For an engineer by trade, life is usually focused on facts and figures rather than sweeping romantic gestures. But Alice Dang prefers a bit of both worlds. What started as a casual evening writing routine quickly turned into a deep obsession with the human heart and the stories we leave unsaid. As the author of Extra in Love, Alice writes for anyone who knows the risk of risking a friendship for something more.When she isn’t solving technical problems, she’s usually imagining parallel lives, tracing how the same two people can find their way to each other through historic galleries, busy cities, and small towns that refuse to mind their own business.