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Title details for Heartbreak for Hire by Sonia Hartl - Available

Heartbreak for Hire

A Novel

by Sonia Hartl
Shaina Summerville
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A smart, sexy, and witty romantic comedy—perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne—about a twentysomething who lives out every woman's 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, she's 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 mother's footsteps, she's now an administrative assistant at an insurance agency—or 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 she's hiring male heartbreakers for the first time, Brinkley's no longer so sure she's doing the right thing—especially 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 who's 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 aren't always who they appear to be.

With Sonia Hartl's "bitingly funny" (Publishers Weekly) prose, Heartbreak for Hire is a clever romcom you and your girlfriends won't be able to stop talking about.

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  • Release date

    July 27, 2021

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781797126036
      • File size: 250099 KB
      • Duration: 08:41:02

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 24, 2021
      YA author Hartl (Not Your #Lovestory) makes her adult debut with a fun and flirty but uneven rom-com. Brinkley Saunders is slowly recovering from her disastrous graduate school experience and the devastating breakup that shattered her self-confidence. Though her mother believes she works in insurance, she’s really a skilled operator at Heartbreak for Hire, a business that helps avenge women who’ve been mistreated by men—for a hefty price. Brinkley hopes to use the fantastic pay to one day afford her dream of opening an art gallery. But her plans could be derailed by her current target, Mark Cavanaugh, a man so attractive that Brinkley temporarily forgets about sabotage and the pair of them wind up back at his place. Things get stickier still when Mark shows up at Brinkley’s work shortly thereafter as one of the first ever male Heartbreakers. Brinkley’s determined not to let him distract her from her goals—but their chemistry proves hard to resist. Hartl’s premise is appealing, but the story sometimes misses the mark: Brinkley’s admittedly bad experiences make her mean-spirited and endlessly insecure, and the revenge schemes are sometimes too dark to be amusing. Still, fans of Lyssa Kay Adams and Christina Lauren are likely to enjoy the sexy hero and nonstop banter. Agent: Rebecca Podos, Rees Literary.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      With a twist on the typical spurned lover's revenge, narrator Shaina Summerville delivers a range of emotions in this audiobook. Brinkley, a 20-something woman who spends much of the book reliving a previous bad relationship, meets Mark, a decent guy who is caught in the politics of academia. Summerville captures most of the characters' angst and despair, though at times the dialogue is stiff and the men's voices are not quite distinctive enough. This reviewer found some of Brinkley's antics and Mark's decisions to be annoying and was not able to become caught up in the story despite Summerville's delivery. B.E.S. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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