Maxwell Opel: University of Feelings
Attention: NOT A LOVE STORY; rather, a joke! All characters are 18+:
Maxwell Opel was a prodigy-awkward, brilliant, and barely holding himself together. He knew chemistry better than people, formulas better than friends. But when a mysterious lab accident during a school cruise unleashes a chain reaction of trauma, memory loss, and buried feelings, Maxwell wakes up with no recollection of who he is... only the haunting knowledge that someone once meant everything to him.
Surrounded by classmates he doesn't recognize, stalked by echoes of a past he can't grasp, Maxwell begins to rebuild himself from the chemical residue of who he used to be. Among those helping him: Sam, the soft-spoken friend who might be something more; Falk, the chaotic heart slowly growing up; Lando, the unbothered genius cracked open by grief; and Mr. Roth-Maxwell's former chemistry professor, protector, and the man whose presence feels dangerously like home.
But just as Maxwell begins to remember, their world sinks-literally.
When disaster strikes at sea, Maxwell and his classmates must fight to survive as the ship tears apart around them. Bonds are tested, secrets surface, and lives are lost. As flames consume the ballroom and the sea rises around him, Maxwell will be forced to choose who he is, who he loves, and who he's willing to lose forever.
A poetic, tragic coming-of-age romance set against the backdrop of fire, saltwater, and starlight, University Feelings is a story of memory, found family, and the price of love in its most volatile form.
Because sometimes, the strongest reactions... are the ones that break you.
