Love, Theoretically

 Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood (2023, 400 pages)

If you are looking for a spicy, sciencey romance, look no further. Ali Hazelwood creates adorable, funny characters in a classic enemies to lovers scenario full of physics jokes and puns.

Elsie is an up and coming theoretical physicist, always trying to please everyone. She's also a girlfriend-for-hire, supplementing her horrible academia pay with pretending to be whoever her fake date of the night needs. Jack is an established tenure professor of experimental physics with a grudge for theorists. And also her favorite fake-boyfriend's brother. He's obnoxious, pompous, protective, and oh so handsome. She doesn't even like blonds. But the way those heterochromatic eyes look at her...

Their worlds intertwine when Elsie applies for a tenure-track position at MIT, where Jack runs the physics institute. He can't stop looking at her, and she can't stop hating him. Right?