I Hate You, Doctor Robert!

Veronika Fox’s books are sensual stories about first love that get under your skin, make you empathize with the heroes, and feel glad for them—as if they were long-time acquaintances. Yana Alanina is crazy about molecular biology, but she can’t stand her colleague, Doctor Mark Rober. To her, he’s an arrogant snob, a rude bully, and an ill-mannered boor who constantly makes cutting jokes at his colleagues.

Doctor Rober doesn’t like Yana either—he tries to tease her as painfully as possible and push her to anger. But everything changes on the day Yana receives an alluring offer: the very doctor Rober asks her to play at “fake dating” so that his relatives stop trying to marry him off. In return, Mark will help Yana get into graduate school.

What will Yana do? When hatred and love are separated only by a thin wall of drywall…