By Ali Hazelwood.
There’s nothing better than a well-written, engaging romance to keep me sane while hiding indoors from the heatwaves suffocating my Texas neighborhood. And this book delivered—with likable main characters, impossible situations, mixed signals, and tender moments that carried me along (like the twisty water slides at Typhoon Texas) until the all-too-soon, very satisfying, end.
For myriad reasons, biology grad student Olive Smith needs to prove to her best friend Anh that she’s dating someone new. And nothing would be more convincing than Anh seeing her kiss this new guy she’s dating. The caveat? There isn’t any new guy. So Olive improvises and kisses a stranger in front of Anh. The problem? The stranger turns out to be Adam Carlsen, the biology department’s young, handsome (and grouchy) professor with a reputation for being tough on his grad students.
Adam agrees to keep Olive’s secret and play the role of fake boyfriend. Being seen in a “relationship,” he says, would help him overcome some research funding issues he’s having with the university. But things quickly become complicated as Olive and Adam strive to make their romance convincing and keep the phony aspect of it a secret. But the real kicker? Olive is keeping another secret—that her fake feelings for Adam aren’t fake after all.
(Published in 2021 by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.)
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