Marrying Up

by Jackie Rose

Published 26 July 2005

After writing her own obituary as an experiment, Holly Hastings realises that her life isn't exactly blazing a trail. The twenty–eight–year–old is broke, bored at work and perpetually single. Then, inspired by an old Marilyn Monroe movie, she hatches a plot to change it all: Marry a millionaire – and write about how to do it!

Taking leave from her job–if not her senses–Holly decides to better her chances of mingling with the moneyed by getting the heck out of Dodge (aka, Buffalo, New York) and heading to millionaire–rich towns East and West. Her honesty and common decency make it hard to fully embrace the shallow life, but Holly managesfinally landing herself an eligible millionaire in San Francisco–her all–expenses–paid trip to Easy Street.

Too bad about that inconvenient crush she's developed on her neighbour. Will Holly stick to her plan for marrying up or will she choose marrying right?