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Ali Hazelwood is the author of many beloved rom-coms, including The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. Her books always feature strong female leads, swoony love interests, and a variety of our favorite tropes. Hazelwood’s latest book is out this summer and if you’ve already got it on your TBR, we have some more recommendations for you.

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Elsie Hannaway has enough on her plate. She spends her days teaching, trying to earn tenure and her off days offering her services as the perfect fake girlfriend. Balancing her life would be manageable if not for rival physicist Jack Smith. While his reputation seeks to implode Elsie’s dream career, that longing gaze threatens all her ideas around love.

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To the Stars and Back by Camilla Isley

Christian Slade is Hollywood’s sexiest bachelor, and America’s favorite heartthrob. But off screen, he struggles letting anyone in. It seems that all the women who want to date him just want a piece of his glamorous life. Then he meets Lana. She’s a sweet, smart, and beautiful rocket scientist. Better yet, she has no idea who he is. But what happens when she finds out?

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Love and Other Brain Experiments by Hannah Brohm

Neuroscientist Dr. Frances Silberstein is determined to find success. After turning down a nepotism job from her brilliant boyfriend during grad school, she unfortunately has no job or personal life now in postdoc. Her best chance is a conference this summer full of leading scientists. Unfortunately it is being organized by her successful ex. Frances won’t back down though, because networking can save her career. That’s where Dr. Lewis North comes in. When people mistake their academic banter as flirting, Frances leans into it in a lapse of judgement. Though she is risking her career, fake dating might just help her. Everything spirals when Lewis has Frances questioning everything including the future she was chasing.

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The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

Single mom Jess Davis has stayed away from the dating scene for years, but when a new DNA-based matchmaking company starts receiving buzz, the reliability of numbers and data intrigues her. Her cynical side reappears, however, when the test gives her a 98 percent match with the company’s founder, Dr. River Peña. Jess already knows River and there is no way he’s her soulmate. The company offers to pay Jess to spend some time with River to increase publicity for their test, and as a single mom barely making ends meet, it’s an offer Jess can’t refuse. But as she spends more time with River, she starts to see a completely different side to him.

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Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek who has a close encounter with death. Tired of being “boring”, Chloe creates a list of seven directives to help her experience new things. But she’s no good at breaking the rules or being bad, so she enlists the help of her neighbor, Red Morgan. Red is a sexy handyman with a motorcycle and tattoos. He’s exactly who Chloe needs to help guide her in her rebellion. However, she soon starts to learn more about Red’s tough exterior, and why he’s hiding the real guy underneath.

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Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

Darcy is tired of her brother trying to play matchmaker. The latest blind date he set her up on was a disaster, but she lies and tells him it was great. Elle is an astrologer who dreams of finding her soulmate. She’s confident it’s not Darcy who is way too analytical and skeptical for Elle. So imagine her surprise when Darcy’s brother casually mentions to Elle how happy he is that she hit it off with his sister. Darcy begs Elle to go along with it and she agrees, but only if Darcy also helps Elle navigate her family during the holidays. As the fake relationship progresses, they both start to develop real feelings which begs the question: do opposites really attract?

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An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister

Sadie Shaw and Jonah Fisher became rivals the second they met as undergrads thirteen years ago. Their rivalry has only grown now that a coveted literature teaching position is available and they both want it for different reasons. Jonah needs the job so that he can be closer to his recently divorced sister and his nieces and nephews, but Sadie needs the job for the financial security and freedom of full-time teaching. Sadie notices a loophole that could help them both–the job offers partner hire. If they are legally married, they can both be hired. It seems like the perfect solution, but when sparks start to fly, Sadie and Jonah might get more than the job they bargained for. 

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Her Knight at the Museum by Byrn Donovan

Emily Porter, a museum conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago, is starting to think true love does not exist, and after her divorce, she is certain of it. Now it is just her and the statues she is restoring. Little did she know one of these statues, a medieval knight in a suit of armor, is a real knight, frozen in time by a curse. Now awake, Sir Griffin looks to Emily for guidance in today’s world, and with all his chivalrous deeds and affection, Emily is feeling her defenses fall. However, Sir Griffin is confused by life in the modern world and impatient in his understanding, and Emily is suspect number one for a missing sculpture investigation. Will the mismatched pair be able to build a relationship separated by time, or will the knight ride off on his steed alone?

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A Brush With Love by Mazey Eddings

While waiting for placement into a top oral surgery residency program, Harper meets Dan. Dan is a first-year dental student struggling to keep up with a family legacy. Although he’s falling for her, Harper wants zero distractions, so the two decide to stick to being friends. But as time passes, Harper’s feelings start to change. She has no problems with blood and gore, but the concept of falling in love terrifies her. Harper can’t risk undoing everything she has carefully built up, but she also can’t imagine saying goodbye to Dan.

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The Love Algorithm by Camilla Isley

Reese has put her career first for a long time, but it has worked out for her. At 28, she has her PH.D and a position as the head of Research and Development at Mercer Robotics. She might not have many personal relationships, but she has her team. One day, she’s called into her boss’s office and assigned to look after his son for a rotation in her lab. She’s not excited to be playing babysitter to someone that has no experience in mechanical engineering. When the tall, blond, and beautiful Thomas shows up, Reese realizes this is going to be harder than she expected. The CEO’s son is on track to be her boss one day so he is so off limits, but Reese might just be falling for his charm. 

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If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane

The fake relationship was just a way to give both Laurie and Jamie a leg up at their law firm. Laurie is humiliated after her long-term boyfriend, and co-worker, breaks up with her and soon announces that his new girlfriend is pregnant. Jamie needs a respectable relationship to impress their bosses. They play the fauxmance out on social media with strategic photos and dates. It was perfect and it was working. But the lines between fiction and reality slowly start to blur. What happens then?

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The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

Rhiannon changed the digital dating game with her app, but in real life she’s cynical about love. She focuses on her career and the occasional hookup. She’s taken by surprise when the seemingly sweet, ex-football player Samson Lima woos her one magical night. But after that one night, he disappears. Months later, Samson reappears, and he’s working with one of Rhiannon’s business rivals. He swears he won’t mess up their second chance, but she’s unsure if this is worth the risk. A physical relationship is one thing, but giving away her heart is entirely different.

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Fossil Feud by Maggie North

After her ex-boyfriend stole her work, paleontologist Ripley Adams has spent the last three years in academic exile. Now she is on the brink of uncovering fossil treasure. If her newest discovery turns out to be a full specimen linking dinosaurs and birds, Ripley will be able to restore her ruined reputation. Then attractive Oxford professor James Smithson shows up needing Ripley’s help to prove a new fossil is a fraud. She wants nothing to do with him, but the fake fossil is similar to hers and the potential fraudster is her thieving ex. Ripley and James must find a way to get along if they are going to uncover lies big enough to ruin them both. As they dig deeper, they uncover an unlikely attraction.

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Some Kind of Magic by Mary Ann Marlowe

When biochemist Eden Sinclair leaves the lab one night, she spritzes a new scent on herself not knowing that it is designed to enhance pheromones. She also doesn’t know that the guy she meets later that night is Adam Copeland—international rock god. By the time she learns the truth, Eden has already spent an incredible night with Adam. Suddenly she’s dating a celebrity instead of going on disastrous dates set up by her mother. But she can’t bear to tell Adam that his attraction to her might just be a result of science. She has to ditch the perfume and find out if the feelings between them really are mutual.

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