Red Dress Ink — Multiple Authors

• Mar-2002
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For 29-year-old Hannah O'Dowd, finding a decent man in Portland, Oregon, is like pulling teeth! Luckily, the self-employed clothing designer has a job she loves and friends to help ease the pain: oversexed Cassie (always good to have the opposite ...

• Apr-2002
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Ex-Girlfriend Emma Carter has a lot on her mind. Her boyfriend got a life -- in L.A. Her hairdresser found God. And that extra 10 pounds of "relationship flab" she acquired while falling in love with a commitment-phobe has just put her out of the run...

• Jun-2002
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Ever moved to a city you didn't know, for a guy who wasn't worth it...all because you thought you were in love? Sarah Walker has. She's just moved to L.A. and changed her whole life in anticipation of cohabitation with her fiance, Benjamin. But...

• Jul-2002
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Twenty-three-year-old Jersey girl Eve Vitali is on the verge of something...whether it be a relationship, the fabulous life that she reads about in the Styles section of the New York Times or a nervous breakdown. Despite her Jackie O. suit, Eve works...

• Aug-2002
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With only 207 more shopping days until thirty, Darcie Elizabeth Baxter is searching for...an office with a door on it, a great apartment in Manhattan, and a man who's interested in commitment. Instead, she's been spending her days battling her co-...

• Sep-2002
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In the space of a few hours, thirty-year-old Ginger Petrocelli had gone from bride-to-be to bride-who-never-was. So here she sat, alone in her cramped apartment, wedding crinolines askew, drowning her sorrows in a hundred-dollar bottle of Veuve Cliqu...

• Oct-2002
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Allison can't wait for Jodine and Emma to move in to her apartment -- until she realizes having roommates means living in a fishbowl:You are never alone.When one small, slightly accidental fire leads to one big repair bill, all efforts to avoid each ...

• Nov-2002
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The choices Casey Evers has made in her twenty-six years aren't exactly making her happy. In fact, her life is so on course -- college, law school, boyfriend, job offer -- that it's actually off. So, before she slides into fourteen-hour days at a Chi...

• Dec-2002
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Dear Lizzie, My marriage is in dire straits. I know you must get hundreds of people writing to you with this problem, but I think my husband may be having an affair.... -- Name & Address Withheld Lizzie Ford is an urban sexpert, and her hip...

• Jan-2003
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"Real life was messy. Sloppy bathrooms I could handle. Love I could not." For thirty-three-year-old Cassie Hayes, life is about to get messier. She can't cook, unless you count coffee as a meal (she does). She can't commit (just ask her ex-husband...

• Feb-2003
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Faith Martin, AM-UK!'s face of the morning weather, is used to delivering the forecast. But this surprisingly unglam celeb is not used to being told the forecast -- especially when it concerns her own marriage. After years of wedded bliss, there isn'...

• Mar-2003
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Life at Fashionista magazine can be a real bitch. Especially when you work for one. Vig Morgan finally worked her way out of the assistant-for-the-bitch-from-hell trenches only to get stuck in a sea of editors. But Vig isn't like the other associa...

• Apr-2003
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A Fancy Affair Bridal Salon Forest Hills, Queens "Did you know that one of your hips is higher than the other?" the seamstress asked me in a totally conversational tone. The bridesmaid to my left eyed me in the mirror, then her gaze dropped to m...

• Apr-2003
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Jo just can't figure out how it happened. One day she's blissfully cohabiting with Dan; the next she's moving out, wondering why Dan isn't chasing after her. Or at least suffering minor emotional trauma and sexual impotence. And was it really necessa...

• May-2003
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When one ex-boyfriend gets married, a girl can laugh it off. With two, she begins to get nervous. But three? Three? Angie DiFranco is starting to take it personally. What is it about her that doesn't incite men to plunk down large sums of money in...

• Jun-2003
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Carrie Pilby doesn't fit in -- and she's pretty much given up trying. A year out of college and settling in to life in the big city, this nineteen-year-old genius believes everyone she meets is immoral, sex obsessed and hypocritical, and the only per...

