What if modern love isn't a fairy tale, but a haunted house? At forty-five, Athena Roy knows everything about love-at least on paper. As an editor, she spends her days perfecting other people's romances. Her own love life, however, is a collection of almosts, missteps and beautifully timed disasters-with men she barely knew, marriages she imagined entirely in her head and children she sometimes named before the second date. Then she enters LoveChance, a dating app that promises connection but feels more like a haunted house. Every swipe opens another creaking door. Ghosts of almost-lovers linger in its corridors, mixed signals whisper through the walls, and promising men vanish just when they begin to feel real. Yet somewhere inside the chaos, love may still be waiting-with the light on. In the secret pages of her diary, Athena confesses everything: the painfully awkward messages, spectacular dating disasters, unanswered texts, imaginary happily-ever-afters and the one-sided love she cannot quite leave behind. Beneath her wicked humour lies a vulnerable question: How many times can a heart risk hope before it finally stops believing? Candid, hilarious and achingly relatable, LoveChance: A Field Guide to Modern-Day Love is not simply a story about finding love. It is about surviving the search without losing your dignity, your humour-or yourself. Because sometimes love isn't about certainty. Sometimes, you simply have to take a chance. After all, love happens by chance.