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The Bride Test


A Romance Novel


Book 2 of the The Kiss Quotient Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Contemporary Romance,
  • Neurodivergent Lead,
  • Matchmaking,
  • Immigrant Experience,
  • Forced Proximity
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Matchmaking schemes that spiral into unexpected territory
  • Neurodivergent leads navigating romance and family expectations
  • Cross-cultural love stories with high emotional stakes

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This layered contemporary romance features a neurodivergent hero dealing with a meddling mother and a matchmaking situation gone awry.

Khai Diep doesn't think love is for him. His mom has other plans and convinces Esme Tran, a mixed-race girl living in Vietnam to fly to America and consider him as her future husband. Now, they're under the same roof and Khai refuses to accept this situation, but Esme has a few lessons in love to teach him.

Publisher Description

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.

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