• Jul-2003
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Twenty-nine-year-old Jane Taylor gets so blissfully caught up in the fact that she's pregnant -- and tells everyone -- that she can't own up to the truth when she finds out that she never was. Her live-in boyfriend, a suspender-snapping Do Right Dudl...

• Jul-2003
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Is her chance to have it all shrinking along with her waistline? All Evelyn Mays wants is to be the perfect bride in a size 8 Vera Wang wedding dress. Call her superficial, but when your boyfriend has turned up at your office and dramatically prop...

• Aug-2003
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In a moment of madness, Ali Kingston, wife and mother of three, skips work to spend the day with Christian, a gorgeous street artist fifteen years her junior. Midlife crisis or whatever, it escalates when Ali's husband, Ed, equates her minor indiscre...

• Aug-2003
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Wedding singer Georgia Ray Miller dreams of becoming a "blues goddess," but her own doubts keep getting in the way. Besides, she's got enough to keep her occupied, living in a huge haunted (former) brothel with her hippie grandmother, her surrogate b...

• Sep-2003
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milkrun'milk run (plural) milkruns noun 1. a routine and often slow journey esp. taken from the delivery of milk 2. the process of dating to no avail Of all the ways to find myself Single Again, ...

• Sep-2003
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Lucy Madison's life is spinning out of control. After her grandfather crashes his motorcycle for the last time, this frustrated artist is left picking up the pieces (not to mention holding the ashes). But fulfilling his dying wish of befriending his ...

• Oct-2003
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Everyone thinks Diana Christopher is losing it. Considering she's just driven her car into the front window of Davey's Cafe, they might be on to something. All Diana wants is to be normal -- but life for this thirty-two-year-old waitress is anythi...

• Oct-2003
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When Sunny Langstein decides to pack up her Florida life and move in with her boyfriend in Manhattan, her big sister isn't thrilled. What modern-day twenty-four-year-old leaves her promising career, fabulous friends and perfect underground parking sp...

• Nov-2003
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A Clean Slate chronicles the days of Kelly McGraw, a Chicago woman who suddenly can't remember the last five months of her life, a time when she was dumped by her soon-to-be fiance and laid off by the company she thought would make her partner. Overw...

• Nov-2003
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A savvy, irresistible guide to being a princess in today's society follows Princess Jacqueline de Soignee as she adheres to the rules of royalty, while another bold, no-holds-barred guide introduces the world of "divadom" where self-confidence and sa...

• Nov-2003
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A savvy, irresistible guide to being a princess in today's society follows Princess Jacqueline de Soignee as she adheres to the rules of royalty, while another bold, no-holds-barred guide introduces the world of "divadom" where self-confidence and sa...

• Nov-2003
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He proposed. She had her doubts. She said yes. Now what? Everyone tells Sarah Giles how lucky she is to be engaged to Paul O'Brian -- a handsome hotshot who's financially secure, knows how to throw the perfect dinner party...and taught Sarah how t...

• Dec-2003
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Between the reality of being six weeks pregnant by a guy she's dated for two months and the fantasy of pushing a baby stroller down Columbus Avenue with a wedding ring on her finger were a lot of possibilities for twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan publi...

• Dec-2003
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TV producer Rebecca Cole has seen better days. Like the day her cartoon creation, Esme, made her a hit and scored her a promotion. That was a good day. But now that her roommate has decided to heed her therapist and appreciate the simpler things in l...

• Dec-2003
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Laura Taylor thought she had a done deal with a Hollywood producer. Turns out the only deal her agent closed was his own disappearing act. (Rumor has it he's in rehab somewhere in North Dakota.) But a chance encounter with a "guy who knows a guy" ope...

• Jan-2004
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Karrie Kline had heard it all. But her search for the perfect man had never been all that pressing until her laugh lines became more noticeable, she attended one too many bridal showers and woke up next to far too many never-gonna-commit men. Sud...

