Beyond Data: Some things can't be calculated

She had a framework for everything. He didn't fit any of them.Helena da Silva built her life on evidence. Raised in the loudest house in Porto Alegre, she clawed her way out through data, discipline, and an unshakeable conviction that men — statistically, historically, empirically — were a risk not worth taking. She has the numbers to prove it. She has the platform, the apartment she bought in cash, and the saffron growing on her balcony as proof that she needs nothing she can't grow herself.Then Lucas walks into her orbit. He's not what her models predicted. He doesn't perform, doesn't posture, and — most dangerously — he actually listens. For the first time in Helena's carefully calibrated life, the data isn't adding up.Beyond Data is a slow-burn romance about the woman who had all the answers and the one question she never thought to ask. It's about Black womanhood, the invisible tax of being the first in your family to arrive somewhere, and the radical act of letting someone in without losing yourself in the process. It's about friendship that survives floods and heartbreak. About the difference between a fortress and a home.For readers who want a love story that makes them think as hard as it makes them feel — this is the variable that changes everything. Read more