Stupid for Cupid (Hot for the Holidays #2)

Prologue

Every year, millions of people swear off love. They look for a curse or a cure that can protect them from painful matters of the heart.

It’s cute that they think they can become immune to it, but they’ll keep trying, regardless.

Only one person in the history of humankind has ever come close to figuring out an algorithm that could, for all intents and purposes, eliminate love.

In a cramped studio apartment in the not-so-glamorous side of the Bay Area of California, a brilliant and prickly software engineer is putting the final touches on her anti-dating app—an artificial intelligence-powered invention for matching people with future life partners, without love as part of the equation.

Slowly at first, and then like wildfire, this app has the potential to spread.

And along with it, the creator’s central philosophy: that love is an archaic, dying notion.

That in the age of technological innovation, smart-everything, and artificial intelligence, love is just another theory that never quite pans out.

And so, in her mind, it’s pointless to even try.

The hubris of humans knows no end. Yet…

If all goes to plan, this anti-dating app will make love obsolete—and change the course of humankind as we know it. But only if all goes to plan.

That’s where Cupid comes in.