I just can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to dating. Every first date ends in complete disaster, one after another. I’d call it a curse, really. Sometimes I feel like fate has doomed me to walk the earth alone for all eternity. Until one evening, on my walk home from yet another horrible first date, I trip and fall right into the arms of the man of my dreams. Jace is gorgeous, sweet, intelligent, and so very enticing. But fate has a wry sense of humor, because it turns out Jace is my teaching assistant for the semester. He’s off limits. Dating him would be unprofessional and wrong. Very, very wrong. Except, when Jace is near me, flirting and tempting me with his wholesome charm, I can’t quite seem to remember why it’s so wrong at all… ——— The Love Factor is an M/M romance novella that was originally part of the Untouched Heroes Vol 1: A Men's Health Charity Anthology. It has since been edited but the story remains largely unchanged.