Elliot hides an extraordinary scientific mind behind the unassuming facade of a demoted campus administrator. Stripped of his student council post and mocked for his weak pheromone tier, he keeps his breakthrough discoveries strictly anonymous. His fragile routine shatters when Arian, the domineering top student who once broke his pride, returns to Ashford with a volatile biology he cannot regulate alone.
Cornered by campus politics and stolen research, Elliot agrees to a counterfeit courtship to soothe Arian's erratic hormonal flare-ups in exchange for physical protection. As fraudulent affection dissolves into possessive obsession, the pair uncovers a sinister shadow council manipulating societal biology. Elliot must risk his heart to dismantle the institutional caste system once and for all.
