The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood, 2021
To convince her best friend she is over a crush, a graduate student kisses a stranger in a lab hallway — who turns out to be the most feared professor in her department.
Ali Hazelwood
Ali Hazelwood writes women in science and engineering who are very good at their work and less sure of themselves elsewhere, and the men who turn out to be paying closer attention than anyone expected. Start with «The Love Hypothesis», the fake-dating lab romance that set the pattern, or with «Love, Theoretically», where a theoretical physicist moonlighting as a fake girlfriend meets someone who sees through her. Both keep the stakes close to the desk and the heart, with banter that carries the story and science that feels lived in rather than pasted on.
Feels like love, longing and tenderness.
Start with The Love Hypothesis.
Ali Hazelwood is a neuroscience professor; this novel began as Reylo Star Wars fan fiction before she rewrote it with original characters.
The moment a performance quietly stops being one, and nobody says a word.
Then that agonizingly slow moment went by, and the kiss became . . . different. The man inhaled sharply and inclined his head a tiny bit, making Olive feel less like a squirrel monkey climbing a baobab tree, and his hands-which were large and pleasantly warm in the AC of the hallway-closed around her waist. They slid up a few inches, coming to wrap around Olive’s rib cage and holding her to himself. Not too close, and not too far. Books by Ali Hazelwood
Bride
Ali Hazelwood, 2024
A Vampyre raised among Humans is summoned home and offered up as a bride to a Werewolf alpha. Fangs, snark, and a very reluctant alliance.
Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood, 2023
A theoretical physicist pays her student loans by working as a professional fake girlfriend, then meets the one person who seems to see through every version of her.
Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood, 2022
A neuroscientist lands her dream NASA project and finds her grad-school nemesis is co-leading it. Enemies, engineering, and a narrator with a stand-up's timing.
Check & Mate
Ali Hazelwood, 2023
A nineteen-year-old former chess prodigy, broke and swearing off the game, gets dragged back to a board—and into the orbit of the world champion she once watched on her phone.
Problematic Summer Romance
Ali Hazelwood, 2025
A sharp, aching summer romance about wanting someone past reason—and the messy work of building a life you actually chose.
Not in Love
Ali Hazelwood, 2024
A prickly biotech engineer and the man who once betrayed her collide over a secret project—and a no-strings affair that refuses to stay casual.
Mate
Ali Hazelwood, 2024
A human woman is drawn into a werewolf pack’s politics and a mate bond she never asked for—sharp banter, dangerous loyalty, and a romance with teeth.
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