Icebreaker

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new steamy, STEMinist novella… A scientist should never cohabitate with her annoyingly hot nemesis—it leads to combustion. Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn…   As an environmental engineer, Mara knows all about the delicate nature of ecosystems. They require balance. And leaving the thermostat alone. And not stealing someone else’s food. And other rules Liam, her detestable big-oil lawyer of a roommate, knows nothing about. Okay, sure, technically she’s the interloper. Liam was already entrenched in his aunt’s house like some glowering grumpy giant when Mara moved in, with his big muscles...

Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones's Diary in this laugh-out-loud funny and irresistible debut novel in diary form about the pursuit of love, surviving one's thirties intact, and the endless tug-of-war between pleasing one's family and pleasing oneself. Andrea Tang seems to have it all: an enviable job as a high-profile lawyer at one of Singapore's most esteemed firms, a swanky apartment, and the best friends a woman could ask for. According to her mother and her Auntie Wei Wei, Tang family matriarch and holder of the purse strings to a sizeable fortune, that leaves just one thing missing: a husband. After all, at thirty-three, she's not getting any younger. When Andrea discovers that even Auntie Wei Wei's notoriously unattached daughter has gotten engaged, she realizes she's become what she fears the most: the Last Tang Standing, lone singleton in a sea of married Tangs. Andrea might be an independent career woman who doesn't need a man to buy her...

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