High school senior Maya, soon to be an MIT student, continues her deceased mother's work on pheromones and attraction, using a stranger, a platonic friend, and her ex-boyfriend as subjects. For Maya, the equation for happiness is simple: a dream internship at MIT + two new science nerd friends + a perfect boyfriend = one amazing summer. Then Whit dumps her out of the blue. Maya discovers that before her death, her scientist mother was conducting research on manipulating pheromones to enhance human attraction. Can she use the research to get Whit back? Or will she have to trust the unmeasurables of love and attraction instead?