Aerospace engineer Esther Abbott doesn’t have confidence in love, but she’s perfectly happy to hate her annoying screenwriter neighbor, Jonathan. Until she’s forced to strike a devil’s bargain with him: he distracts her best friend from a mouth-breather former mate, and in exchange Esther can help him using the sci-fi script he’s composing.

Her patience is certainly put to the check when it’s time to satisfy her end of the deal. But the additional time she spends with her nemesis, the more hate becomes attraction-and attraction into something much deeper. As Esther’s cautiously constructed defenses begin to crumble, will like become her undoing or her salvation?

Intermediate Thermodynamics follows in the custom of contemporary intimate comedy favorites like Penny Reid, Sally Thorne, and Jennifer Crusie. This enemies-to-lovers love may be the second in some standalone rom-coms featuring geeky heroines who function in STEM fields.

Contains mature themes.