A quirky and quickwitted girl moves to Manhattan and holds on for dear life.Emily Hinton needs out. She comes from a small town in California where thechurch ha... » 

A quirky and quickwitted girl moves to Manhattan and holds on for dear life.Emily Hinton needs out. She comes from a small town in California where thechurch handbell choir concert passes for a decent way to spend a Saturday andshes known all the boys since kindergarten. She dreams of sophisticatedpeople love and Louis Vuitton. When she lands a job at the worldfamouspublishing house Morrow Sons in New York she knows that she is finally onher way. She packs her bags says goodbye and sets out for Manhattan whereshe will fit in even if it kills her.In spite of her naivete she quickly becomes friends with the girls at work andbegins to learn a thing or two about how things are done in Manhattan. She soonattracts the attention of the handsome Bennett and is swept into a whirlwindromance but an overnight visit to his parents home at Thanksgiving and hisseemingly idle flirtations with one of her colleagues give her second thoughtsabout what Bennett really wants. Her uncertainty about her feelings escalateswhen one of the hometown boys she left behind reappears in her life. Emilysdays at the office are also becoming complicated an ambitious editor isbreaking all the rules to publish a controversial book that demeans everythingshe believes in. Will she stand up for what she knows is right and risk losingit all?Balancing her passion for the glamour of New York City with her determinationto live by her morals turns out to be much more difficult than Emily everimagined. Her roundabout quest for happiness will endear her to anyone who hasever dreamed of making it big and faced more than a few pitfalls along theway. «