LOVE & OTHER PRIMARY SOURCES

LOVE AND OTHER PRIMARY SOURCES is a late Millennial contemporary romance perfect for anyone who loves Jodi McAlister’s AN ACADEMIC AFFAIR and Tessa Bailey’s UNINTENTIONALLY YOURS.

Ten years ago, Emma’s ex stole her dissertation research and dreams of a charmed life in academia. Now, she’s staging her comeback with a partially written book on Victorian feminism and erotica that will surely earn her tenure, but can’t finish without checking two inaccessible historic sources. The most valuable of which is held by the family of Aidan, her former best friend.

Aidan, Duke of Newberry and heir to a mysterious collection of Victorian erotica, is in a maudlin snit on the eve of his fortieth birthday. He’s been fired from his position at Oxford and a codicil to his parents’ Will requires him to marry to reclaim his inheritance from his uncle. From his fainting couch, he starts a search for Emma—the woman he’s secretly been pining for.

When the fish-out-of-water Duke crashes onto her campus as the new rare books and manuscript curator, Emma’s goals seem suddenly attainable. She’ll ask for Aidan’s forgiveness for ghosting him after grad school and get permission to view his family’s archives—even as she tries to ignore the long-suppressed feelings he stirs up. While their chemistry re-ignites over co-teaching, faculty receptions, and bar trivia, his evil uncle is making moves to ensure that Aidan never inherits. So Aidan proposes a marriage of convenience—he’ll get his inheritance and give her access to the smut stash. But when Emma discovers a secret in the collection that could destroy his family, she must decide whether her drive for tenure matters more than the quickie marriage that’s become all too real.