Just in time for the new millennium, things are falling into place. Online advice columnist Lola Somerville lands the plummest of jobs at Ovum Inc., the hip new TV and web network promising smart programming for women. As Ovum's in-house relationships expert, Lola is now up against the pop-psych big dogs--the authors of the mega-selling "The Canon: Your Only Hope For a Husband" and of the pharma-memoir "Xanax Planet," not to mention E. Ron Wilson, kabillionaire despot of the "Men Are Pigs, Women are Nuts" empire. She's also rubbing elbows with the most powerful person in the universe: the...

Just in time for the new millennium, things are falling into place. Online advice columnist Lola Somerville lands the plummest of jobs at Ovum Inc., the hip new TV and web network promising smart programming for women. As Ovum's in-house relationships expert, Lola is now up against the pop-psych big dogs--the authors of the mega-selling "The Canon: Your Only Hope For a Husband" and of the pharma-memoir "Xanax Planet," not to mention E. Ron Wilson, kabillionaire despot of the "Men Are Pigs, Women are Nuts" empire. She's also rubbing elbows with the most powerful person in the universe: the...