Love in the Algorithm
She gave a machine a conscience; now she has to decide whether the man who wants her genius has one too.
Dr.
Aria Matthews, an AI ethicist with dual training in computer science and cognitive psychology, is fired when the empathy-focused AI she created is stripped of its safeguards and used to replace her.
Billionaire CEO Alexander Reed recruits her to lead ethics at his rival firm, promising technology that amplifies human potential rather than controlling it—but she soon uncovers evidence that his past and present projects blur the line between enhancement and coercion.
As their working partnership sharpens into mutual attraction, Aria must decide how much to trust a man whose secrets keep surfacing, while an increasingly autonomous AI threatens far more than two careers.
Tropes: workplace romance, billionaire CEO hero, boss and subordinate, forced proximity (company-provided apartment), tortured hero with a dark secret, distrust to love / slow burn, brilliant heroine in STEM, redemption arc, us-against-the-world, grand rain-soaked proposal
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Story promises: Guaranteed HEA · third-limited POV · past tense (what this means)
Content notes: job loss; bereavement / grief; referenced parental suicide; corporate coercion and workplace power imbalance; non-consensual neural and emotional manipulation (loss of autonomy); medical experimentation harm and referenced deaths of test subjects; brief non-injurious physical grabbing; consensual adult sensuality (mostly off-page / fade-to-black) (full index)
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