About This Book
Bee Königswasser would do anything for her career — even co-lead a NASA neuroengineering project with the man who, as far as she's concerned, has despised her since grad school. What unfolds is less a love story than a slow dismantling of assumptions: about who your enemies really are, about what professional ambition costs you emotionally, and about how thoroughly a person can surprise you when the stakes are high enough. Ali Hazelwood wraps genuine tension — career pressure, institutional sexism, a mystery threatening to derail the whole project — inside a romance that earns its warmth rather than assuming it.
Hazelwood writes with the kind of voice that makes 368 pages feel effortless: witty without trying, emotionally precise without being heavy. Bee's inner monologue is the engine here — self-deprecating, nerdy, and sharper than she gives herself credit for — and it makes the slow-burn romantic tension genuinely funny rather than frustrating. The STEM setting is specific enough to feel lived-in without ever becoming a lecture. Readers who want romance with actual wit and a heroine whose professional ambitions are taken as seriously as her feelings will find this one hard to put down.
