Heart Analytics By Kulthum Asha

When data-obsessed Renike Bello agrees to a harmless tutoring arrangement with Rotimi ‘RJ’ Jacobs, the annoyingly attractive baseball player, campus heartthrob, and her biggest rival for the top spot in class, she expects nothing more than a boost in her Analytics course. She doesn’t expect stolen glances, soft confessions, or a connection that rewrites every rule she’s built her life around.

But love is the one variable Renike can’t control. And when a cruel misunderstanding shatters their fragile new bond, she’s forced to confront the truth she’s spent years burying: that sometimes the most terrifying risks are the ones that change you.

Now RJ is spiralling, Renike is panicking, and the exam of their lives is the least complicated thing between them. As family expectations, old wounds, and fear of failure collide, she must decide: does she want a tidy life with predictable outcomes, or the messy, breathtaking chaos that only love with RJ can bring?

A heart-wrecking, deeply romantic story that blends wit, desire, romance and hope in a heady, well-paced and unforgettable read.

Kulthum Asha is a romance and mystery writer and an ELCA-certified screenwriter, eager to clarify that her Yoruba roots run deep despite her possibly misleading name. Originally born in Lagos, Nigeria, she moved to Mauritius for her bachelor’s degree before heading to the U.S. for graduate school. She holds a bachelor’s in Social Sciences from The African Leadership College (which technically makes her a social scientist), and a master’s in Marketing Intelligence, where she also cried her way through learning to code.