Myth & Magic: Helen of Troy, New York — Paula Detmer Riggs

MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS...

With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Murphy has given up on love. Now her sole passion is to forge a cosmetics empire from a salon in her Georgia backwoods garage...until she runs-up against a sweet-tongued Yankee business rival with a heart of stone that only she can melt.

Mona Lisa Lefkowitz has a generous spirit but a very smart mouth. She thinks she's an ugly duckling who will never turn into a swan and has decided that no one could ever love someone like her--least of all her handsome best friend (and the subject of her dreams) when he learns she once posed for a Paris artist wearing nothing but a smile.

Helen DiLorio left her home in suburban Troy, New York for a high-powered job creating fantasy vacations for Greek Isle Lines. Since her own romantic idyll was smashed long ago, she's settled for a sensible, unromantic lifestyle. But Helen's well-ordered world is about to be shaken up by a sensual stranger from her past who could make her dreams come true.