A smart, sexy, and witty romantic comedyâperfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorneâabout a twentysomething who lives out every womanâs fantasy: getting paid to give men who do us wrong a taste of their own medicine. But when a previous target unexpectedly shows up at her office, sheâs forced to rethink her life as a professional heartbreaker.
Brinkley Saunders has a secret.
To everyone in the academic world she left behind, she lost it all when she dropped out of grad school. Once a rising star following in her motherâs footsteps, sheâs now an administrative assistant at an insurance agencyâor so they think.
In reality, Brinkley works at Heartbreak for Hire, a secret service that specializes in revenge for jilted lovers, frenemies, and long-suffering coworkers with a little cash to spare and a man who needs to be taken down a notch. It might not be as prestigious as academia, but it helps Brinkley save for her dream of opening an art gallery and lets her exorcise a few demons, all while helping to empower women.
But when her boss announces sheâs hiring male heartbreakers for the first time, Brinkleyâs no longer so sure sheâs doing the right thingâespecially when her new coworker turns out to be a target she was paid to take down. Though Mark spends his days struggling up the academic ladder, he seems to be the opposite of a backstabbing adjunct: a nerd at heart in criminally sexy sweater vests whoâs attentive both in and out of the bedroom. But as Brinkley finds it increasingly more difficult to focus on anything but Mark, she soon realizes that like herself, people arenât always who they appear to be.
With Sonia Hartlâs âbitingly funnyâ (Publishers Weekly) prose, Heartbreak for Hire is a clever romcom you and your girlfriends wonât be able to stop talking about.