A job offer at Portland's Oregonian Times seems like an ideal placement, until she learns exactly what she'll be doing. Writing an advice column for lonely hearts wasn't quite what Carly Barnett envisioned, but it's a beginning.

Mark Holbrook does nothing to disguise his disdain for the new staff reporter - if you can call Carly's column reporting. Still, he can't deny his attraction to her. But that doesn't mean he'll take her advice - not even if she holds the key to his own lonely heart.