Foundation

Witty. Romantic. Steam-powered.

I don’t do relationships. I do calculations—and Nicole Kennedy is a problem I can’t solve.

When my family’s engineering firm sends me to investigate a sinkhole at her house, I swear I feel a tremor in the foundation of my world.

She’s loud and crass and has no time for nonsense. She also seems to hate everything about me.

Which is normally fine, because I hate everyone. But…I can’t stop thinking about her.

I see her all the time, between the trench swallowing her yard and the corporate relay race our bosses insisted we both run.

Somewhere between all the sprinting and the soil analysis, I find a tiny crack in her armor. Maybe she’ll cut me some slack? Maybe I’ll figure out what makes her tick.