What She Wants

Jonathan Templar has loved Lissa Castle since they were kids. She has never looked at him as a romantic prospect, and he knows it. Their high school reunion is his last chance to change her mind.

He is not the only one stuck. His poker buddy Kyle Long keeps losing the office receptionist he likes to men who are taller but no better. Adam Edwards is the most successful of the group, yet his wife has thrown him out, and his home life is in ruins.

At a library sale in Icicle Falls, Jonathan picks up a romance novel by Vanessa Valentine, a top-selling romance author. He decides she can teach him what women want. His friends laugh when they see him reading it, but before long they start reading the novels too, and treat them as practical lessons in love.

Poker night turns into book club night. This is a contemporary romance with a comic tone, told through a circle of male friends who are trying to become better partners. The reunion looms over Jonathan's story, and the question for all three men is whether what they learn from the books will win back the women they want.