Ali Hazelwood

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. 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.

Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody 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. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job.

Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?

Love, Theoretically

Sophia

I find that people like me better if they don't have to expend emotional energy on me.

Aimee :)

nanafark

He talks like his Saturday nights belong to me, even though this thing with us only just started, and my heart skips too many beats.

Maggie Hotmer

Emilia Vulliamy

His eyes close for a brief moment. When he opens them, stars are born. 

Maybe I'm not stumbling through someone else's life. Maybe I'm just living mine for the first time. 

Lisa Weidacher

and wonder why this man would even bother thinking of me. He’s figured out my entire game. I came to him empty handed.

Alice Perelta

"In my fantasies, you allow me to keen an eye on you." I feel his lips at my temple. "And when I really let go. I imagine that you let me take care of you, too. It does sound outlandish. "Why?" "Because in my head, no one has done it before."

ariah 

 Jack and I are antagonists. Insulin and glucagon. Rey and Kylo Ren. Galileo and the entire Catholic Church circa 1615

, I believe, includes Greg's dad, who stands silently next to her, popping three cubes of colby jack into his mouth with a vacant smile of someone who's been dissociating since 1999.

" My roommate staggers into the kitchen, wearing onesie pajamas and a Noam Chomsky sleep mask pulled up to her forehead. Also: swining a plastic baseball bat like a madwoman. "Leave now or I'll call 911! This is trespassing!"

 a felony! You will be arrested for battery! My cousin is taking the bar this year, and she will sue you for 

"Right. Yeah." I stop pacing. Massage my temples. "I have none."

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