Olive Smith needs her best friend to believe she is dating someone, and the nearest available person is the professor with the worst reputation in the department.
Ali Hazelwood sets her romance inside a university science programme, where funding, supervision and reputation all press on the central pair. The fake-relationship premise gives the book its comedy, and the imbalance between a doctoral candidate and a senior academic gives it friction. Banter carries the early chapters, and the slow-burn turn arrives once both characters stop performing for an audience.
Details that matter:
• A STEM academic setting drawn from lab schedules, conferences and grant pressure
• Fake dating handled as comedy first and emotional cover second
• A heroine whose career ambitions stay central to the plot
• Hachette edition of Hazelwood's debut novel
For readers of contemporary rom-com and campus romance, published by Hachette and available at Boipoka.
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