Title: Not In Love

Author: Ali Hazelwood

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science.

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down.

Eli Killgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through – and he’s a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can’t stop thinking about. The woman who’s off-limits to him.

Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business – one that plays for keeps.

A scientist and a financier walk into a hotel lobby….

No this isn’t the start of a joke ala the 80s, it’s the 2 main characters from Ali Hazelwood’s new book!

Rue and Eli, both with past issues that bleed into present, meet. They should be enemies as Eli is part of the hostile takeover on the company Rue works for…..or is there something we (and Rue) don’t know?!

I really liked Eli. He actually was very sweet and he was obsessed with Rue from the get go and I loved that!

‘I would do this a million more times. I would spend a million more hours like this. With you.’

It was Rue I didn’t gel with. I didn’t dislike her, she was just meh. And let me tell you my opinion got me hate in my book group!

I found this book darker and a bit more saucier than her others and I was totally here for that!