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Learning Curves

By: Rachel Lacey
Narrated by: Quinn Riley
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From the author of Stars Collide and Cover Story comes a steamy will-they-won’t-they romance about a bright young teacher reconnecting with the jaded professor she once pined for.

For Audrey Lind, working with clay still evokes memories of her favorite professor. The woman’s zeal for art history ignited Audrey’s own academic career—and her tweed blazers and British accent kindled her first female crush. After fate brings Audrey back to Northshire University to teach, she’s thrilled to be working alongside her former mentor, but the grumpy woman she encounters upon her return is nothing like the dynamo she remembers.

Divorce and a stalling career have turned Dr. Michelle Thompson bitter and guarded. When Audrey swoops in to teach the Women in Art class Michelle’s been pitching for years, she longs to hate her. But her young rival is too kind, too enthusiastic, too irresistible. And her passion for life slowly reawakens Michelle’s own.

Wary of age gaps and workplace politics, they suppress their smoldering attraction—until one wine-filled night at the pottery wheel puts their romantic truce to the test. Will they keep things on the tenure track or risk it all for love?

©2025 Rachel Bates. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Contemporary Romance
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“Fans of slow burns, sexy tweed, and queer sincerity will love this couple.”—Publishers Weekly
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This is the second time I've listened to this. I rated it 5 stars the first time but didn't actually leave a review and I don't know why.
This was just everything. Sweet, sexy beautiful. Everything.

Absolutely adore!

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I need a 5 year update on these two. They are perfection and I need to know what happens next! The only thing that would have made it perfect, is if they had someone with a genuine English accent voicing Melissa

I need more!!

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Rachel Lacey has done it again with the assistance of the awesome narration by Quinn Riley. She has brought these characters to life and damn they were hot. I also enjoyed the bringing of other characters from other books to life in this one and the crossover. Definitely worth a second and third listen to.

🔥🔥🔥 loved every moment of it

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Loved this book! Such a warm and fleshed out story, gorgeous characters and very descriptive narrative.

Such a wholesome story

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Age gap romance isnt my usual thing, but i really enjoyed this one. 5 stars all round.

It is so good.

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