And yes, Doomsday Book is EXCELLENT (though, umm, yeah -- it's Black Death era, of course it's going to be full of a fair bit of death -- if you go into it with that in mind, you should be find).

Thank you for the tip. I think I will go ahead and snag a copy from somewhere.

I am usually rather leery of M/F romances

I think they do tend to come with a lot of potentially problematic baggage. That said, I'm a huge fan of Courtney Milan's Hold Me: contemporary featuring a trans femme heroine and a bi hero. They flirt in science.