I could feel Jax’s lack of “chill” as he thinks to himself, “Nobody disliked me. Rand is a brilliant jock, who is also the son and heir of a cold demanding oil billionaire. Jax, future environmental lawyer, son of a loving family, vegan, geek, and president of Sigma Mu Tau, is completely frustrated by the president of his enemy fraternity, Alpha Lambda Alpha’s. The authors add layers of social consciousness and lessons on intimacy to the geek/jock, enemies-to-lovers tropes, resulting in loads of fun! HEAD TO HEAD is an enemies to lovers, forced proximity, opposites attract, searching for his sister, clashing cultures, M/M romance-with a whole lot of fracking.Įli Easton and Tara Lain’s Head to Head starts like a familiar novel, then deviates towards richer, deeper veins. With this much face time, head-to-head might become heart-to-heart.

The bitter rivals embark on a quest to save a family member and discover that sometimes animosity is a mask for crazy-hot attraction. Rand learns chickens can enter the living room and that Jax’s beliefs are more than skin-deep. Jax is forced to sit on Rand’s dead cow seats. The enemies have never had a single conversation that didn’t involve shouting-until Jax’s old Buick breaks down on a road trip and Rand plays reluctant rescuer.

Rand has sent nothing but hateful vibes his way since the day they met. Jax hates Rand for being the privileged, rich-heir-to-an-oil-empire, environment-destroying, soul-sucking president of the ALA jocks-but mostly because Rand hated him first. Rand hates Jax because he’s the laid-back, vegan-eating, tree-hugging, total-Zen-until-I-get-a-chance-to-screw-you president of Sigma Mu Tau, the nerdy fraternity that’s the sworn enemy of Rand’s house, Alpha Lambda Alpha. If these two don’t kill each other, they might fall in love.

The Mating of Michael by Eli Easton