LOVE, THEORETICALLY

"The reigning queen of STEM romance."u2014The Washington PostnnAn Indie Next and Library Reads Pick!nnRival 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.n nThe many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, sheu2019s 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 non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.n nHonestly, itu2019s a pretty sweet gigu2014until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentoru2019s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And heu2019s the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job.n nElsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage butu2026those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when sheu2019s with him? Will falling into an experimentalistu2019s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?