The Kiss Quotient

Stella Lane is a successful econometrician who is very good with numbers and much less certain about people. Autistic and used to being told she is unusual, she has decided that the reason her few attempts at dating have gone badly is simply that she needs practice. So she does the logical thing: she hires a professional escort to teach her.

Michael Phan is charming, gorgeous, and moonlighting as an escort to support his family. He expects their arrangement to be simple, but Stella's blunt honesty and single-minded determination get under his skin, and their practice sessions start to feel like something real, something neither of them can quite fit into their carefully controlled lives.

Warm, funny, and unusually tender, Helen Hoang's debut is a contemporary romance about intimacy, self-acceptance, and learning to be loved exactly as you are. Inspired by the author's own experience of an autism diagnosis, it brings rare heart to the story of two people who never expected to belong to each other.