The Sexiest Nerd Alive – J. Preston

When you're a woman in a STEM world, you have to try twice as hard.

So if you used a matchmaking app to get invited to an industry event, wouldn't you really be just leveling the scales?

Hayley Scott would do anything to make her boss notice her. Working as an intern in a top-notch Cancer Research facility is not all it's cracked up to be, when the people above you regularly mistake you for a cleaner. So when her best friend comes up with an ingenious plan to get her noticed, Hayley grabs the bull by the horns. Or rather, by the Holidates app.

Adam Granger left his tenure to be with his ill mother. When he returns home, the last thing he wants to do is to attend an awards dinner. Except that might just be the distraction he needs. When a chance connection on the app brings the one woman he never quite could forget back into his life, he's determined to not let the chance pass him by.

Between Hayley's uncertainty about getting involved with her ex college professor, and Adam's mother's illness getting worse day by day, can they look past what's going wrong in their lives and see what's right?