When a mysterious global event erases humanity’s capacity for romantic love, freelance fact-checker Elara Finch watches the world go politely, logically mad. Her sister no longer understands her marriage. Couples become cordial roommates. Armed with a fact-checker’s logic and a desperate heart, Elara embarks on a quest to prove love existed. Collecting artifacts of lost affection, she stages a grand, illogical experiment to remind her broken world of the stories behind the facts—discovering that in the absence of feeling, the choice to act *as if* might be enough to begin again.
