With How to Sell a Romance, Alexa Martin (Better than Fiction; Next-Door Nemesis) has created a sexy and hilarious romance starring a kindergarten teacher caught up in a multilevel marketing scheme. Emerson Pierce loves teaching, but it doesn't pay all her bills, so when her principal invites her to a Petunia Lemon event with a promise that the company's skin care line could earn Emerson thousands of dollars as a "girl boss," Emerson signs up.
Emerson meets an extremely handsome man, Luke, at the event's rooftop bar and spends the night with him. In the morning, Emerson reveals that she's a new Petunia Lemon rep once Luke mentions that he's an investigative journalist working on an exposé of the company. The situation worsens when the new school year begins and Emerson is appalled to discover that "Luke" is Lucas Miller, the father of one of her students. As Emerson realizes that Lucas is a really kind person and a good father and that she's actually losing money on her side gig, she wonders whether the attractive reporter might have been right about Petunia Lemon after all.
Clever and laugh-out-loud funny, How to Sell a Romance will appeal to anyone fascinated by multilevel marketing scandals and the failures of "girl boss" culture. Martin nails the pyramid selling vibes and school parent-teacher dramas. Martin mixes in essential elements--with her knack for description and some steamy scenes between Emerson and Lucas--to create a great romance novel. --Jessica Howard, former bookseller, freelance book reviewer