{"product_id":"proof-by-contradiction-alex-w-wells-9798255601929","title":"Proof by Contradiction: A Forbidden Age Gap MM Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree days in Manchester and Ewan Carrick has already decided he's leaving.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe economics degree was his mother's idea. The damp halls, the grey skies, the moquette the colour of a confession nobody wanted to make: all confirmation that Lewisham was better. He'll finish the term. He'll go home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Dr Laurence Haldrey walks into a lecture theatre, uncaps a marker, and Ewan's exit strategy falls apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurence is thirty-one, Oxford-trained, and held together by rolled sleeves and self-control. He does not touch students. He does not bend rules. He does not look twice at the student in the back row who solves his problem sets too fast and refuses to raise his hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcept he does look. And Ewan looks back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffice hours become Tuesday afternoons with the door closed. Then a borrowed key. Then a green door in Chorlton. Then a thing that could cost Laurence his career and break every lie Ewan tells himself.\u003c\/p\u003eWhat readers will find: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSingle POV, first person present: Ewan's sharp, catalogue-everything voice from page one\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn age-gap forbidden romance with a morally grey lecturer and the eighteen-year-old who unmakes him\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBritish setting: Manchester, Chorlton, lecture theatres, terraced houses, the 142 bus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlow-burn literary romance - the tension builds through problem sets, not grand gestures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLight kink, full consent, no fade-to-black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHEA guaranteed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA forbidden student-lecturer MM romance with literary tension, light kink, full consent, and a guaranteed HEA. Book 1 of the Carrick Brothers Duet. Can be read independently.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex W. Wells\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798255601929\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.07d","brand":"Alex W. Wells","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659950502143,"sku":"9798255601929","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/proof-by-contradiction-alex-w-wells-9798255601929","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}