02121cam a2200313 i 4500 838739042 TxAuBib 20230609120000.0 230525s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593638859 hc. 0593638859 hc. (OCoLC)1380361163 TxAuBib rda Hazelwood, Ali, author. Love, theoretically / Ali Hazelwood. New York : Berkley, [2023] ©2023. 389 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig--until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And he's the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job. Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but...those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she's with him? Will falling into an experimentalist's orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?"-- Provided by publisher. 20230609. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Physicists Fiction. College teachers Fiction. Escort services Fiction. Romance fiction.