Description
The protagonist, Marlowe Riddle, has been single for a year and a half in New York City. She meets a man, Joseph Kain, who seems interested in her, but he is mistaken for a call girl. Marlowe is a psychologist, not a Manhattan's answer to the Mayflower Madam, and she has a research project on the "Behavioral Effects of Disguising Identity." She is not sure who is seducing whom, but it is becoming increasingly unclear.
After going for more than a year without a date -- a record in New York City -- Marlowe Riddle has finally met a broodingly sexy, sharply intelligent man who is clearly interested in making more than polite conversation. The only problem: Joseph Kain is an NYPD detective clearly under the mistaken impression that Marlowe is a call girl. But while Marlowe does take money for spending time with strangers in her expensive Upper West Side apartment, she's a psychologist -- not Manhattan's answer to the Mayflower Madam! A fact she has no intention of telling Joe ... at least not until she finishes her research project on the "Behavioral Effects of Disguising Identity." But Marlowe's not the only one trying to secretively gain information ... and it's becoming increasingly unclear who is seducing whom. Because sometimes the only way to learn what a man really wants ... is to get him on the couch.