The Anatomy of Alibis: A Novel Secrets, Syntax, and Seduction

Control is merely an illusion. Love is a chaotic anomaly. Elena Vance lives according to the rules of the red pencil. As a New York top crisis editor, she mends the messy, leaking syntax of the powerful, transforming corporate disasters into smooth, harmless prose. Her desk is a landscape of perfect right angles, her calendar is meticulously colour-coded, and her heart is kept strictly out of the margins. She believes that if you control the narrative, you control the world. But you can't copyedit Chaos. Or can you? Enter a brilliant, frustrating mathematician armed with a laptop, a spreadsheet, and an algorithm that claims her highly organised business model and her entire approach to life are hopelessly inefficient. He doesn't understand the nuances of language, and she has no patience for his cold, calculated equations. He is a walking traffic jam in her pristine, scheduled world. Yet, as their battling rivalry evolves into something neither could have anticipated, the formulas begin to unravel. When a high-stakes crisis threatens to destroy everything Elena has built, she is forced to confront a frightening truth: that indeed, the human heart is a notoriously poor editor. Can two minds obsessed with order survive the messy, beautiful, and utterly unpredictable equation of falling in love?