ROMANCE

The Love Simulation

Berkley. Mar. 2025. 320p. ISBN 9780593640241. pap. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
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Vice principal Brianna Rogers has purposely kept herself apart from the teachers at her school. Now that she’s an administrator, she can’t play favorites. Setting boundaries with most of the staff is easy, but Roman Major, the exceptionally fine teacher and son of the principal, is harder to resist. It takes all of Brianna’s willpower to reign in her attraction to him. When she impulsively volunteers to participate in a team competition that would fully fund a school library renovation, the only thing standing in her way is the team’s last-minute addition: Roman. Has Roman been sent by his father to sabotage their chances? Suspicious mechanical errors seem to validate her wariness. As the weeks go by, the barriers Brianna has put up between herself and Roman begin to crumble, and it seems the attraction is mutual. Brianna will have to decide if she can trust Roman with her heart. Brianna is a better-developed character than Roman, but this works in the plot’s favor, as it makes readers share Brianna’s distrust of Roman’s motives, a conundrum that will have them staying up late into the night as they race to the novel’s end for the answer.
VERDICT Easton (The Kiss Countdown) writes a slow-burn page-turner.
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