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Love, Theoretically
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2023-06-13
- Rating
- ★ 4.1 · 686 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway juggles an underpaid adjunct professorship with a side gig as a fake girlfriend for hire, using her people-pleasing skills to become whoever clients need. Her dual life unravels when Jack Smith—the arrogant, cold-hearted experimental physicist who destroyed her mentor's career and now controls the MIT physics department blocking her dream tenure-track job—turns out to be the older brother of her favorite client. Bracing for scholarly sabotage, Elsie instead finds herself disarmed by Jack's long looks and the freedom of being her unguarded self around him, forcing her to test her own long-held theories on love against the rival theorist in her orbit.
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- Fake Dating: “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.” source
- Enemies to Lovers: “the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere” source
- Rivals to Lovers: “Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds” source
- Workplace Romance: “he's the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job” source
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