Ellen O'Clover

Ellen O'Clover turns an algorithmic prediction into a test of friendship, ambition, and consent in Seven Percent of Ro Devereux. Ro revives a childhood game as MASH, an app that predicts users' futures with striking confidence. When the project goes viral, the public wants answers and corporate attention raises the stakes, but the program gives Ro only a seven percent chance of ending up with Miller, her former best friend. The premise lets O'Clover examine how a quantified forecast can change the choices it claims merely to describe. Published by HarperTeen in 2023, the novel was her teen-fiction debut and combines contemporary romance with questions about technology and privacy. Ro's creative success never exists apart from its consequences for classmates and loved ones. Seven Percent of Ro Devereux therefore treats uncertainty as valuable: a future assembled from data cannot replace the difficult work of apology, trust, and choosing what kind of person to become.