-heat. Happily ever after guaranteed.

If you love slow-burn, academic-rivals romances where the genius has secretly been in love with her the whole time, this one is for you.