She is pushed out of the way at the last minute by Levi before she blacks out. While exploring the facility, Bee encounters a kitten, which accidentally knocks over some precariously placed equipment that almost falls on and crushes Bee. Bee regularly interacts and collaborates with another anonymous account, the author of which also works in STEM.īee and Rocío are given an unofficial tour of their workspace by Guy Kowalsky, an astronaut and long-time collaborator on BLINK, and Bee wonders why Levi is heading the project instead of Guy. Marie Curie, the early 19th-century Polish physicist who won a Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity. On the flight, she checks her secret Twitter account, which she began anonymously some years ago to vent and share about the experiences of women in STEM. Bee flies to Houston to begin the project with her research assistant, Rocío Cortoreal. Bee is thrilled, except for the fact that she will have to work alongside Levi Ward, an engineer and her old grad school nemesis. Bee Königswasser is a neuroscientist working at NIH, who receives a prestigious opportunity to co-lead BLINK, a project at NASA focused on creating helmets for astronauts that improve attention through neurostimulation.

And the possibilities have all her neurons firing.Dr. Perhaps it’s her occipital cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas…devouring her with those eyes. Now, her equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school-archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.

And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project-a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia-Marie would accept without hesitation. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis-with explosive results.

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