Paperback Romance

Putting your best foot forward has never been so sexy - or so deliciously funny - as in this entertaining, oddball comedy that proves that it's worth it to go to outrageous lengths for the one you love. Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship. —Mike Myers <mmyers@ucsd.edu> Putting your best foot forward has never been so sexy - or so deliciously funny - as in this "entertaining, oddball comedy" (TNT's "Rough Cuts") that proves that it's worth it to go to outrageous lengths for the one you love. While reading aloud some of her provocative prose, Sophie, a romance novelist (Gia Carides) meets an impressed eavesdropper (Anthony LaPaglia) who turns out to be the man of her dreams. but having been disabled since childhood, Sophie lacks the confidence to go after him, until she gets a lucky break - a broken limb that allows her to disguise her childhood infirmity by posing as the victim of a skiing mishap. But when she throws caution to the wind and starts an intense affair, she learns that she isn't the only one with something to hide. —Anonymous