The Kiss Quotient

When Stella Lane decides the only logical solution to her dismal dating life is to hire someone to teach her, she never expects her arrangement with the impossibly charming Michael Phan to become the most complicated variable in her carefully calculated world.

Stella is brilliant at her job—her algorithms predict consumer behavior with stunning accuracy—but human connection has always eluded her. At thirty, she's never had a relationship that lasted past the second date. So she does what any data-driven woman would do: she approaches the problem systematically. Michael is gorgeous, professional, and exactly what she needs. Strictly business, completely temporary, no emotions involved.

Michael has his own reasons for keeping things professional. He's working toward a future that has no room for complications, especially not with a client who looks at him like he's a puzzle she's determined to solve. The problem is, Stella is unlike anyone he's ever met—achingly honest, unexpectedly funny, and impossible to resist.

What begins as a transactional arrangement slowly transforms into something neither of them planned for. As the fake dates blur into real ones and the carefully maintained distance between them collapses, both Stella and Michael must confront the feelings they've been pretending don't exist.

Smart, sensual, and surprisingly tender, *The Kiss Quotient* proves that sometimes the heart operates on a logic all its own—and the most meaningful connections are the ones you never see