[Older edition now out of print. Rewrite and re-publish in progress from Fantastic Fiction Publishing.]
Waitress Michelle Medena was used to the attention she got from men. They were always hitting on her, but none seemed interested in anything but her good looks. Then one night Zak Tover, the teaching assistant in her economics class, sat at her table. With his socialist-themed t-shirts and tendency to leave extravagant tips he was like no one she'd ever met. He seemed to find her beauty of little value.
Zak Tover was completely intimidated by beautiful women and knew better than to try to hit on them. Michelle, however, was particularly difficult to ignore, especially when her papers revealed a clever mind behind all that loveliness. Still, they come from very different socio-economic backgrounds and Zak was sure there could never be a fair trade between them…that is, until Michelle's wayward brother stepped in with his own radical economic theory and changed the exchange value.