Amory Blaine is an accomplished, attractive Princeton student who aspires to greatness. Called to serve during the First World War, Amory returns after the war and settles in New York where he falls in love with Rosalind Connage, a beautiful debutante with aspirations of her own. At turns wildly optimistic and bitterly cynical, This Side of Paradise is the story of what happens to love when it becomes distorted by greed. Published in 1920, This Side...

In order to support her ten children, Evelyn Ryan enters and wins a commercial jingle writing contest.

Advertising executive Maddie Fitzgerald, in the midst of a career crisis, must land the profitable Brehmer's Dog Chow account, lest her advertising agency go under. Thus, when she learns that she is the next target of a serial killer, she sees her predicament as more of a nuisance than a true fright. Nonetheless, FBI agent Sam McCabe sets up surveillance from inside her apartment, and a steamy romance ensues.

Still grieving the loss of his wife and the rest of his life, Alan Christoffersen starts walking the one thousand miles between South Dakota and St. Louis. Along the way, he meets a mysterious woman who follows him for nearly a hundred miles, a ghost hunter who searches for his wife in graveyards, and an elderly Polish man who gives Alan a lift and shares a memorable story with him.

Pillow talk: Two single professionals find themselves sharing a party line - and a whole lot more - when they get their lines crossed. Lover come back: Business gets mixed with pleasure when two advertising executives go after the same account. Send me no flowers: A hypochrondriac gets the wrong diagnosis and decides to arrange for a 'future' husband for his very confused wife.