• Jan-2004
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Her diary had never let her down, never told her it was too busy, never not been there for her. Unlike men! Now the unthinkable had happened.... For high-flying London lawyer (and self-confessed control freak) Sam Washington, accidentally leavi...

• Jan-2004
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Tallulah West thinks she's got everything figured out, from her interrupted career path to the men in her life. (Career path = anything to displease Dad. Nick = trusty best friend. Dad = see career path.) But when her world is turned upside down (aga...

• Feb-2004
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Who does an advice columnist ask for help? Thirty-six-ish, well, thirty-eight...no, actually, thirty-nine-year-old advice columnist Rose Costelloe thought she'd solved all her problems when she got married after a whirlwind two-month courtship. Bu...

• Feb-2004
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Top Two Don'ts for the Office Party • Don't dress in a revealing manner. (Translation: Don't wear the sexy scarlet, size-eight dress you couldn't fit into three months ago. The one that flaunts your firmed-up cleavage and newly discovered colla...

• Feb-2004
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What happens when a political wordsmith finds herself at a loss for words? Libby McIssac is known for two things: catching bridal bouquets (her record's an even dozen) and having a way with words. Since the former isn't really something that looks g...

• Mar-2004
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Gert Healy thought she was finished with dating. She thought she'd never again have to worry about what to wear and what to say and whether she was pretty enough. She thought that she'd be picking out strollers and booties for the children she and he...

• Mar-2004
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER? Tao Tandy can't wait to flee her sleepy life (safe fiance, dead-end job) and migrate to the big city to find fame and fortune as a food photographer. First, however, she has to find somewhere to live.... Luck is on her side ...

• Mar-2004
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As Americans throw themselves body, soul and pocketbook into the latest weight-loss craze, Maggie O'Leary's informed column about the pitfalls of dieting is the one sane voice crying out against the dietocracy. Plus-size Maggie, also known as America...

• Apr-2004
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With her marriage spiraling toward divorce, sexually confident and unapologetically sized-24 Sidney Stein finds herself drawn into an illicit affair with Geoffrey Fahl -- not only married and twenty years her senior, but also her father's business pa...

• Apr-2004
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When Katie Simpson discovers her boyfriend boffing "Fishpants Fraser," she vows to eat toenail clippings before getting involved again. Life as "the ginger spinster of Pelham Parish" will be lonely, but bearable as long as she shags lots of strangers...

• May-2004
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With humor, audacity and cunning, Michael Weinreb delves into the inner lives of young, single men as they weather the uncertainties of modern relationships, and comes up with observations so sly, in prose so disarming and precise, that girls and boy...

• May-2004
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She's heard all the lines. Now it's time for the truth! Charlie has to keep pinching herself to believe she's leaving Australia for a trip to Europe -- a generous gift from her family, who know how tough her life has been lately. But the last pers...

• May-2004
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There should be a four-letter word for beauty. She has more shoes than Sarah Jessica Parker and a skin-care system that could make Madonna swoon, but unlike her celebrity counterparts, Grace Noonan doesn't have it all. Her latest utterly-eligible-...

• Jun-2004
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Three's a crowd -- or is it? A trio of pals who, on their own, have utterly lost the dating game decide to team up. They trust each other with their lives; now they've got to trust each other with their love lives. Ruby, Louisa and guy friend Mart...

• Jun-2004
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For Lisa Maria, the decision to become a maid was simple: she was tired of nine-to-five office jobs and sick of falling for men she worked with. Performing manual labor for women seemed comparatively interesting and emotionally safe. Besides, wasn't ...

• Jul-2004
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She's heard all the lines. Now it's time for the truth! Charlie has to keep pinching herself to believe she's leaving Australia for a trip to Europe -- a generous gift from her family, who know how tough her life has been lately. But the last pers...

• Jul-2004
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The only way to come clean with everyone you've lied to -- and if you've lied to nearly everyone in your life -- is to come clean all at once. So what did I do? I threw a party, a New Year's Day party to launch my new life. And so Jane Taylo...

