The Idea of Love Author:Megan Louis It began with the plan.The big, ten-year plan. And then it went terribly, utterly, horribly wrong. When Marnie graduated from Northwestern University with a comp lit degree in her back pocket, she anticipated it would only be a matter of days before she would be tucked into a corner office with a perky secretary perched outside to answer her ... more »phones and fetch her coffee; a matter of months before she had a two-carat Tiffany engagement ring on her finger; and a year or two before she was pushing a stroller through her Gold Coast neighborhood and pressing the Penthouse button on her private elevator. What she hadn't expected was to be wasting away her stellar education in a call center, to be searching for a husband through internet dating sites, or to be totally disillusioned with life by the ripe age of twenty-four. And where would that leave her by twenty-eight, much less thirty? Will Marnie finally succeed in securing her ideal life, or will life's obstacles and setbacks cause her to readjust her expectations (and her idea of love)?« less