The Culture of Hooking Up

<p><strong><em>As a twenty-one-year-old sociology major Laney Emerson approaches life the same way she approaches her ethnographic research at a local nightclub detached and observant.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>She's researching nightclubs to show the oppressive nature of hookup culture and other gendered dating expectations but she knows the rules of hooking up. One never stay past sunrise in a stranger's bed. Two no strings attached. Laney experiences the alienation of hookup culture just as much as she engages in it.</p><p><br></p><p>Until one night Laney meets Jack Carver at the bar. He wears his heart on his sleeve like a tattoo and is determined to drill his way under Laney's skin. At first hooking up with Jack quickly becomes a habit but when Jack finds out about Laney's research he's only more interested in observing her. Too bad the rules of ethnography are the same as hooking up--don't get attached. How can Laney focus when the objectives of her research get blurred with the objectives in her heart?</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>The Culture of Hooking Up is a contemporary new adult college romance novel full of thought-provoking questions swoon-worthy tension and a whole lot of heart.</em></strong></p>