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It's Just Business

by Zainab Alhalwachi

Research funding, family, and Ramadan nights

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Research funding, family, and Ramadan nights

Molecular biology PhD student Noor Saeed returns from Massachusetts to Dubai during Ramadan, hoping to secure funding for a research institute. Her proposal brings her into negotiations with venture capitalist Khalid, while a time-limited pitch and Noor’s efforts to gain more time complicate the business at hand. The setup connects a professional goal—building a research facility—with family involvement and the possibility of a relationship developing between Noor and Khalid. Dubai and Ramadan provide the setting for this contemporary romance, whose central tension rests on balancing an ambitious research plan with personal feelings.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary romance involving a scientist and a venture capitalist.
  • Readers who enjoy stories set in Dubai during Ramadan.
  • Readers looking for romance alongside a research-funding and business premise.

Themes

Romance and professional ambitionScientific research and entrepreneurshipFamily involvementRamadan and belonging

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Book overview

For fans of Ali Hazelwood's STEMinist romances...a molecular biology PhD student has only one month to convince a VC from Dubai to fund her research institute but realizes their relationship may be more than just business...

Leaving the chilly labs of Massachusetts, molecular biologist Noor Saeed is heading home. She'll be in Dubai for Ramadan and to meet HighRise, a business incubator open to building Noor's state-of-the-art research facility.

Noor needs to do just one thing: convince one of HighRise's partners, Khalid-a ridiculously handsome and whip-smart venture capitalist-that her lab will be able to pay back what it costs to build.

When she's given only a few days to make her case, Noor enlists her friends to trick Khalid into buying herself more time. But with meddling cousins and Khalid's kindness messing up her plans, Noor's Ramadan nights are slipping by fast...and maybe so is her heart.

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