He likes modern; she likes vintage. He trains machines; she educates humans.

He's digital; she's analog. A clear-cut case of incompatibility? They assume so.

But when they try to bridge the divide, their real struggle comes from within: each hesitates to trust love. Will they manage to strike a balance in their relationship as they do in their worldviews?Whenever Agnes (28) and Gareth (31) meet, they clash on almost everything.

Yet against the odds, cycling brings them together. While riding, Agnes tells Gareth that she likes "jerks without fangs.

" Unable to trust anything more than a casual fling after a girlfriend cheated on him, Gareth writes himself off as a jerk with fangs so as to protect Agnes from himself. But having Agnes as his next-door neighbor turns out to be too much for the commitment-phobic Gareth, and he seduces her.

The two grow closer through their quarrels, and Gareth demonstrates on several occasions his dedication to Agnes. But their adversarial dynamic-which turns them both on-develops into a precarious balancing act that could hurt them both.

And their relationship blurs the lines between love and addiction. What will it take for Gareth to own up to his weaknesses and trust himself? What will their connection teach Agnes about herself? Have they transformed each other for the better-or for the worse?This steamy contemporary romance novel explores the difficulties of being human in the age of AI.

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