Elsie has many faces; she dons a new one for every person she meets. The problem is that she wears them so often that she has forgotten who she is. In order to scrape by as an adjunct physics professor, she works as a fake girlfriend. Her people pleasing skills are perfect.

Things are going great until she has the interview of a lifetime, and one of her fake boyfriends’ brothers is on the hiring committee. He is also the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and reputation.

As the interview process continues, sparks begin to fly. When he calls her on her fake personas, she wonders if she can be her true self around him.

I love Ali Hazlewood and I think that every book she writes is better than the last. Ali Hazlewood is my favorite women in STEM author. She takes male dominated fields and inserts exceptional women into them. She portrays accuracies of the professions that only someone with experience in a like field could possess. The women are not without flaw, they are utterly relatable in the best possible way. I love how the women are so closed off because of the adversity they have faced, but they learn to let others in.

In true Ali fashion this one does have spice, and it’s fantastic, it just takes a while to present. But the wait is so full of sexual tension that it makes you want it so much and when you get it – it’s glorious.

The narrator, Therese Plummer, does a fantastic job with this book. She really brought Elsie to life and did a great job.

You won’t want to miss this one out June 13th.

Thank you @PRHAudio for this ALC copy of one of my most anticipated reads of 2023 in exchange for an honest review. I can’t say enough good things.