MoonKissGFO
Anna Marie is an expert at finding the logic in chaos. As a high-level Reporting Analyst, her world is defined by spreadsheets, quarterly trends, and "Standard Operating Procedures." After a history of messy heartbreaks and "System Failures," she's finally built the perfect defensive shield: The Baseline. It's her personal data-driven code for vetting relationships before they can ever hurt her again.
But Lucas was never part of the forecast.
A messy-haired artist with a sketchbook and a habit of showing up exactly when her data says he shouldn't, Lucas doesn't fit into a cell. He lives in the "Blue Door" apartment just two streets away, and he moves through life looking for beauty while Anna Marie is looking for errors.
When a "Caffeine Coincidence" turns into a three-month upward trajectory, Anna Marie is forced to face her biggest challenge yet. As they travel from the rigid city skyline to the colorful, unscripted heart of the province, she realizes that the people from Lucas's past-and his own "Source Code"-can't be audited from a distance.
When a "Legacy Bug" from Lucas's past threatens to crash their new life, Anna Marie must decide: Will she retreat back into her "Safe Zone" of logic and spreadsheets? Or will she finally delete her old files and trust the only formula that actually matters?
In the end, she'll learn that the perfect love isn't something you calculate-it's something you build, one day at a time, with the right person.