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A Year Without Her
I thought I was just debugging an app. Turns out, I was falling in love - with a woman, a dog, and a completely unreasonable number of emotional growth opportunities.
Hi. I'm Ethan Carter. Tech CEO. Serial overthinker. Probably allergic to kale. I built an app that went viral - after the woman I loved died and left it unfinished… along with a three-legged dog and a sarcastic goodbye note disguised as a code comment.
Her name was Lila Ward. Smart. Fierce. Funny. And living with Proteus syndrome - a rare condition that never defined her, even when it shaped everything. We met over a freelance project. We bonded over code, jazz, and trashy reality shows. I fell hard. She told me not to.
I didn’t listen.
We built something beautiful together. But time ran out. Now, I’m stuck with grief, a brilliant app full of bugs, and a panic button that talks in her voice. (She’d be thrilled to know it keeps calling me “Hotshot.”)
This is the story of how I broke, rebuilt, and relearned everything - one line of code, one ghost in the machine, one impossible girl at a time.
If you like your love stories weird, witty, and just a little bit heartbreaking - pull up a bench. I saved you a seat.
Perfect for fans of The Flatshare, The Dead Romantics, and anyone who’s ever loved a person who rewired their world.
Hi. I'm Ethan Carter. Tech CEO. Serial overthinker. Probably allergic to kale. I built an app that went viral - after the woman I loved died and left it unfinished… along with a three-legged dog and a sarcastic goodbye note disguised as a code comment.
Her name was Lila Ward. Smart. Fierce. Funny. And living with Proteus syndrome - a rare condition that never defined her, even when it shaped everything. We met over a freelance project. We bonded over code, jazz, and trashy reality shows. I fell hard. She told me not to.
I didn’t listen.
We built something beautiful together. But time ran out. Now, I’m stuck with grief, a brilliant app full of bugs, and a panic button that talks in her voice. (She’d be thrilled to know it keeps calling me “Hotshot.”)
This is the story of how I broke, rebuilt, and relearned everything - one line of code, one ghost in the machine, one impossible girl at a time.
If you like your love stories weird, witty, and just a little bit heartbreaking - pull up a bench. I saved you a seat.
Perfect for fans of The Flatshare, The Dead Romantics, and anyone who’s ever loved a person who rewired their world.
242 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 6, 2025
About the author
Raspal Chima
29 books2 followersRaspal Chima was born in West Bromwich, England and graduated from Coventry University with a degree in physics.
Raspal has been writing for most of his adult life, mostly in his professional capacity as a magazine editor and feature writer for a number of publications. He now works on AI integration projects for a software development company - which further provides a fertile ground for his techno-thriller novels.
Raspal is at his best writing techno-thrillers in an authoritative, yet informal narrative style. His stories are told with plausible panache and a hard edge of undeniable science, yet move along with the irrevocable inertia of a fairground roller-coaster ride.
Raspal has been writing for most of his adult life, mostly in his professional capacity as a magazine editor and feature writer for a number of publications. He now works on AI integration projects for a software development company - which further provides a fertile ground for his techno-thriller novels.
Raspal is at his best writing techno-thrillers in an authoritative, yet informal narrative style. His stories are told with plausible panache and a hard edge of undeniable science, yet move along with the irrevocable inertia of a fairground roller-coaster ride.
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