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. 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.“A smart, opposites-attract, student-professor romance filled with nostalgia, edgy politics, and the forbidden thrills of lesbian love in the nineties. But she absolutely refuses to get involved with a student. 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.

A smart, opposites-attract, student-professor romance filled with nostalgia, edgy politics, and the forbidden thrills of lesbian love in the nineties.

The Love Factor by Quinn Ivins