Taylor Gayle advertises in The Town Crier for a male to date, but Max Stuart misprints her ad to indicate she's looking for a "sadomasochistic male to mate" and includes her address. To atone for his mistakes, Max becomes her live-in protector. Now, who's going to protect this high school librarian from the unbelievably sexy newspaper editor? And who's going to save Max from this feisty Plain Jane's charms? Max finds Taylor in her long skirts and oversized specs as tantalizing as a package in plain brown wrap with no return address. She thinks he looks like a CEO but can't handle the simplest task. She thinks he's short on ambition. He thinks she should relax. She wants a serious man. He wants a fun-loving woman. They want one another.
Neither are what they seem. But while these two fake their ways into each other's lives, they find a love that s real.
Set in the slower, more print-oriented '80's world, a series of typos in the Personals section of a local paper set off a cascade of funny, off-the wall events. There's a kind of extended family saga going on, too, with twin sisters, and the hero's own family crazies. Traditional on-again, off-again romance tale with lots of twists and turns. Fun!