Love, Theoretically

Elsie Hannaway, a theoretical physicist, has finally come to terms with her numerous lifetimes. In the aim of getting tenure, she works as an adjunct professor during the day, grading laboratories and instructing thermodynamics. On other days, Elsie uses her well developed people-pleasing abilities to represent whatever version of herself the client requires, making up for her nonexistent wage by providing her services as a pretend girlfriend.

To be honest, it's a really great gig—until her meticulously built Elsie-verse collapses. Because it turns out that the cold-hearted experimental physicist who destroyed her mentor's career and damaged the reputation of theorists worldwide is none other than Jack Smith, the very beautiful and brooding elder brother of her favorite customer. And the same Jack, who now occupies a position directly between Elsie and her ideal job on the MIT recruiting committee.

Elsie is ready for a full-scale academic sabotage battle, but those piercing, lengthy looks? Being yourself without having to pretend to be someone else while she's with him? Will she ever be tempted to implement her most cautious views about love after becoming caught up in the orbit of an experimentalist?