• Jul-2004
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For Nina, the path from singlehood to motherhood was easy. It's knowing what to do once she arrived that was the problem. When Nina met Jonathan through the personals, she thought he seemed nice enough. Little did she know that her quest for compa...

• Jul-2004
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Elle Medina must be qualified for something other than shopping and causing trouble, but when she moves to Santa Barbara after the disastrous end of her engagement, just what she's suited for isn't clear. Bartender? Private eye? Phone psychic? It see...

• Aug-2004
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Twenty-five-year-old Anna -- restless, famished and emotionally numb -- is following the long-cold trail of her father, a celebrated luthier, whose death has always haunted her. She has tracked his former business partner to a sailboat on Bellingham ...

• Aug-2004
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Holly Klein is an A-list celebrity with an army of assistants. Leo Monroe is a smart-talking DJ from the streets. She lives on Mulholland Drive; he lives on...someone else's sofa. But when Leo rescues Holly from a mugger, their two worlds collide, li...

• Aug-2004
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Teri thinks she's found the one, but is it possible that someone else has found him first? After knocking her down while rushing to catch the 6:07 from London, Jamie Duncan bandages Teri Carter's knee, buys her new stockings, seats her on the trai...

• Sep-2004
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Prepping for his new movie in the tiny town of Pinecob, West Virginia, up-and-coming actor Joshua Reed lands himself another drunk-driving conviction, this time involving a stolen limo, a dark country road and a cow. Rather than let him rot in jail f...

• Sep-2004
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Goombah to Gucci As the only granddaughter among seventeen grandsons of one of New York's reputed Mafia dons, Teddi Gallo has been surrounded by overprotective men all her life...not to mention those FBI agents tailing her family. But now, determine...

• Oct-2004
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Lena Sharpe wants her life to be the fabulous kind that movies are made of. She works in television, so she's familiar with the heroine, the hook and when to break for commercial. The problem is, she's always telling other people's stories. When will...

• Oct-2004
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Miranda Lyme, mezzo-soprano, is in love with the infamous -- and, okay, technically married -- conductor-composer Kurt Hancock. So what if he lives in London, and she...doesn't. Their secret rendezvous are more than enough -- for now. Besides, Mir...

• Oct-2004
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MB is for a M aster's in B usiness degree. Supposedly. It's also for: Multiple Bed-hopping Definitely Kimmy 's favorite subject. And who cares if her conquests are already taken? If only business school offered a minor in boyfriend embezzlement...

• Oct-2004
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From fast friends to fast girls... For shy, awkward Stella Gold, the only good thing to come out of junior high gym class was her friendship with Emily Martin, the effortlessly cool rebel. Emily is now a trendy New York fashion designer with a pen...

• Oct-2004
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A heat wave in Manhattan is enough to drive a girl crazy, and for Tracey Spadolini, a 24-year-old New York transplant who's been "left behind" for the summer, there's even more to sweat about. Her Slightly Significant Other, Will, will be returning f...

• Nov-2004
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Clothing designer Kyra Felis has never been one to worship celebrities -- she'd rather read a good book or make a blouse out of an old tablecloth. She marries Hollywood up-and-comer Declan McKenna for love, with no inkling of how his newfound notorie...

• Nov-2004
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You can take the girl out of Queens... Or can you? Because for five years, fashion assistant Ellie Levine was taking a halfhearted stab at it, commuting to Manhattan by day, trying desperately to keep secret her outerborough existence -- that acce...

• Dec-2004
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Rachel Benjamin and her friends aren't looking forward to Emma's wedding. The groom is a rat, and nobody can understand what Emma sees in him. So when he turns up dead on the morning of the ceremony, no one in the wedding party is all that upset. Not...

• Dec-2004
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A tipsy confession of infidelity during their engagement hadn't been the best start to Sarah's marriage. Blurting it out on their honeymoon wasn't exactly the best timing, either. Still, how could he complain? It had taken Paul O'Brian five years to ...

