Ali Hazelwood

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new steamy, STEMinist novella…

It will take the frosty terrain of the Arctic to show these rival scientists that their chemistry burns hot.

Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn…
 
Hannah’s got a bad feeling about this. Not only has the NASA aerospace engineer found herself injured and stranded at a remote Arctic research station—but the one person willing to undertake the hazardous rescue mission is her longtime rival.
 
Ian has been many things to Hannah: the villain who tried to veto her expedition and ruin her career, the man who stars in her most deliciously lurid dreams…but he’s never played the hero. So why is he risking everything to be here? And why does his presence seem just as dangerous to her heart as the coming snowstorm?
 
To read Mara and Sadie’s stories look for the novellas Under One Roof and Stuck with You available now from Berkley!

Below Zero

nanafark

He’s still staring at me. Like he’s found his long-missing house keys and is afraid he’ll lose them again if he looks away.

Sophia

Proud moment, I know one out of four programming languages mentioned here. 

Keira 💫

The section is in C++. Which happens to be the very first language I taught myself back in high school, when every single Google search for “Skills + Necessary + NASA” led to the sad result of “Programming.” Python came after. Then SQL. Then HAL/S. For each language, I started out convinced that chewing on glass would surely be preferable. Then, at some point along the way, I began thinking in terms of functions, variables, conditional loops. A little after that, reading code became a bit like inspecting the label on the back of the conditioner bottle while showering: not particularly fun, but overall easy. I do have some talents, apparently.

“Guys,” I tell them, shaking my head, “maybe I was wrong in approving of your relationships. Maybe you can do better.”

			Mara snorts. “Excuse me? Is that a slice of pepperoni on Ian’s shirt?”

			Sadie clears her throat. “Hey, guys, it’s great that you’re having fun, but we should really get going if we want to make our flights—”

			They groan in a chorus. Like ten-year-olds asked to clean their rooms.

			“I just . . . can’t believe they actually like each other,” Mara says, befuddled.

			Sadie nods. “I don’t know how I feel about this. Seems . . . dangerous?”

			I cover my mouth to muffle my laughter.”

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Julia <3

but he apparently has no idea that he could be fancast to play the hot Weasley brother.

Caring what others think is a lot of work, and—with a handful of exceptions—I’m not a huge fan of work.

“It’s . . . uncommon. For me. To like someone this much.”

“I like you, too.” I shrug. “Shouldn’t we hang out, then? Isn’t that good enough?”

He looks away. Down, to his shoes. “If I spend more time with you, I’m only going to like you more.”

“Nah.” I snort. “That’s not the way it usually works.”

Hot Guy, Ginger, Massive. I saw about four people check him out on our way here, but he apparently has no idea that he could be fancast to play the hot Weasley brother. Absolutely zero awareness of how glorious he is.

Okay. This is no first kiss. This is a fucking 

missed opportunities! yes, you are an idiot Hannah, dear!

I stuff my hands in my pockets while my body is still thrumming with what I left behind, and wander slowly back to the Caltech campus, thinking about red hair and missed opportunities.

Because being honest with them would first require me to be honest with myself, and I’m too angry, tired, disappointed for that.

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