The Love Hypothesis

Third-year Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships—but she does believe in science. To convince her best friend that she is happily moving on, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man happens to be Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor and well-known "academic tyrant."

When Adam agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend, Olive’s little white lie turns into a high-stakes experiment. Between the pressure of research and the shadows of a cutthroat department, they find that the only thing more complicated than a lab trial is a matter of the heart.

Ali Hazelwood delivers a witty, sharp, and deeply romantic story that proves some hypotheses are meant to be proven wrong.