THE BOOK OF LUKE

Emily Abbott is through being nice. She's done following the rules (even if she still can't bring herself to stand in the express line if she has more than twelve items ? she's working on it). And she knows exactly who to blame: the opposite sex.

All the guys she thought she could rely on have turned out to be totally unreliable: her boyfriend breaks up with her the very morning she?s moving to Boston, the admissions officer who implied she was a shoo in for early acceptance to Brown sent her a lovely little deferral letter instead; and the father who was moving her family across the country has decided to stay behind to tie up loose ends. Emily's going to break the nice habit if it kills her, and she?s decided that now is a good time to start.

Because Emily has an idea. She and her two best friends should write a handbook for guys, an instruction manual that teaches them how to treat girls, something that they can use as a reference guide to avoid all the glaring Guy Don'ts so many of their classmates seemed to have mastered.

But writing a handbook is one thing, making sure it works is another.

So when her friends decide that the nice girl is the one who should test out the Guide (after all, who would ever suspect the girl voted most likely to be nice would have ulterior motive), Emily has to prove she can change Luke Preston - the guy who broke her best friend's heart and who embodies everything she despises about the opposite sex. This isn't just Emily's chance to not be nice, it's her chance to get even.

Now all of a sudden their covert operation calls for Emily to get close to the guy who epitomizes everything the handbook is supposed to change. Only Emily doesn't just find herself trying to prove their handbook works, she finds herself falling for Luke. And everyone knows a nice girl doesn't fall for her best friend's boyfriend ? and she certainly doesn?t lie to everyone about it. Maybe Emily's not so nice after all...