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The reigning queen of STEM romanceThe Washington Post

Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her By day shes an adjunct professor toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure By other day Elsie makes up for her nonexistent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend tapping into her expertly honed peoplepleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs

Honestly its a pretty sweet giguntil her carefully constructed Elsieverse comes crashing down Because Jack Smith the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client turns out to be the coldhearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentors career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere And hes the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT standing right between Elsie and her dream job

Elsie is prepared for an allout war of scholarly sabotage butthose long penetrating looks Not having to be anything other than her true self when shes with him Will falling into an experimentalists orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice