Book profile
Problematic Summer Romance
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2025
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Why these tropes fit
Maya Killgore, a 23-year-old grad student, is drawn to Conor Harkness, her brother's 38-year-old best friend and a successful biotech professional. Despite the imbalanced power dynamic and Conor's insistence that she stay out of his life, they are forced together when Maya's brother's destination wedding in Taormina traps them in a Sicilian villa for over a week. Amid the coastal setting and wedding chaos, Maya discovers Conor may be hiding something from her and decides to pursue a problematic summer fling.
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- Age Gap: “older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student” source
- Brother's Best Friend: “brother's best friend and the girl he never even knew existed” source
- Forbidden Love: “Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life.” source
- Grumpy x Sunshine: “As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced” source
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