Algorithm of Us

Tara O'Neill has built her life on rules that can be audited.
By day, she leads a fairness lab in Dublin, tuning algorithms that decide what people see, what they're offered, and who gets left in the dark. Her work is precise, principled, and relentlessly public. Every dashboard, every bell, every governance document exists to protect one simple thing: preference must never be taken without consent.
By night, the rules are quieter but no less strict. Tara lives alone, keeps her rituals close, and refuses to risk the one thing she's never been able to model-love.
Declan Byrne has already learned the cost of getting it wrong.
Once the darling of frictionless tech, he walked away after a product crossed a line he couldn't defend. Now he's back in the arena on Tara's team, sleeves rolled up, trying to help build something better: a system where choice isn't a trick, and power comes with obligations instead of excuses.
Their chemistry is immediate, undeniable... and deeply inconvenient.
As pressure mounts-from funders who want growth, from partners who want glossy stories instead of hard numbers, from regulators who would rather not understand what they're approving-Tara and Declan are forced to stake out what they will and won't trade away.
When a leak exposes how much the system already knows about the people who trust it, Tara has to decide whether to protect the work, the lab, or the person she loves. And Declan must prove, in private and in public, that consent isn't just a checkbox in his code but the foundation of the life he wants with her.
Tender, sharp, and fiercely contemporary, Algorithm of Us is a tech-ethics love story about grown-up romance, shared responsibility, and the quiet bravery of choosing each other when the whole world is watching the numbers.