But Lisa's just not ready. At her sister's wedding she ducks when the bridal bouquet comes floating her way, and the only "eligible bachelor" in Lisa's life is her beloved gay cousin, Dodie. Ditching her life as an underpaid, oversexed publishing drone in Manhattan, Lisa takes a lucrative spot at a more conservative company, and begins writing -- on company time -- a novel that pokes fun at corporate life.Enter Lisa's main character: her new boss, Eben Strauss. A man of manners and caution, Strauss manages to bring out the best bad girl in Lisa. And before they know it, two very different people from two very different worlds are doing the one thing you should never do at the office: falling in love.In her funny, familiar, heartbreaking new novel, the award-winning author of Blue ltalian weaves a tale of family, work, sex, and love -- and of all the things we try to leave behind but never really can. . . .