She wanted to save the world, but with dismal career prospects, she has given up on being a political activist and decided to enter the field of academia. In the middle of all this is Molly Cook, a PhD student in the Political Department at the University of Maryland. It should be a time of change and acceptance, but people won’t budge on gay rights. Welcome back to the 90’s, where everything’s shoulder pads, Doc Martens, The X-Files, and Ellen DeGeneres has just come out on her hit television sitcom. The thing is, as the chemistry builds between them, Molly isn’t sure she wants to be a grad student anymore…if she ever did.The Love Factor by Quinn Ivins is a smart and sexy debut novel that highlights one decade’s crossroads that were important to the fight for LGBTQ rights. But she absolutely refuses to get involved with a student. As the two women work together to make their case, they grow closer than Carmen ever imagined.
She has no intention of coming out, least of all to Molly, a troublemaking grad student who can’t stop picking fights with the conservative faculty.īut when Molly discovers evidence implicating a homophobic colleague in a scandal, Carmen can’t ignore it-even if the subject hits too close to home. Professor Carmen Vaughn is stuck in small-town Maryland with smarmy blowhards for colleagues and ungrateful students who can’t handle her high standards. Molly decides to give a PhD a whirl but finds herself more interested in campus politics…and her strict and sexy statistics professor.
It might be the nineties, and everything’s shoulder pads, Doc Martens, and The X-Files, but people won’t budge on gay rights.
Molly Cook is almost thirty, with dismal career prospects, and has given up on saving the world. A smart, opposites-attract, student-professor romance filled with nostalgia, edgy politics, and the forbidden thrills of lesbian love in the nineties.
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