Emory Carter has a plan for everything. She teaches math, keeps her life quiet, and avoids anything that can’t be broken into steps and solved. Feelings are messy, unpredictable, and way too risky. So she sticks to coffee, calculus, and calm.

Then she meets Sam Morgan.

He is warm where she is guarded, curious where she is careful, and completely, frustratingly unforgettable. Emory lets him in little by little, certain she has finally found something real. Someone real.

What she doesn’t know is that Sam is already known by millions. He is the hidden voice behind Obsidian Veil, the mask-wearing metal singer whose face the world is desperate to uncover. With her, Sam just wants to be himself. With everyone else, he is the secret they won’t stop chasing.

When his identity is exposed, Emory is pushed into a spotlight she never asked for and forced to question the one thing she trusted most: him. Now she has to decide if love is a risk she can live with, or if some truths are too big to survive.

Love doesn’t always add up. Sometimes you have to solve for what you can’t see.