She is psychic in the sense that whenever she touches someone or an object of personal significance to them she is overwhelmed by a "fractal" representing the conflicts, turmoil, and sorrow in that person's life. In other words, she "feels their pain". Consequently, she generally avoids touching people or their things.

However, she does like touching other people's calculators. She can just hold a classmate's TI-84 for a few moments and she immediately knows the causes of their difficulties in mathematics. This makes her an excellent math tutor.

And she does love math. She lists "solving the Riemann hypothesis" as something she hopes to do. (In fact, she lists it along with running a six-minute mile and picking up things with her toes as something she can achieve while "looking pretty" is something she thinks she can't.) She distracts herself by skipping over prime-numbered squares in the sidewalk. She is named "Eva" after Evariste Galois (and so it is pronounced the way that a New Yorker would say the word "ever"). She tells some groan-worthy math jokes. And mathematics even inserts itself when she is making out with her boyfriend:

"Hold it. How is she touching him?," you may ask. "I thought she couldn't touch anyone without being overwhelmed by their fractal!"

That's the thing. There is this one (cute) boy named Zenn who comes to her for tutoring whom her powers cannot read. His calculator tells her nothing. She can touch him and nothing happens, at least nothing besides what usually happens when teenagers touch. Moreover, he knows enough about math to get jokes about his name and Venn diagrams. (See the book title and the cover illustration shown above.) Zenn even paints pictures that look remarkably like fractals (although he doesn't know who Benoit Mandelbrot was). And then, there is one more big thing that Eva and Zenn have in common. Unfortunately, it is something that might keep them apart rather than bring them together...

I'm a middle-aged man, definitely not the target demographic for this book. But, I thought it was readable and enjoyable. So, if a YA romance featuring a psychic math nerd sounds like your cup of tea, I recommend you give this novel a try.