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The Love Hypothesis

by Ali Hazelwood

A lab-built cover story turns personal

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A lab-built cover story turns personal

Olive Smith, a biology Ph.D. candidate skeptical of lasting relationships, stages a romance to reassure her best friend. Her improvised plan brings her into a fake relationship with Adam Carlsen, a professor whose reputation makes his agreement unexpected. The setup links romantic comedy conventions with the pressures of academic science: a conference threatens Olive’s career, while the arrangement complicates her theories about love. The novel’s central contrast is between treating romance as something to test and measure and confronting feelings that resist that kind of control.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy fake-dating romance plots and romantic comedy.
  • Readers interested in romance set among scientists and academic pressures.
  • Readers seeking a relationship story centered on skepticism about lasting love.

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Fake datingRomantic love and skepticismAcademic science and career pressureControl and uncertainty

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When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.


As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.

That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding...six-pack abs.

Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.
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