Mara Suthiphan is trying to map the human heart.
Scientifically speaking.
Her PhD thesis is brilliant, her methodology is airtight, and her funding has just been completely pulled because apparently *staged kisses between consenting adult strangers* is, and she is quoting directly, difficult to position within the faculty's current public engagement priorities.
Fine. She'll redesign the study. She'll find a co-investigator. She'll make the committee say yes.
What she will not do is fall for the co-investigator.
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*For readers of* Casey McQuiston *and* Helen Hoang. *Warm, sharp, and guaranteed to make you rethink every feeling you've ever dismissed as unscientific.*
The science is real.
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