Mixed Messages

A job offer at Portland’s Oregonian Times seemed like an ideal placement, until she learns exactly what she’d be doing. Writing an advice column for lonely hearts wasn’t quite what Carly Barnett had envisioned, but it was a beginning. Mark Holbrook does nothing to disguise his disdain for the new staff reporter—if you could 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.