Harlequin Duets, $5.99, ISBN 0-373-44122-3
Contemporary Romance, 2001

How To Write A Tragic Romantic Comedy with Cara Summers

1. Watch too many Nora Ephron comedies.
2. Heroines doing stupid things are funny.
3. Heroines doing stupid things and going crazy over furry animals are funnier.
4. Police officers like Jack DeRosa have nothing better to do than to go undercover to pose as a pet caretaker’s assistant. Why? To catch a thief who is stealing from the clients of Riley, said pet caretaker.
5. Old women acting stupid are funny.
6. Heroines doing stupid things are funny.
7. Heroines doing stupid things and walking into dark alleyways alone to save the kitten they hear mewing are noble. And funny.
8. Old women acting stupid are funny.
9. Heroines acting stupid are funny.
10. Wonder why book – shredded form – is returned via Fed-Ex to you by irate reader.