Bøger af Helen Hoang

Goodread's Romance Book of the Year, 2018A Washington Post Book of the Year, 2018An AmazonBook of the Year, 2018Cosmopolitan's 33 Books to Get Excited About in 2018Elle Best Summer Reads 2018__________ 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.It's high time for Stella Lane to settle down and find a husband - or so her mother tells her. This is no easy task for a wealthy, successful woman like Stella, who also happens to have Asperger's. Analyzing data is easy; handling the awkwardness of one-on-one dates is hard. To overcome her lack of dating experience, Stella decides to hire a male escort to teach her how to be a good girlfriend.Faced with mounting bills, Michael decides to use his good looks and charm to make extra cash on the side. He has a very firm no repeat customer policy, but he's tempted to bend that rule when Stella approaches him with an unconventional proposal.The more time they spend together, the harder Michael falls for this disarming woman with a beautiful mind, and Stella discovers that love defies logic.Heart-tugging, sexy and utterly joyful - The Kiss Quotient is a book for anyone who has been in love, or in lust...

Khai Diep har ingen følelser. Eller … det passer ikke helt. Han bliver irriteret, når folk flytter på hans ting, og han bliver inderligt tilfreds, når et regnskab stemmer helt ned til sidste øre, men han oplever ikke store og vigtige følelser. Da han hårdnakket viger uden om alle romantiske forhold, tager hans mor sagen i egen hånd og rejser tilbage til Vietnam for at finde den perfekte brud. Esme Tran er træt af sit udsigtsløse job og sit liv i Ho Chi Minh City, så da hun får chancen for at rejse til USA i tre måneder og møde en mulig ægtemand, slår hun til. Men hendes forsøg på at forføre Khai går ikke som planlagt. I stedet spirer kærligheden hos hende selv, og inden længe er hun håbløst forelsket i en mand, der er overbevist om, at han aldrig vil kunne gengælde hendes kærlighed.

Nogle gange er kærlighed det mest logiske i verden 30-årige Stella Lane ved alt om algoritmer, men intet om kærlighed. Hun har Aspergers syndrom og er en stor matematisk begavelse med et velbetalt job i Silicon Valley, men når det kommer til dating og intimitet, er hun på dybt vand. Da hendes mor begynder at presse på for at få børnebørn, beslutter Stella sig for at overvinde sin frygt for det andet køn – om ikke andet for at få fred for sin mor. Hun behøver professionel hjælp, og som med alt andet i sit liv går hun systematisk til værks: Hun hyrer Michael Phan, en ung escortfyr, i håb om at han kan lære hende alt, hun behøver at vide om sex. Efterhånden som Stella og Michael lærer hinanden bedre at kende, og Stellas oplæring bevæger sig fra dobbeltsengen og videre til et ”rigtigt” forhold på fuld tid, begynder deres aparte alliance at give en sær form for mening …

From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart...

A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected--and the man she enlists to help her--in this sizzling new romance by USA Today bestselling author Helen Hoang. When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to be perfect in other people's eyes. If Anna ever wants to move forward, she has to learn to listen to her own heart, but that's not easy when her greatest fear has always been disappointing others. Her solution is to create a low-stress environment, with no expectations to fulfill, where she can experiment with being herself and going after what she wants. Translation: Anna is going to embark on a string of one-night stands. The more unacceptable the men, the better. That's where tattooed, motorcycle-riding Quan Diep comes in, but nothing goes according to plan. Their first attempt at a one-night stand fails, as does their second, and their third, until it starts to feel like a real relationship. But when her traditional-minded family disapproves of the relationship and the person she's slowly discovering herself to be, Anna must choose between meeting expectations and finding happiness in who she really is.

Khai Diep has autism which means he just processes emotions differently. His mother returns to Vietnam to find him a bride. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran can't turn down the opportunity to come to America and meet a potential husband, however it doesn't go as planned.

From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient and The Bride Test comes a witty, sizzling novel that shows how wrong you can be about someone... and how right they can be for you.

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart...Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions—like grief. And love. He thinks he''s defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can''t turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn''t go as planned. Esme''s lessons in love seem to be working...but only on herself. She''s hopelessly smitten with a man who''s convinced he can never return her affection. With Esme''s time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he''s been wrong all along. And there''s more than one way to love.