• Dec-2004
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Eloise Manfred just sold her soul to the wedding devil. In exchange for a free $100,000 dream wedding, she'll be featured in a trendy magazine as "Today's Modern Bride." So what if the advertisers dictate what she wears, eats and registers for? Fr...

• Jan-2005
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P.J.'s life is simple. Wake up at 2:00 p.m. In someone else's place, on someone else's couch. Shower. Clothes. Club. P.J.'s a punter -- someone who fills in if a DJ isn't able to make a gig. San Francisco is a hotbed of glam bands and alternative roc...

• Jan-2005
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A tale of two Mikes...and the one that got away Once upon a time in the 1980s, a girl named Beau was torn between two Mikes: did she prefer her high-school sweetheart or the sexy stranger she'd picked up in an airport bar? One she eventually marr...

• Jan-2005
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Wedding planner Jessica James has pulled off the society wedding of her career, but when it comes to her own Big Day, she gets cold feet. Does marriage still mean something, or is it simply so twentieth century? She looks at her nearest and dearest, ...

• Feb-2005
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One of the top wedding photographers in town, Liv Hetherington, steadfastly single, hates Valentine's Day. This year she's putting her foot down and has vowed there'll be no dinner party set-ups, speed-dating frenzies or any other form of accidental ...

• Feb-2005
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Single Clairvoyant Seeks Partner in Crime Some gifts are easy to return -- like the parrot earrings from Aunt Ruth -- but when your gift is clairvoyance, Tabitha Emery finds there is a definite No Refund Policy. Now she's having visions of black m...

• Feb-2005
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Voula Pavlopoulos won't be planning a big fat Greek wedding anytime soon. After a turbulent childhood and two-and-a-half former boyfriends -- if you can call them that -- Voula's content to have alone time in her crowded apartment and drinks with ...

• Mar-2005
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“What was I thinking? Sex for the very last time. That's what.” Five-O magazine lifestyle columnist Lu Nichols has led an ordinary life. Marriage. Career. Two kids. Now she's turning fifty, and the wear is showing. The kids are grown. The ...

• Mar-2005
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Want to know what'll be hot next season? Just ask Mim Warner, the best coolhunter in the business. But Mim's latest trend predictions (“slut” T-shirts for eight-year-old girls? Samurai swords for ten-year-old boys?) are troubling, to say the leas...

• Apr-2005
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When is a sleepover appropriate? A. When you have insomnia and you call your close friend... who also happens to be your handsome boss? B. When you're at a wedding and forced to share tight quarters with a good-looking groomsman? C. When sex is ...

• Apr-2005
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Meet Dalton Moss: quick-witted, impulsive, aggressively unambitious; a halfhearted assistant to a Hollywood events planner, she has a penchant for dive bars and abusing her mother's credit card. Meet Dalton's boyfriend, Roman: charming, intellectu...

• Apr-2005
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Lisa Maria Marino is taking her advice column on the road -- or abroad, actually. With her boyfriend, the enigmatic McAllister, researching his latest book in London, and her thirtieth birthday fast approaching, what better opportunity to take off...

• May-2005
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Looking to get away from it all? Try seven sunny days in an exotic Turkish resort. Club Aegee has luxurious accommodations, unlimited free cocktails and a gorgeous cosmopolitan staff who'll cater to your every need. Bride-to-be Rachel Buckley want...

• Jun-2005
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For Anne Olsen, new and improved is the only way to live. So how'd she fall for a secondhand man? Charlotte had the Malibu Barbie with a full wardrobe, Emily inherited a slightly used Barbie with two outfits and Anne was left with a one-armed, bal...

• Jun-2005
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Sharing a beach house on Fire Island seems like a killer way for best friends Zoe, Sage and Nick to spend summer together. But just as they're dreaming of sunset margaritas and late-night barbecues, the body of their house hostess washes up on the be...

