In her witty and breathtakingly sexy novel, Emily Foster introduces a story of lust, friendship, and other unpredictable experiments . Data, research, technological formulae–Annabelle Coffey is totally at ease with all of them. Males, not so much. But that’s all going to alter after she asks Dr. Charles Douglas, the postdoctoral fellow in her laboratory, to have sex with her. Charles is not only beautiful, he’s also adorably awkward, British, amazing, and nice. What are the chances he’d turn her down? High, as it occurs. Something regarding that whole pupil/instructor/ethics thing. But in a couple weeks, Annie will graduate. When she does, the unlikely companionship that’s developing between them can turn physical–just until Annie leaves for graduate college. Yet nothing at all could have prepared either Annie or Charles for chemistry such as this, or for what happens when a basic exercise in mutual pleasure becomes something as exhilarating and infernally complicated as love.