by Helen Hoang
Part of The Kiss Quotient, book 2
First published 2019
Esme Tran is a young Vietnamese woman struggling to support her family back home. When a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity arises to become a "mail-order bride" for a wealthy autistic man in America, she takes the leap. In San Francisco, Khai Diep is an emotionally-guarded man who has long accepted his inability to feel. As Esme infiltrates his carefully ordered life, Khai is forced to confront the feelings he never knew he had. Can these two opposites find common ground and open their hearts to an unexpected love?
Genres: fiction, romance, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: San Francisco, Vietnam
Period: 21st-century
320 pages · Paperback · Berkley
Content warnings: mental-illness