• Jul-2005
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• Jul-2005
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I need to change my life. On the surface, it doesn't look too bad. Great body, check. Pretty face, check. Job, check. Chicken pox. Check. Stuck in her Danbury, Connecticut, condo in self-imposed exile until she's contagion-free, Scarlett Jan...

• Jul-2005
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"Tart is my favorite word. I love what it stirs in the mind -- the synesthesia of flavor mixing with colors: reds, oranges and apple-greens, gleaming with cheap temptation, like Jolly Ranchers. It's been a goal of my twenties to live a tart life; I w...

• Aug-2005
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Q: What turns thirty-five-year-old graduate student Shari Diamond on? A: Anything British. Forget tall, dark and handsome. For Shari there's only tall, pasty and from Across the Pond (despite her aunt's advice to find a nice Jewish boy). Ever sin...

• Aug-2005
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After writing her own obituary as an experiment, Holly Hastings realizes that her life isn't exactly blazing a trail of glory. The twenty-eight-year-old is broke, bored at work and perpetually single. But after watching an old Marilyn Monroe movie sh...

• Sep-2005
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Ghastly new home. Potentially adulterous husband.... Not quite the fresh start in the country she was promised. A fixer-upper in the sticks was the last place city girl Ro Skews expected to live. But her husband, Marcus, wants it -- and all the...

• Sep-2005
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When Billy Rendell suddenly gets everything she wants, it turns out to be the last thing she needs... A long-awaited promotion. Freedom from emotional baggage. A newly -- ahem -- amorous husband. What's wrong with this picture? Well...everything....

• Sep-2005
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An initial investment is all she needs.... The stereotype is "starving artist" not "starving entrepreneur." However, business-school grad Maddy Banks lives in her office, works 24/7 and hasn't shopped in so long that her closet has official histo...

• Oct-2005
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Lola was the hottest publicist in London for one of the city's hippest members' clubs. She had fabulous friends, an apartment to die for -- and her boss, Charlie, was the sweetest man alive. But as celebrity guests enjoyed her latest cocktail party, ...

• Oct-2005
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After a car crash spoils Amy Sheldon's happily-ever-after, she realizes it's a long road to recovery... The house she rents is being sold and the flower shop she manages in downtown Baltimore is going out of business, which leaves her with devot...

• Oct-2005
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I'm Lily, a New York newspaper columnist, mother of two, divorcee of one and partner in crime to Michael, English professor, novelist and best friend extraordinaire. We've been friends forever -- well, since I nearly burned down our apartment buildin...

• Nov-2005
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Dinah Nichols, PR chick for Green World International, knows how to spin a story. She has to, otherwise how else would rescuing loons get the media attention it deserves? But a visit from Higher Management guru Ian Trutch means she'll have to put som...

• Dec-2005
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When everything's going right, it's a sure sign that things are about to go very, very wrong. Rachel Benjamin's life might look glamorous but she has worked into the early morning on more nights, canceled more weekend plans and slept in more Holid...

• Dec-2005
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Roxanne Hastings has wanted to be a director ever since she started storyboarding home movies and demanding that her teacher recast her grade-school play... Even though working her way up the ranks of a film crew has been slow and sometimes grueli...

• Jan-2006
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Can a lawyer who specializes in breaking up couples find her own happy ending? Hazel Chamberlayne can. She's turning forty. And do you know what? She's excited about it. Successful by her own standards, flanked by a group of magnetic friends, she ...

• Jan-2006
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Meet the Members of the Breakup Club... Lucy Miller-Masterson: Superstar editor of bestselling books, supermom to a precocious preteen and superwife of a hot doctor...until she learns her husband's New Year's resolution is "Leave Lucy." Miranda...

• Feb-2006
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There are a lot of things worse than being slightly engaged...being entirely broke, completely alone and wholly perplexed. It's been a year and a half since Tracey and Jack moved in together, and everything's totally perfect -- well, okay, almost ...

