A young software developer is unwittingly entered into a TV dating show, where a mystery celebrity will choose her off screen romance from a pool of 'regular guys'.

This is an AU story. Chuck Bartowski is gifted in special ways that have kept him isolated from normal life. To add to his feelings of isolation, his gifts come at a price. He wants a normal life. Now, Chuck is a new student at Stanford. He meets a fellow student, Sarah Walker, who has her own issues. Will their lives be anything like normal?

It's July 15th, 2022, and Sarah Walker has finally scored her dream job—working with dolphins at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Socially awkward and academically driven, Sarah's never found love—but when she meets a tech genius whose inventions can make her research a reality, she starts falling for him. Their work could change the world...unless someone else gets hold of it first.

Sarah has left her LAPD job, working as a private investigator in the hopes it provides her with less dangerous stakes and a schedule she can control so that she can handle her most important job, raising her toddler. But when the single parent thinks her computer might've been targeted by a criminal, she must request help from the unlikeliest of sources: The Buy More Nerd Herd.