Zero Cost to Love

Cover by Cady Galleta

I’m thrilled to reveal the cover for my new Rust romance novel “Zero Cost to Love”, on sale April 1st.

She’s an internationally famous high-performance computing architect. He’s a rumpled, handsome, yet socially awkward basement coder. When they meet-cute by collaborating on a PR to the Rust compiler, they fall in love—blazing fast.

But despite their shared passion for strict typing and zero-cost abstractions, it seems that their love can never be: he favours tabs while she’s a spaces girl.

💖💖💖💖💖 “Readers will cargo run to buy this tempestuous tale of lust and longing frustrated by irreconcilable differences over whitespace. You’ll be moved, not copied.” (Publishers Weekly)

In a world of undefined behaviour, their hearts refuse to segfault. Enjoy the emotional beats:

• The meet-cute: their pull request review spirals into a 47-comment debate about lifetime annotations.

• The first spark: she whispers, “Your borrow checker insight… it’s beautiful.”

• The dark moment: she opens his editor and sees the tabs. The horror. The betrayal.

“How long have you been hiding this from me?”
“It’s configurable per project, Clara!”
“Don’t gaslight me with config, Daniel!”

Then the reconciliation at the end when they realise rustfmt can save them. True love, auto-formatted.

Don’t miss my other, marginally less romantic Rust books.