• Feb-2006
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Q: How does a thirty-five-year-old newspaper reporter with a vanilla-sounding name like Jenny George know so much about men? A: She doesn't. When her live-in boyfriend made a relationship trade-in (for the lingerie model starring in the ad camp...

• Mar-2006
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Want to know what I, The Dairy Queen, wish for? * World peace. * A positive pregnancy test for my sister. * A best friend who suffers momentary sanity. * A lifetime supply of "treaties" for my dog. * And something -- anything -- that would...

• Mar-2006
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Q: How does Heather Greenblotz, the thirty-one-year-old heiress to the world's leading matzo company, celebrate Passover? A: Alone. In her Manhattan apartment. With an extremely unkosher ham and cheese panini. But this year will be different. T...

• Apr-2006
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When a mystery writer cries bloody murder, everyone blames her overactive imagination... Thriller scribe Sophie Katz is as hard-boiled as a woman who drinks Grande Caramel Brownie Frappuccinos can be. So Sophie knows it's not paranoia or post-div...

• Apr-2006
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A Fact About Frogging: With new species discovered every day, it's hard to find a rule to catch a good frog, except to say that when it comes to frogs there are no rules at all. Karrie Kline had kissed her share of frogs. But when it came to f...

• May-2006
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Sophie Katz has just offered a man $12,000 for his services... Is she desperate or just meshugeneh? Considering the kind of disasters that usually befall the half-black, half-Jewish mystery writer, probably both. Because the last time Sophie saw s...

• May-2006
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Imagine your mother being more determined to find a man than you've ever been. When single-again newspaper columnist Suzie Fletcher announces that her only wish is for her and her daughter to be dating someone by the time of her sixtieth birthday ...

• Jun-2006
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Some true lies of a drama queen: * My name is Elle Medina. (Absolutely true!) * I'm a professional psychic. (Completely accurate. Except for the "professional" part...and the "psychic" part.) * I'm planning my best friend's wedding. (Maya o...

• Jul-2006
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Lynn Blanchett's Steps to Happiness: Step 1: Find a job. (Done! I'm doing PR for hotshot young designer Muriel B. -- which I'm totally unqualified for.) Step 2: Find a man. (Check! There's a rich, gorgeous man chasing me...so what if I find him...

• Jul-2006
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In her most accomplished and entertaining novel to date, Carole Matthews takes her London-weary heroine on a life-changing trek through the Himalayas, where she ponders the meaning of such concepts as success, love, family -- and even civilization. ...

• Aug-2006
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Gabby Wolf has pretty much, almost definitely (this close!) come to a decision: She's trading in Phoenix (nice but uneventful life with boyfriend) for Manhattan (dream job as producer for highly successful news show). Then Cam swoops in and gives her...

• Sep-2006
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Broken, smashed and stomped in the mud That's how Charlotte Bell's heart ended up the last time she let her emotions heat up on a nanny assignment. So taking a new position in frigid Iceland, working for Ambassador Edgar Rawlings, might be just wh...

• Oct-2006
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Which is more unlikely? Meeting a single, straight, reasonably attractive, willing-to-commit man? Or discovering a secret cache of magic books? For good girl Jane Madison, neither has a shot in hell of coming true--until the day she finds a ...

• Oct-2006
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Stella Moon isn't much for change. Why else would she have left her hometown to study music in London only to scurry back to teach scales to overgrown brats and the occasional curious adult? But sometimes you can't escape change, especially when it's...

• Nov-2006
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Love in the time of Top 40 . . . Echo Brennan's life is stuck on pause, instead of chasing her dream job at Disc, music's hottest magazine, she's still writing for a small-time paper. And helping her boyfriend, Matt, who's had a record deal for y...

• Dec-2006
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Ever wished your boss would drop dead? Of course not. Well, not really. And neither had Rachel Benjamin--until she finds herself working for Wall Street terror Glenn Gallagher on his latest pet project. Rachel thinks the deal--and Glenn--are more ...

