

Analyzing data is easy, but handling the awkwardness of dating is hard, and her mother is pushing for her to find “the one.” To overcome her lack of dating experience, Stella overanalyzes herself and hires a male escort to teach her how to be a good girlfriend. Stella, the protagonist, is a wealthy, successful woman who also happens to have Asperger’s.

And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic.The Kiss Quotient is a heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that is part family and cultural dynamics, and part coming of age and sweet romance. Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan-from foreplay to more-than-missionary position.īefore long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but to crave all the other things he's making her feel. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice-with a professional.

It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases-a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.
