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The Solo Dating Experiment

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Votes 518
Parts 39
Time 7h 18m

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Clarissa Lincoln is a martini glass half full type. Heck, even when she slurps the last bits of icy vodka from the glass, she'll tell you it's plumb full!

Until a disaster of a night on New Year's Eve sends the daydreaming, serial dater spiraling as her hopes of happily ever after seem to be circling the drain! The distraught, Rissa is left hopeless and bleak as she vents to a friend at a coffee shop on New Year's Day.

Self-help writer and well-known handsome bachelor, Conner Fields, who wrote THE dating guide a few years back, overhears Rissa's tirade when he is brainstorming for his next book. The grumpy writer is about to storm off, annoyed at this woman's loud intrusion, when suddenly he has an idea.

An experiment, actually. A dating one, only instead of dating men, Rissa has to remain single for one year and get to know herself by going on special solo dates. After these dates, she will need to meet with Conner to fill him in for the book. It's a weird offer, but women everywhere swear that Conner's first book changed their lives, and he's offering to pay her well if she takes on the challenge seriously.

The broke city girl could sure use a few extra bucks, and she's been failing miserably in her love life so far. It's an offer she can't refuse, and so a deal is made and a dating experiment that's sure to go wrong begins.

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