• Jan-2007
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When did Abby Foote's life become an episode of Law & Order? First, a former boyfriend (who dumped Abby in the most humiliating way imaginable) is found murdered the day his engagement is announced. Then two other ex-boyfriends report attempts...

• Mar-2007
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With meticulous career planning and a couple of dirty martinis, there is very little that New York City investment banker Vina Chopra can't do. And now that sh's decided to get serious about if nding her mate, there is very little that Vina won't try...

• Apr-2007
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Sophie Katz has just offered a man $12,000 for his services... Is she desperate or just meshugeneh? Considering the kind of disasters that usually befall the half-black, half-Jewish mystery writer, probably both. Because the last time Sophie saw s...

• Apr-2007
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When her ex-boyfriend, Trip, gets engaged to Hollywood's latest It Girl, Manhattan attorney Brooke Miller plans to attend the wedding. Who says a modern girl can't stay friends with her ex? Besides, Brooke's got her sexy Scottish fiance, Douglas, to ...

• Aug-2007
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On the outs with her live-in boyfriend, Eve Crenshaw flees Manhattan for a different kind of island life off the coast of Maine. With the help of her college roommate, Natasha, and her friend Kim, she rents a seaside cottage and waits for her boyfrie...

• Sep-2007
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MIND HER OWN BUSINESS? LEAVE IT TO THE EXPERTS? NOT A CHANCE. Sophie Katz's relationship with the irresistible and occasionally insufferable P.I. Anatoly Darinsky is on the fritz when a friend recruits Sophie's investigation skills to decode her...

• Oct-2007
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Those TV witches have got it made.... Wiggle a nose. Dinner's on the table! Hop on a broom. Next stop, Tahiti! Unfortunately, nose-wiggling doesn't cut it in real life. So witch or not, Jane Madison must deal with her insane work schedule, best-fr...

• Dec-2007
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Meeting the in-laws was the least of her problems... There's nothing like being the guest of honor at an engagement party to remind a person she has commitment issues, but Rachel Benjamin has finally put her neuroses behind her. A weekend wi...

• Jan-2008
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Twenty-three-year-old Jersey girl Eve Vitali is on the verge of something . . . whether it be a relationship, the fabulous life that she reads about in the Styles section of the New York Times or a nervous breakdown. Despite her Jackie O. suit, Eve w...

• Feb-2008
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Scraping by for years on pub gigs and odd jobs, Fern Kendal has always suspected she might actually have a decent voice. But caring for her feuding parents and sickly nephew took all her energy--until now. During one crazy week, she lands a spot on t...

• Mar-2008
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s a junior associate at the most-sought-after marital mediation and divorce boutique in Beverly Hills, Monica is part mediator, part lawyer, part marriage therapist and all celebrity babysitter. She's so good at her job that she's handling the firm's...

• Apr-2008
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If only her mother had a clue. Shy and insecure all her life, fifteen-year-old Hannah finally feels as if she belongs. She acts in the theater club production and hangs out with a super-kissable boy, and her new best friend, Zoë, has turned her o...

• Jun-2008
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Ruby Miller and her fiance, Tom Truby, have questions 1 to 14 almost covered. It's question 15 that has the Maine schoolteacher stumped: Is their relationship strong enough to withstand challenges? Challenges like...Ruby's twin sister, Stella. The...

• Jul-2008
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Planning a wedding can be a trying experience... A little prewedding anxiety is normal for every bride, and Manhattan attorney Brooke Miller isn't worried. She's got the loving support of the world's greatest guy, so planning her nuptials should b...

• Jul-2008
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It seemed exciting at first, but after two and a half years in New York, Tracey has to admit her life...well, sucks. Sure, she makes a decent living as a copywriter, but Blaire Barnett Advertising is a cutthroat world that basically swallows her life...

• Aug-2008
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When the daughter of a politically connected CEO is found dead in her car off the Maine coast, her father wants the best investigation money can buy. He demands that Brigid Ashbury determine the cause of death: was it a simple car crash or did som...