Rowell, Rainbow

Feeling cast off when her twin sister outgrows their shared love for a favorite fictional character, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words, and worrying about her fragile father.

Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder, coworkers at "The Courier," spend all day sending each other e-mail messages, sharing everything from office gossip to personal anxieties, and unknowingly entertaining Lincoln O'Neill, the newspaper's Internet security officer whose job it is to monitor other people's e-mail, and who does not realize until it is too late that he has fallen in love with Beth without ever having met her.

Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office email. But the women still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. When Lincoln applied to be an Internet security officer, he never imagined he'd be sifting through other people's inboxes like a peeping Tom. But he can't quite bear to crack down on Beth and Jennifer.

Feeling cast off when her best friend outgrows their shared love for a favorite celebrity, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words and worrying about her fragile father.

"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--Provided by publisher.