Love, Theoretically - printed edges - Ali Hazelwood

The double life of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway finally begins to overwhelm her. On the one hand, she works hard as an adjunct professor, grading her students' lab work and teaching thermodynamics in the hope of paying her rent. On the other, Elsie makes up for her ridiculously small paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, drawing on her carefully honed people-pleasing skills to become whichever version of herself her clients want.

To be fair, the job has its charms—until Elsie's carefully constructed universe starts to fall apart. That happens when Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and prickly brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the very same heartless experimental physicist who ruined her PhD advisor's career and damaged the reputation of theoretical physicists everywhere. Yes, the same Jack who now sits on MIT's hiring committee, standing between Elsie and her dream job.

Elsie is ready to wage all-out war on Jack, using every weapon academia puts at her disposal, but how can she resist his long, piercing looks? Could prolonged exposure to the universe of an experimental physicist finally tempt Elsie to put her most cautious theories about love into practice?