No one knows that better than Monique St. Cyr, parochial school dropout, dieter extraordinaire, and wanna-be investigative reporter with pit bull tenacity. Monique, obituary writer for a tabloid-style newspaper in Portland, Maine, lives next door to her mother, Anne Marie, an erotic fiction author. Anne Marie enlists Monique's help to do research for her next book about couples who meet online . . . by filling out several personals for her daughter.