Jake Kelly was a "hit man," a guy skilled in the seduction of beautiful women. He used his skills to bed as many women as possible, moving on as soon as he had what he wanted and assuming the women he slept with felt the same way. He was wrong.

One of Kelly's tried and true opening lines was claiming he needed to interview beautiful women for an upcoming book; ironically, it was this line of seduction that changed his life. He learned that, while hit men look for conquests, their targets long for deeper, more meaningful relationships. Equally interesting, he discovered women had little...