Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

Not in Love is a 2024 contemporary romance novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood.

While Hazelwood is famous for her "STEMinist" romantic comedies like The Love Hypothesis, this book marks a distinct shift in her writing. It leans heavily away from standard rom-com fluff and dives straight into a high-steam, emotionally intense erotic romance. It still retains her signature science background, this time exploring corporate espionage and intellectual property theft within the field of biotech food science.

The story follows Dr. Rue Siebert, a brilliant, logic-driven, and socially guarded biotech engineer working at a promising food science startup called Kline. Having grown up experiencing severe childhood poverty and food insecurity, Rue fiercely prizes the professional and financial stability she has fought so hard to achieve.

Her structured world is thrown into absolute chaos when a private equity firm called the Harkness Group initiates a hostile takeover of Kline. To Rue's absolute shock, one of the primary partners leading the takeover is Eli Killgore—a man she matched with on a sex-forward dating app just the night before, nearly bringing him home before backing out due to her strict "no repeats/no attachments" rule.

Suddenly, Rue and Eli find themselves on opposite sides of a high-stakes corporate war. Eli and his partners are determined to buy out Kline, while Rue feels fiercely protective of her job and deeply loyal to her boss and longtime mentor, Florence Kline.

Despite the corporate conflict and the absolute taboo of mixing business with pleasure, the explosive physical attraction between Rue and Eli proves impossible to fight. They agree to a secret, no-strings-attached affair with a built-in expiration date: the day the corporate deal is finalized. But as their physical relationship deepens, they begin swapping their deepest childhood traumas, forcing Rue to confront her fear of emotional intimacy just as massive, dark secrets about the true ownership of Kline's technology begin to unravel.

Language: English.

Genre: Romance.

Binding: সেলাই করা বাইন্ডিং

Quality: Premium Quality Books.

Printing: High Quality Printing.

Paper: Eye Friendly paper (Cream White)

Cover: Matt cover (Paperback).