
In 1999, Lincoln O'Neill is hired to read the flagged emails of a Nebraska newspaper's staff, and instead of reporting Beth and Jennifer, two friends who chat about everything, he finds himself falling for Beth before he has ever seen her.
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Shay Goldstein, a producer at Seattle's public radio station, is told to co-host a new show about relationships with Dominic Yun, the newcomer she resents, on one condition from the station: they have to pretend to be exes.

A year in the diary of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something Londoner counting calories, cigarettes and units of alcohol, torn between her charming, caddish boss Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy, a stiff barrister her mother keeps pushing at her.

Alex Claremont-Diaz, son of the American president, has a public feud with Prince Henry of Wales, and after it ends with both of them falling into a royal wedding cake, the two are ordered to stage a friendship for the cameras.

Georgie McCool, a TV comedy writer whose marriage is in trouble, stays in Los Angeles to work over Christmas while her husband takes their daughters to Omaha, and finds that the old yellow phone in her childhood bedroom lets her talk to him in 1998, before they were married.

Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, assistants to the two chief executives of a newly merged publishing company, share an office and loathe each other, and a promotion only one of them can win turns their war of games personal.
Over drinks, Jaine Bright and three friends draw up a list of what they would want in Mr. Perfect, and when it is published and becomes a sensation, one of them is murdered, leaving Jaine leaning on the infuriating cop next door.

Becky Bloomwood writes about personal finance for a London magazine and cannot stop shopping, and as the letters from her bank grow sterner she tries cutting back, earning more and hiding from her debts, with diminishing success.

Sally Milz writes sketches for a late-night comedy show and has watched ordinary male colleagues date glamorous stars, but when pop singer Noah Brewster hosts one week and they hit it off, she is sure it cannot be real.

Shiloh and Cary were inseparable at their Omaha high school, then lost touch. Fourteen years later, she is a divorced mother of two and he is in the navy, and they meet again at a friend's wedding.

Jane Hayes, a New Yorker who cannot get over Mr Darcy, inherits from her great-aunt three weeks at an English country house where guests dress, speak and flirt as if it were the Regency.

Liz Buxbaum, a high school senior who lives by romantic comedies, asks her irritating next-door neighbour, Wes Bennett, to help her win back her childhood crush, Michael, who has just moved back to town.

Ayesha Shamsi, a substitute teacher in Toronto who would rather be a poet, clashes with Khalid, a devout young man in a white robe who disapproves of her, in a Pride and Prejudice set in a close Muslim community.