Bed Chemistry
A Novel
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- ¥2,400
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One bed. One (very awkward) shared past. What could go wrong?
With a fun and steamy twist on the only-one-bed trope, this debut contemporary romance will delight fans of The Love Hypothesis and The Paradise Problem.
Chemistry teacher Ashleigh Hutchinson knows better than anyone that love and lust don’t mix. The feelings come from different hormones, they trigger different responses, and they demand different reactions. Which is why she doesn’t date. She hooks up. No catching-of-feels required.
When Ashleigh is fired from her job without notice, she signs up to participate in a month-long sleep study, which will pay her enough to cover rent while she job hunts. It seems easy enough—until she walks into the clinic and finds herself staring right into the gorgeous eyes of Xander Miller, the only man to have ever tempted her to abandon her no relationships rule.
When Xander and Ashleigh realize the study is only looking for couples, they agree to pretend to be together—which means sleeping in the same bed every night for the next few weeks. How hard can it be to keep their cool under the covers?
With steamy “will they or won’t they” tension and plenty of hilariously awkward moments, Bed Chemistry is sure to appeal to fans of Christina Lauren, Ali Hazelwood, and Meghan Quinn.
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McKenzie's fun if somewhat implausible debut takes the "there was only one bed" trope to new extremes. Über-practical Ashleigh Hutchinson "studied chemistry so could rationally explain every feeling with science." After witnessing her father's infidelity and her parents' painful divorce, she took her sex therapist mother's advice to separate lust from love and embrace one-night stands over relationships. When she loses her teaching job on the last day of school, she applies for a paid sleep study to help cover her summer bills—only to arrive and learn that the study is exclusively interested in couples. Enter Xander Miller, a close college friend with whom Ashleigh shared one unforgettable hookup before commando-crawling away the morning after to avoid talking about feelings. Xander hopes the study will help cure his insomnia and agrees to fake being in a committed relationship with Ashleigh so they can both participate. As they share a bed every night for four weeks, old feelings resurface. The fake dating contrivance strains credulity a bit, especially due to Xander and Ashleigh's poor acting skills and initial awkwardness around each other. Readers who can suspend their disbelief, however, will appreciate the duo's witty banter and palpable sexual tension. It's a promising start.
