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Crushing on You

by Sara Breaker

A holiday romance built around a theory of love

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A holiday romance built around a theory of love

Ingrid Harmon approaches romance as a research problem: the driven Ph.D. candidate has developed a theory about getting over someone, then returns home to test it against her long-standing crush, Connell Matthews. Their reunion brings her carefully planned study into contact with the feelings and assumptions she is trying to analyze. Set against Ingrid’s academic ambitions and a holiday romance framework, the novel pairs questions about attraction with a second-chance connection to someone from her high-school past. It opens Sara Breaker’s Hale Valley Sweet Romance series.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in holiday romance
  • Readers who enjoy stories involving academic ambitions and romantic self-discovery
  • Fans of reunion romances centered on a former crush

Themes

Love and attractionRomantic expectationsAcademic ambitionReconnecting with a past crush

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Book overview

A pragmatic grad student must decide what's real. Her robust and comprehensively analyzed theory on "love." Or what's staring her right in the face.

 

Driven, competitive, and single-minded Ph.D. candidate Ingrid Harmon can help you get over him.

 

Using the best scientific methodologies, her latest paper provides a comprehensive analysis to explain how you most likely never even really liked him to begin with.

 

Who cares if her condescending soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend kicks her off the most important sociology dissertation of her life because he thinks her revolutionary ideas are too fluffy?

 

She can just return home to do her own study and get all her answers. Nothing can stop her.

 

Until she needs to test her theories on Connell Matthews, her very first and biggest, stupidest crush ever. It doesn't help that Connell has grown hotter in the last seven years or that maybe he's no longer the immature playboy jock from high school.

 

But Ingrid is not an insecure sixteen-year-old nerd anymore either. Surely, she would have no problems staying focused to complete her paper, right...?

 

Will Ingrid's theory fall flat on its face or will her experiment fail...successfully?

 

It's "Carrie Pilby" meets "Sixteen Candles" with this offbeat, quirky, opposites attract holiday romance.

 

Crushing on You is Book 1 in Sara Breaker's new Hale Valley Sweet Romance series. Simple, sweet stories and all the happy endings.

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