Not in Love

Written in 2024, Not in Love is Ali Hazelwood’s fifth contemporary adult romance novel and follows the contradictory interactions of Rue, a brilliant but socially awkward engineer, and Eli, a cofounder of the private equity firm that is trying to take over Kline, the company that employs Rue. Although the two are attracted to each other, Rue feels that indulging in a romantic relationship with Eli is tantamount to showing disloyalty to Kline’s CEO, Florence, who has been her friend and mentor for years. As they teach each other how to love, both Rue and Eli ultimately learn that an honest relationship must be founded on genuine loyalty.

In addition to penning Not in Love, Ali Hazelwood has also written a young adult romance and several novellas. Because she is a professor in the field of neuroscience, all of her adult romances feature characters who are immersed in STEM-related fields, and each story illustrates a different angle on the common conflicts that arise in such male-dominated spaces. Two of her previous novels, The Love Hypothesis and Love, Theoretically, became New York Times Best Sellers, and The Love Hypothesis is currently being adapted for film by Bisous Pictures.