Love. Life. Mathematics.: Novela y referencia in English and Spanish (Hot Spanish Readers: Romance line)

A love story you can count on wrapped in a numerical reference book. Calculate your time to fluency as you learn numbers in Spanish and English.Valentina counts for a living; Santiago is the one variable she can't solve. She's a sharp Medellín lawyer who trusts numbers far more than people — until he lands on the wrong side of her case and refuses to stay the enemy. Across twenty-seven short chapters, from the day they meet to the last page of their story, you'll watch two stubborn people slowly add up. And somewhere between the prices, the tips, and a phone number scribbled at 2 a.m., you'll realize you've been learning Spanish the entire time.Here's the trick: every chapter appears twice — once in English, once in Spanish — in genuine beginner (A1) Spanish. Short sentences, the present tense, and the hundreds of words the two languages already share. You don't need a single word of Spanish to begin. You only need to keep turning the page.And the math? It's the real arithmetic of an adult life — prices, tips, splitting a bill, converting pesos to dollars, time, dates, phone numbers, big purchases. The numbers you actually use, in the language you actually want.Inside the book:27 bilingual chapters — read the English, the Spanish, or bothA clear numbers panel in every chapter, plus a cultural note and a phrase to rememberPronunciation guides for both languages, up frontComplete back-matter charts: numbers, money, time and dates, the four operations, the alphabet, cognates, key phrases, and a Tricky Numbers cheat sheetA real setting and culture: Medellín, ColombiaNo exercises, no worksheets — the practice is the reading itselfClean and grown-up. Real chemistry and emotional depth, but the door stays closed before anything explicit. No profanity, and alcohol only in mild, social settings.Learn in either direction. Because every word appears in both languages, English speakers use it to learn Spanish — and Spanish speakers can use the very same pages to learn English. It's two readers in one.If you've stalled on apps and flashcards, this is the book that finally makes the language stick — by giving you a reason to turn the page.Part of the Hot Spanish Readers for Beginners series. Read more