Logline: A 60,000-word contemporary character study about a hyper-analytical mind trying to reduce human connection to logic, math, and evolutionary biology.

Perfect For: Readers who love unreliable narrators, specifically with the profound emotional blindness and denial of Stevens the butler in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, mixed with the hyper-rigid, deadpan worldview of an introverted Dwight Schrute or a young, athletic Doc Martin. It will appeal to fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, but with a masculine, aggressive sensibility driven by a worldview based on competition, intellectual metaphors, and internal contradictions.

Synopsis:

I don’t know what the deal is with “feelings.”

Amy was my friend and study partner and then she started talking about "feelings" and got mad at me for some reason.

Not that I care.

Even if she is smart. And beautiful. And her broad smile pushes up her cheekbones and shows just the hint of a dimple. I don’t notice those things. And they don't matter.

Because I've done the research. I’ve cracked the code. Sure, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem says that a system can never guarantee it isn't broken, and that there will always be truths a manual can't reach. But Kurt Gödel was no expert in relationships.

Unlike me.

I’ve boiled human interactions down to algorithms and logic. And you know what? It works. Before this is through, I’ll take this city by storm, mingle in high society, and have everything a man could ever want. And maybe if Amy notices, that might be okay. But maybe not. It’s not like I care.

What could go wrong?

What Reviewers Need to Know About the Narrator (Adam Fraser):

• A Study in Rigid Defenses: To escape a chaotic childhood, Adam anchors his life in strict structures: a math PhD program, traditional Catholicism, and intense weightlifting.
• The Fiction of Logic: Adam views human interaction as an equation to be solved. He models his self-improvement after the mating displays of the blue-footed booby and catalogs meticulous "mental notes" on social faux pas—all while remaining in massive, vigorous denial about his feelings.
• Intellectual Metaphors: Adam uses Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the Book of Ecclesiastes as a framework to protect his controlled world from change, decay, and the unpredictability of human connection.
• High-Intellect, Low-Awareness Comedy: To be helpful, Adam informs a woman on a blind date that "he's not a serial killer", though sometimes people assume he is. He studies romantic comedies like scientific texts. He eventually navigates high-society galas with the confidence and obliviousness of Peter Sellers' Chauncey Gardiner in Being There.