In this heartwarming and whip-smart YA spin on The Rosie Project a teen girl is determined to
prove that love like all things should be scientifically quantified...right?Iris Oxtabee has
managed to navigate the tricky world of unspoken social interactions by reading everything from
neuroscience journals to Wikipedia articles. Science has helped her fit the puzzle pieces into
an understandable whole and she's sure there's nothing it can't explain. Love for example is
just chemistry.Her best friend Seth however believes love is one of life's beautiful and
chaotic mysteries without need for explanation. Iris isn't one to back down from a challenge
she's determined to prove love is really nothing more than hormones and external stimuli. After
all science has allowed humanity to understand more complex mysteries than that and Iris
excels at science.The perfect way to test her theory? Get the popular and newly single Theo
Grant who doesn't even know Iris exists to ask her to prom. With prom just two weeks away
Iris doesn't have any time to waste so she turns her keen empirical talents and laser-focus
attention to testing her theory.But will proving herself correct cause her friendship with
Seth-and the tantalizing possibility for something more-to become the failed experiment?
