Author: Ali Hazelwood
Year published: 2024
Category: Adult fiction (romance)
Pages: 394 pages
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Location: (my 2025 Google Reading map): USA (TX)
Summary: A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science—from New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood.
Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.
Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through—and he’s a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can’t stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him.
Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business—one that plays for keeps.
Review: I was having a tough time navigating a long nonfiction book, so I needed something that would be a quick and easy read. I did not think I was going to get downright detailed sex scenes (that's a warning for those of you who don't want to read them).
I like that Hazelwood's female characters are always smart scientists. Add in a little forbidden love, really good sex scenes, and Rue, who is probably neurodivergent, and you have a winning contemporary romance.
The one problem I have with all contemporary heterosexual romances, is that the male love interest ALWAYS comes to the woman's rescue. Or offers to. As if the highly intelligent woman is incapable of doing things for herself.
However, I really do enjoy Hazelwood's novels. I know what I'm getting (including a happily ever after) and her writing is fun.
Challenges for which this counts:
- Alphabet (Title)--N
- Cover Love--Something you would find in a hospital (test tubes)
- Diversity--Neurodivergent main character
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