Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Themes:
Butch / Femme
Enemies to Lovers
Humor / Comedy
Married or Established Couple
Neurodiverse
Vacation / Travel
Heat Level:
Hot & Steamy (full, graphic description of sexual acts occurs and may include crude language)
Archetypes:
Student
Geographic Location:
United States
Setting:
Academic / School / University
Big City / Urban
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Queer
Femme
Protagonist Identity:
Black / African American
The Rules of Engagement
The Rulebooks Series, Book 2
By Cara Malone
A grad school rivalry turns into love, but will they make it through a summer apart?
Max and Ruby have fallen hard for each other after a bitter grad school rivalry turned first into lust, and then into love.
When the school year comes to an end, they’re faced with a new challenge: a summer apart.
They make plans to visit each other, but when Max comes to Chicago to meet Ruby’s family, she brings with her a secret in a small package – an engagement ring that she hopes will prove her devotion. There’s only one problem… Max has never been good at first impressions, and she fits into Ruby’s family like a square peg in a round hole.
Everything she says is wrong, Ruby’s perfect ex-girlfriend keeps coming around, and the city is exhausting. It even seems like Ruby is beginning to question whether she has what it takes to navigate life with a partner on the autism spectrum.
Is love enough to get them through the summer?