One woman's quest for Mr. Right, the Great American novel, and the perfect knit stitch When literary agent Kendra Porter loses her heart, she has a tendency to lose her head. She's impulsively accepted three bended-knee marriage proposals. But this flighty fiancee has never made it to the altar. Her MO is to return the rings with heart-rending breakup speeches. No more For long-term relationship success, she adopts a more pragmatic approach to dating in hopes of clicking with a different type of guy. Rival literary agent Dominic Tobias is a sexy, charming, hipster sort, in other words, Kendra's usual type to a tee. While he induces the best kind of tingles, he also triggers her flight response. The last few women Dominic pursued banished him to that guy purgatory of no return - the Friend Zone. His laid-back, no-pressure courting style has been lousy for his love life as of late. With Kendra, he tries the opposite - a full-court-press strategy. Kendra is drawn to Dominic, but she can'