His world is chaos. His is order. Their love is the one variable they never saw coming.
Ren Kim is the architect of HEARTSYNC, the celebrated K-pop group. His life is a carefully managed equation of chaos and control, and his first loyalty is to his found family. Professor Thomas Blackwood is a man who eliminated chaos from his life decades ago. A reclusive theoretical physicist, his world is a fortress of elegant proofs and irrefutable data where emotion is a variable to be dismissed—except when it comes to his younger brother, Liam.
When a bureaucratic wall threatens Liam's dream of adopting a child with his husband, HEARTSYNC's Yujin, Thomas is reluctantly pulled into the band's chaotic orbit. He finds his opposite number in Ren, the group's brilliant and infuriatingly intuitive producer. Forced into an alliance, their methods are a declaration of war: Thomas trusts only in cold logic, while Ren believes in the power of the human variable. But as their intellectual sparring ignites an inconvenient and undeniable attraction, their budding connection becomes the very thing that could jeopardize the family they're fighting to build.
Ren has spent his life managing chaos for others. Thomas has spent his life eliminating it for himself. To save the family they both love, they must do the one thing they've always avoided: surrender. In a world of elegant proofs and chaotic melodies, can two lonely architects, masters of their own opposing universes, finally solve the quiet equation humming between them?
The Quiet Equation is a M/M enemies-to-lovers romance set in the world of HEARTSYNC. It features a stoic physicist, a brilliant producer, forced proximity, intellectual sparring, and a powerful found family. Get ready for a slow-burn love story that proves the most beautiful discoveries happen when you dare to challenge the data.