THE THEORY OF US
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Lena Carter is a neuroscience major with a strict life plan-graduate with honors, land a prestigious scholarship, and avoid distractions, especially love. But when she's forced into a semester-long psychology experiment with Asher Hayes, the campus' most unpredictable music major, her structured world starts to fall apart.
The experiment? A deep-dive study on emotional connection. Two strangers must spend time together, answer personal questions, and engage in activities designed to create intimacy. Lena is determined to keep things scientific, but Asher-spontaneous, charming, and frustratingly insightful-challenges her every belief about emotions, love, and life.
As their sessions turn into late-night conversations, impulsive adventures, and undeniable chemistry, Lena starts questioning if love really is just a chemical reaction... or something more.
But Asher has secrets, and Lena has a future planned far away from him. Will they prove love is just a theory, or will they become the exception?
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