On the Couch

After going for more than a year without a date - a record in New York City - Marlowe Riddle has finally met a broodingly sexy, sharply intelligent man who is clearly interested in making more than polite conversation. The only problem: Joseph Kain is an NYPD detective clearly under the mistaken impression that Marlowe is a call girl.

But while Marlowe does take money for spending time with strangers in her expensive Upper West Side apartment, she's a psychologist - not Manhattan's answer to the Mayflower Madam! A fact she has no intention of telling Joe . . . at least not until she finishes her research project on the "Behavioral Effects of Disguising Identity."

But Marlowe's not the only one trying to secretively gain information . . . and it's becoming increasingly unclear who is seducing whom. Because sometimes the only way to learn what a man really wants . . . is to get him on the couch.