When a hyper-observant college outcast takes a bribe from a popular frat jock to emotionally manipulate a girl, his ability gives him status, connection, and access to a world he's never belonged to until he falls for her and the deception costs him everything. 

SYNOPSIS:

Patterns of Attraction follows Weston “Wes” Sterling, a socially isolated college student whose extraordinary ability to read human behavior gives him insight—but no belonging. When James Conway, the campus’s celebrated quarterback, discovers Wes’s talent, he doesn’t befriend him—he recruits him. James offers Wes money, access, and social acceptance in exchange for using his skills to help James manipulate Lexi Wright, a kind, emotionally grounded cheerleader James wants for his own ego and status. For Wes, the offer is intoxicating: finally, he’s needed.

But as Wes studies Lexi to help James “win” her, something goes wrong. Lexi isn’t a puzzle or a conquest—she’s genuine, empathetic, and emotionally present in ways Wes has never experienced. The more Wes observes her, the more he falls for her himself, creating a devastating contradiction: the girl who makes him feel human is the same girl he’s betraying. Trapped between his hunger for acceptance and his growing love for Lexi, Wes continues the lie, telling himself he’s in control even as his moral ground collapses beneath him.

When James’s greed and entitlement finally expose the truth, the damage is immediate and irreversible. Wes loses Lexi not because he lacked feelings—but because he sacrificed integrity for belonging. Stripped of both his analytical certainty and the connection he longed for, Wes is left to confront the central truth of his gift: seeing people clearly means nothing if you don’t choose to treat them ethically. Patterns of Attraction is a raw, dramatic exploration of manipulation, loneliness, and the devastating cost of choosing acceptance over doing what’s right.

PATTERNS OF ATTRACTION