Proof by Contradiction

Elanie Meier has made peace with being difficult to know.

She keeps her life carefully divided-data sets and practice rooms, sharp logic and curated indifference. Between her applied math lectures and late-night cello rehearsals, there's no space for feelings she can't quantify. Swipe left, keep moving. Dating is just another variable she doesn't want to solve.

But when she's paired with Luke Olafson-quiet, brilliant, and disarmingly observant-for a research project, things start to shift. What begins as a joking experiment turns real when Luke proposes they build an algorithm to find her perfect match... using her own Tinder history.

She agrees. For the data. For the control. Not for him.

But Luke reads between lines she didn't know she was writing. He notices patterns she didn't realize she was repeating. And as the model builds and the numbers start to point in unexpected directions, Elanie is forced to confront the one thing she's never factored in:

What if the reason she can't find the right match... is because she's been trying not to be found?

Tender, sharp, and quietly intimate, Proof by Contradiction is a slow-burn story about what happens when the math doesn't lie-but the person behind it does.