Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Themes:
Family Relationships
Nerdy / Geeky
Neurodiverse
Slow Burn
Sports
Workplace / Office Romance
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Athlete / Coach
Student
Teacher / Professor
Geographic Location:
United States: Pacific
Setting:
Academic / School / University
Sports Stadium / Gym
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Nonbinary / Gender Fluid
Queer
Trigger/Content Warning:
miscarriage
A Theory of Love
By Kate Christie
Sweet romance between a rugby player and a university professor
Eva DeMarco isn’t looking for a relationship. Fresh off a year’s family leave, she is hoping for a quiet return to her teaching and research career at Edmonds University, where she is still in search of the holy grail of tenure. Given that she has recently chucked her Serious Research Interest in the visual arts to study romance novels, she’s pretty sure her best bet is to skate under the radar of university higher-ups for the foreseeable future.
Cassidy Trane is only in Washington State for another few months. Soon she’ll be resuming her hipster lifestyle in San Francisco, making good money in the tech industry and cheering for her ex-teammates on the local pro rugby side. She certainly doesn’t intend to fall for an academic, especially not one at the university where her golden-boy twin brother literally teaches rocket science.
But as fate conspires to bring Cass and Eva together, they learn that sometimes plans have to be flexible—that is, if they want a chance at their very own Happily Ever After.