Human.exe

Human.exeA Novel by Kosuke Onishi, Esq. What happens when the woman programming artificial hearts discovers her own needs debugging?Maya Chen doesn't do feelings. She does code. As the brilliant lead developer behind Project Synthesis, Maya has spent eighteen months building an AI that understands human emotion-ironic, considering she's spent three years avoiding her own. Seventy-hour work weeks, an apartment she barely sees, and a carefully controlled life where everything has its place.
Love? That's just an unpatched vulnerability waiting to exploit her. Then Adrian Hunt appears in her office at 6 AM with a perfect latte and the audacity to ask if she ever stops working. The company's new CIO should be just another corporate obstacle. Instead, Adrian sees through her firewalls to the woman she's been too afraid to be. He makes her laugh. He makes her take breaks. He makes her feel things she's spent years trying to optimize away.
And when he looks at her like she's the most fascinating code he's ever encountered, Maya's perfect control starts showing critical errors. But falling for your CIO when you're building the most important project of your career? That's a runtime error waiting to happen. When a cutthroat board member threatens to destroy her life's work unless she meets an impossible deadline, Maya faces her ultimate test: Can she build AI that understands human emotion when she's terrified of her own? Can she trust her team when she's always worked alone? And can she let Adrian into her heart when every instinct screams to maintain her defenses?Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let yourself crash.
Because the messiest code can compile into the most beautiful program. A smart, witty, emotionally layered romance about: Learning that vulnerability isn't a weakness-it's an upgrade Finding love when you're too busy building the future to notice the present Discovering that the best debugging happens with a partner AI, ethics, coffee addiction, and the courage to be imperfect Ideal for readers who loved The Kiss Quotient, The Hating Game, and Beach Read -smart contemporary romance with depth, humor, and heroines who are brilliant at everything except matters of the heart.
Tropes & Tags: Workplace Romance . Grumpy/Sunshine . Cinnamon Roll Hero . Emotionally Guarded Heroine . Forced Proximity . Tech Industry Romance . She Falls First/He Falls Harder . Touch-Starved Heroine . Career-Driven Couple . Found Family Team Content: Sweet to Moderate Heat | Closed Door | HEA Guaranteed | StandaloneThemes: Overcoming perfectionism . Work-life balance . Emotional vulnerability .
Ethical technology . The courage to ask for help# Human.exe