Beginner's Guide: Love And Other Chemical Reactions
by Six de los Reyes
Buy on AmazonFalling in love is a chemical reaction. Just ask Kaya Rubio, twenty-five year-old Molecular Genetics graduate student and research assistant. Fed up with her spinster aunts' relentless reminders and unsolicited advice regarding her Single Since Birth status, she designs a scientific, evidence-based methodology to find her a suitable partner in time for her cousin's wedding. As any good scientist knows, any valid experimental design requires a negative control. Enter the most unsuitable candidate for a potential boyfriend: the messy, easygoing, café owner Nero Sison. Her null hypothesis? Going out with Nero would establish her baseline data without catalyzing the chemical reaction she seeks.…
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"Kaya Rubio is focused on her research in molecular biology and doesn’t have time for anything else — until her overwhelming and loving family nudges her one time too many about being single. She devises a scientific methodology to find an ideal match in time for a family wedding, including selecting a negative control: Nero, owner of a local cafe, because he is the most unsuitable match she can think of. Of course, plans like that never work out as intended, and seeing Kaya’s brilliant mind try to sift scientific analysis out of emotional complication is the best part of this experiment."
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