Dead Sexy

Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.

This is what Shelaine Green thinks when she meets Kit Kinkade. Raised by a single mum, Shelly is convinced that if vibrators could 'kill spiders in the bathtub, light the barbie, kiss our upper eyelids and tell us we don't look fat in stretch lycra', then women wouldn't need men at all.

Okay, Kit's broken nose may give him the look of a streetwise Greek God - the way Hercules would look if he played in a heavy metal band - but he also believes a woman is little more than a life support system to an ovary.

They meet the day they are married.

A reality TV show runs a 'Desperate and Dateless' competition. A computer has matched Kit and Shelly, predicting them to be the perfect pair...with huge financial rewards if they can survive their honeymoon on a paradise island.

Can Shelly and Kit fall in love at second sight? Or is a truce in the sex war as likely as seeing Bin Laden on a pub crawl? And why is Kit so mysterious? The Sphinx is less of a riddle than this man. What exactly is he hiding? And, if Kit really is flying under Shelly's romantic radar, then why does she have a libido the size of the Indian Ocean?

Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener...