Love Lessons — Susan Lute

Romance versus Science. Which one will win?

The love of Lacey Daniels life is her comic strip, Love Lessons 101, with principle players, Georgette and Frank, more like real people than made-up characters. Georgette wants a man. And not just any man. A real man who can weather life's storm. Lacey just wants to make the old-fashioned idea of courtship look sexy and fun for her readers, and she wants national syndication. Two things stand in her way. A contrived contest pitting her romance against the science of a new book, The Power Of Pheromones. And the book's author, hunky, catch-your-breath Zane Tyler.

Zane Tyler's mission is to give his sister and niece a stable, comfortable life. When he literally bumps into a beautiful stranger on the way to giving a lecture on how women choose their mates by smell, he's surprised to learn she makes a living by promoting old-fashioned romance as the primary ingredient to finding that one special person. Before he can get out of the line of fire, he's caught up in a battle of words that quickly escalates into a hokey competition where he has to come out the winner or lose everything he's worked so hard to build.