the scientific study of love

violet lekov-white, a neuroscience professor at columbia university, has everything. a perfect academic career, supportive family and friends, her borderline personality disorder under control.
marlene shields, an english language professor at columbia university, wants everything. she already has a successful academic career, a cat to support her, her best friends to hold her when she's down.
then, one day, violet sends a drunken email, threatening marlene to accept her brother into her department. violet meets marlene, but lies to her about who she is because she knows marlene hates violet lekov-white. things get complicated quickly. violet falls for marlene, but marlene falls for morgan, who violet tells her she is.
marlene learns who morgan actually is. but can she forgive violet for lying to her about who she is?