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Blinded with Love and Science: 17 Romances with Protagonists in STEM

Love may be the least scientific emotion, but these protagonists in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are still destined to find their happily-ever-afters!

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  • To convince her best friend that she is on her way to a happily ever after, third-year Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith, who doesn’t believe in long-lasting romance, forms a fake relationship with Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant.
    Book, 2021New York : Jove, 2021. — ROMANCE HAZELWOO A
  • In the wake of her father’s death and her lover’s marriage, astronomer Lucy Muchelney seizes the scientific opportunity of a lifetime and runs off to London, where she finds solace and support in the widowed Catherine St. Day.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Avon Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — FICTION WAITE O
  • Spilling coffee on a handsome astronaut works out surprisingly well for event planner Amerie when they both turn out to need a fake relationship!
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — ROMANCE EASTON E
  • It's Indiana Jones plus tea and helicopter parasols as rival ornithologists on the hunt for a rare magical bird fall in love.
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — ROMANCE HOLTON I
  • Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved! On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Berkley Romance, 2025. — ROMANCE LEMMING K
  • A small-town baker who dreams of opening up a cookie shop in Chicago falls for a big-city academic paleontologist when a rare dinosaur bone turns up in her grandparents’ back yard.
    Book, 2022Seattle [Washington] : Montlake, [2022] — ROMANCE BLUMBERG C
  • An obsessive medical researcher chases an ex-boy band member to his isolated wildlife sanctuary in this update of Bringing Up Baby.
    eAudiobook, 2024HarlequinAudio, 2024
  • A girls' weekend out at the Muslim conference in downtown Toronto takes an unexpected turn when Nada runs into her secret ex.
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley Romance, 2023. — ROMANCE JALALUDD U
  • When three friends impulsively buy a lottery ticket, they never suspect the many ways their lives will change—or that for each of them, love will be the biggest win of all.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., 2023. — ROMANCE CLAYBORN K
  • A former painter and unreformed rake working in bicycle sales in Victorian Cornwall accepts an illustration commission from a feisty botanist who enlists his help in convincing an all-male cycling club to allow women to join.
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — ROMANCE LOWELL J
  • After a PR disaster, astronaut Reggie is off the list for a lunar mission. To rehabilitate her reputation with NASA, she agrees to a different kind of assignment: astronaut “training” with a Hollywood action hero.
    Book, 2022Seattle : Montlake, [2022] — ROMANCE COMFORT J
  • The last thing Melody expects when she moves across the country is to run into her college one-night stand again. Not only does he work at the same company where she's just started in the IT department, he's the CEO's son!
    eBook, 2017Haver Street Press, 2017
  • Organizing a society to support women scientists while performing clandestine missions for the Crown, genius noblewoman Lady Violet Hughes secretly falls in love with her bodyguard, Arthur Kneland.
    Book, 2021New York : Jove, 2021. — ROMANCE EVERETT E
  • Violet is hiding a terrible secret: for years, the notorious Sebastian Malheur has been publishing scientific theories on her behalf. When Sebastian wants out of the lie, she'll do anything to save their partnership—even open her heart.
    Book, 2013[La Vergne : Lightning Source], c2013. — FICTION MILAN C
  • When her viral fanfiction leads to a disastrous publicity-stunt date with her celebrity crush, geologist and secret nerd April discovers that the actor writes fanfiction of his own!
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — ROMANCE DADE O
  • A "mad scientist" earl's life is turned upside-down when a con artist posing as his secretary takes charge of his castle.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Avon Impulse, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, [2017] — ROMANCE SEBASTIA C
  • Thirty-year-old engineer Amira Khan has set one rule for herself: no dating until her grad school thesis is done.
    Book, 2019Toronto, Ontario, Canada : HarperAvenue, [2019] — ROMANCE HERON F