Problematic Summer Romance (Not in Love #2)
Ali Hazelwood
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
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Explicit open door [?]
· 225 ratings · 416 pages · Published: 27 May 2025
Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life.
Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him.
It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life.
But not everything is as it seems—and clichés sometimes become plot twists.
When Maya’s brother decides to get married in Taormina, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week. There, on the beautiful Ionian coast, between ancient ruins, delicious foods, and natural caves, Maya realizes that Conor might be hiding something from her. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out of control, she decides that a summer fling might be just what she needs—even if it’s a problematic one.
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Tagged as:
- age gap 57
- sibling's best friend 50
- contemporary 47
- m-f romance 41
- sassy heroine 38
- ceo/tycoon hero 37
- friends to lovers 37
- slow burn 36
- forced proximity 35
- breeding 34
- rich hero 31
- take-charge heroine 29
- grumpy/cold hero 28
- grumpy & sunshine 24
- competent heroine 24
- cheerful/happy heroine 22
- possessive hero 21
- silver fox 20
- hurt/comfort 20
- secret relationship 20
- found family 19
- forbidden love 18
- new adult 17
- caretaking 15
- funny 14
- sweet/gentle hero 13
- tortured hero 13
- angst 13
- height difference 12
- independent heroine 9
- insta-love 5
- second chances 4
- class difference 4
- Add topics
- content warnings
- death / grief 14
- substance abuse 4
- mental trauma 2
- geography
- italy 36
- europe 18
- scotland 16
- texas 15
- southern europe 2
- north america 1
- usa 1
- Format
- Audiobook
- first person pov 40
- male pov 2
- dual pov 1
romance tags
The 'Not in Love' series
3.92 · 671 ratings
first-person-pov · mental-trauma · explicit-open-door · texas · insta-love · dual-pov · sweet-hero · hurt-comfort · tycoon · angst · secret-relationship · tortured hero · north-america · death · usa · humor · forced proximity · independent heroine · super rich hero · male-pov
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