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Ali Hazelwood Books in Order

Ali Hazelwood was born in Italy, lived in Japan and Germany, and moved to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience. After working as a professor, she left academia in 2022 to write full time. Her fiction frequently features scientists, academics, and other women in STEM, alongside contemporary and paranormal romance.

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Catalog record updated August 25, 2026.

Ali Hazelwood's Newest Book

Unbound

novella · First published 2026

Lilit of Nineveh has spent millennia in control. As a powerful revenant, she enforces one rule above all: protect mortals. Disciplined and focused, she has never made the same mistake twice, and she has learned that attachments can only lead to ruin. Enter Roman Martin. An overworked and relentlessly kind ER physician, he is the one mortal Lilit cannot quit. Any relationship between them is against everything Lilit has fought for. Still, she keeps coming back to him. Until someone starts hunting Lilit, and Roman is caught in the crossfire. When everything comes crashing down, Lilit must choose between the world she has sworn to protect and the man she was never meant to love.

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The Love Hypothesis

Her debut novel and an accessible introduction to her contemporary STEM romance.

Bride

The first book in her paranormal Bride series.

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novel series · ongoing

Bride

A paranormal romance series set amid tensions between Vampyres, Weres, and Humans.

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Bride
Book 1 · novel · 2024

"Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself…
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Mate
Book 2 · novel · 2025

Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human-Were hybrid was supposed to heal a centuries-long rift between species. Instead, it made her a target, prey to the ruthless political machinations…

duology · complete

Bound and Unbound

A paranormal romance duology comprising two connected novellas.

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Bound
Book 1 · novella · 2025

Veronica “Vero” Mercer grew up with grifters for parents, and she knows her way around a con. When grad school bills pile up and her friends are in trouble, she turns her art history skills into a forgery side hustle. It’s supposed to be…
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Unbound
Book 2 · novella · 2026

Lilit of Nineveh has spent millennia in control. As a powerful revenant, she enforces one rule above all: protect mortals. Disciplined and focused, she has never made the same mistake twice, and she has learned that attachments can only…

novella series · complete

STEMinist Novellas

Three companion contemporary romance novellas featuring women working in science and engineering.

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Under One Roof
Book 1 · novella · 2022

Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract…
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Stuck with You
Book 2 · novella · 2022

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new steamy, STEMinist novella… Nothing like a little rivalry between scientists to take love to the next level. Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first,…
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Below Zero
Book 3 · novella · 2022

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new steamy, STEMinist novella… It will take the frosty terrain of the Arctic to show these rival scientists that their chemistry burns hot. Mara, Sadie, and Hannah…

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Novels (8)

The Love Hypothesis
novel · 2021

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships—but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily…
Love on the Brain
novel · 2022

Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project—a literal dream come true…
Love, Theoretically
novel · 2023

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes…
Check & Mate
novel · 2023

Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory’s focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is,…
Not in Love
novel · 2024

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in…
Two Can Play
novella · 2024

The only problem? Her co-lead is Jesse F-ing Andrews, aka her archnemesis. Jesse has made it abundantly clear over the years that he wants nothing to do with her–and Viola has no idea why. When their bosses insist a wintery retreat is the…
Deep End
novel · 2025

Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury…
Problematic Summer Romance
novel · 2025

Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman;…

Short fiction (2)

Cruel Winter with You
short story · 2024

All newly minted pediatrician Jamie Malek wants is to borrow a roasting pan for Christmas dinner. Unfortunately, that requires her to interact with Marc—her best friend’s troublemaking brother, who’s now a tech billionaire. He’s the one…
Hot for Slayer
short story · 2025

When Aethelthryth—“Ethel” to her modern-day Manhattan neighbors—finds her sworn nemesis Lazlo Enyedi with no memory of who or what they are, an ancient hunt becomes an unexpected chance at forbidden passion. He’s crashing on her couch,…

Other (1)

FIRST
collection · 2025

Frequently asked questions about Ali Hazelwood

Is Ali Hazelwood her real name?

Ali Hazelwood is a pen name. She has chosen not to publicly disclose her real name, keeping her author identity separate from her personal and scientific life.

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Where is Ali Hazelwood from, and what did she study?

She is originally from Italy, lived in Japan and Germany, and moved to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience.

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Was Ali Hazelwood a professor before becoming a full-time writer?

Yes. She was a professor for about three years before leaving academia in 2022 to write full time.

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How did fan fiction influence Ali Hazelwood’s writing career?

Hazelwood says fan fiction taught her how to write and made fiction feel approachable. Her agent discovered a Star Wars-inspired fan-fiction story that ultimately led to her publishing career.

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Has Ali Hazelwood won any major book awards?

Yes. Her novel Check & Mate won the 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for Readers’ Favorite Young Adult Fiction.

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