What in the name of flowers and candy is going on?!?! People are falling in love and getting married in unheard-of numbers after meeting on the new internet dating site, Love.com. Marsha Underwood, Director of Marketing believes something fishy is going on; the crazy success can’t be just good marketing. Marsha suspects her boss, Paul Latimer, may have something to do with it. She knows Paul will do anything to earn the respect of his own powerful, rich but remote father. And Paul flunked ethics in business school.
The trouble is, Paul is in love with Marsha, but for good reason she doesn’t consider Paul to be marriage material. When Marsha, her father and best friend begin to investigate the goings-on behind the pretty web pages, her allies are destroyed in mysterious fashion. Afraid for her own life from the man who claims to love her, Marsha nonetheless chooses to pursue the truth about the company that has made her rich. But Love.com is now a worldwide phenomenon, and won’t give up its secrets easily. All her courage and smarts may not be enough to unravel the Love.com mystery and save her own life. And while she’s at it, she wouldn’t mind finding the love she was created for.
Love.com is smart, original, fun and funny. It’s for everyone who has been in love, or wants to be, or just enjoys a suspenseful whodunit.
Love.com starts off in Year 3 of the story, which is when the main character, Marsha, begins to suspect that something strange is going on. It then jumps between Year 1 and the start of the company, Year 2 with several couples meeting their soulmates and Love.com expanding to dominate the market, and Year 3 again with more suspicious discoveries. Although this sounds confusing, it serves to explain various things that happen in the course of the story, and why what starts as an innocent online dating agency turns into something more threatening.
Paul has never had the chance to get the respect of his father, George. By setting up the dating agency, he hopes to earn George’s respect and Marsha’s love. But things get more complicated than simply setting up dates for people and the company grows rapidly. It’s not until Marsha and her dad, John, get suspicious and start poking around, that things really start happening.
Love.com is definitely not a soppy love story. It is a fast-moving tale with murder and intrigue at it’s heart. I was surprised at the ending – I never would have thought of that!
