A biological engineer discovers his fiance's affair with his boss, and decides to start over in a new town with a new life. In the depth of depression and post traumatic stress, he develops a synthetic Pheromone that makes any woman fall for him, but nature forever needing balance as it does, makes the males want to kill him when they pick up his scent. To survive and to thrive he has to play the small town against each other in the first of the trilogy of Everburn. Fuel.