Summary

Welcome to alternative dating . . . the tenth circle of hell DATING RULE #1 Keep an open mind . . . and your phone number handy. It started simply enough. The editor of Tess Magazine demanded an assignment about dating practices for the urban set. Something fun. Something sexy. Something that the three women working on the article -- Julia, Samantha and Abby -- could research and really get into. DATING RULE #2 Engage your reader. If he's hot, buy him a drink. Suddenly Julia seems smitten with a stranger she met during a speed-dating session. Samantha's research into coffeehouse dating is less engaging than the naughty e- mails she's been getting from her "pen pal" in Italy. And Abby is too busy dealing with her new "roommate" -- an Irish photographer who looks like sex in pants -- to get much work done. So how do you write about relationships when your own love life looks like something caught in the garbage disposal?