Fans of Emma Lord, Rachel Lynn Solomon, and Alex Light will love this clever, charming, and poignant debut novel with a masterful slow-burn romance at its core about a girl who must decide whether to pursue her dreams or preserve her relationships, including a budding romance with her ex-best friend, when an app she created goes viral.
Ro Devereux can predict your future. Or, at least, the app she built for her senior project can.
Working with her neighbor, a retired behavioral scientist, Ro created an app called MASH, designed around the classic game Mansion Apartment Shack House, that can predict a person's future with 93% accuracy. The app will even match users with their soulmates. Though it was only supposed to be a class project, MASH quickly takes off and gains the attention of tech investors.
Ro's dream is to work in Silicon Valley, and she'll do anything to prove to her new backing companyâand the worldâthat the app works. So it's a huge shock when the app says her soulmate is Miller, her childhood best friend with whom she had a friendship-destroying fight three years ago.
Now thrust into a fake dating scenario, Ro and Miller must address the years of pain between them if either of them will have any chance of achieving their dreams. And as the app takes on a life of its own, Ro sees that it's affecting people in ways she never expectedâand if she can't regain control, it might take her and everything she believes in down with it.
- Friends to Lovers: He was her childhood best friend. Now, after a fight that ruined everything, Ro's future-predicting app says Miller is her soulmate.
- Fake Relationship: To get the Silicon Valley funding she desperately wants, Ro has to prove her app worksâeven if it means fake-dating the one boy she was determined to hate forever.
- Girls in STEM: Ro Devereux is a coder with a dream. She built the viral app MASH from the ground up for her senior project, proving she has what it takes to make it in tech.
- Coming of Age: Between viral fame, a second chance with her first friend, and the pressure to secure her future, Ro must decide what's more important: her ambition or her heart.