![]() But when little things start to go wrong for Bee and her team, she begins to wonder if her co-lead isn't above sabotage. Their work on BLINK is an improvement though, as Levi doesn't immediately bail on the project. Her excitement is short-lived when she discovers she'll be co-leading the project with engineer Levi Ward, her grad school nemesis, whose cold, cutting behavior and outspoken inability to work with her on an assignment have stuck with her. The invitation to the team is enough to get Bee out of the funk she's been in since she discovered her fiance cheating and her engagement fell apart. A neuroscientist is forced to work with her academic nemesis on a career-changing project in this STEM-celebratory contemporary romance.īee Königswasser is over-the-moon excited when she's asked to lead BLINK, a joint project between NASA and the National Institutes of Health designed to build better technology for astronauts. ![]()
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