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Volatile Compounds: Inhale
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 19 2026
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The signal is real. The decision is yours. The science works. The people don't.
What if attraction wasn't a mystery-but a measurable signal?
When a biotech startup called ScentSync claims it can match people using the chemistry of their immune systems, the promise is simple: find the person your body already knows is right.
Marcus Walsh doesn't trust his own instincts anymore. After years of studying how people make decisions-and failing to make the right ones himself-he agrees to try the system. His result is definitive: a 94.7% match with a stranger named Elena.
Elena Vasquez believes in evidence. A nurse trained to trust procedure over feeling, she follows the science carefully. When she meets Marcus, what happens between them feels immediate, undeniable-and deeply unsettling. Because this time, certainty comes with a number.
At ScentSync, founder Maya Chen watches her company explode overnight. The science works. The matches are real. But beneath the system, a flaw emerges-one that calls into question not the attraction itself, but everything built on top of it.
As the company unravels, Marcus and Elena are left with a question no algorithm can answer:
If something feels real... does it matter how it started?
Volatile Compounds is a sharp, intimate novel about love, technology, and the fragile line between what we feel and what we're told to feel.
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