When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone.

Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up.

I'd really like to know why the hell a person would make up a thing like that.

Written with the snap, glitter and wit of The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing, God-Shaped Hole is a memorable, poignant love story that will leave you weeping with laughter. It is told in the

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A shy Louisiana librarian, Mary Warner fears she'll always be alone -- so she answers a personals ad from a rancher in Montana," a guardian of three orphaned children who agrees to marry the mysterious Southern woman sight unseen.

There something funny about Jodie and Mark's grandparents' farm, but nobody's laughing, especially when twelve strange new scarecrows scare more than just the crows. Matt Amsterdam wished his family were different, until he wakes up from a nap in the attic to find things are suddenly very different. Ricky Beamer hopes for revenge when he puts a mean girl's phone number in a personal ad. When he starts getting scary midnight calls, he is the one getting...

In "Wanted: Perfect Partner," Meg's teenage daughter places a personal ad on her behalf, and in "Fully Ignited," Scott's plans to find a wife are completely derailed when the new guy at his firehouse turns out to be a woman.

Anticipating her first date in more than a decade, divorced preschool teacher Sarah Hurlihy wonders about the man whose personal ad she responded to and is stunned when he is the last person she expected.

"A talk show producer faces her own guilt when she discovers that her best friend was murdered after answering an online personal ad. Against the wishes of detective D'Salva, she begins a treacherous dating game, drawing the killer's sights to her."--Container.

"Head to Hope Falls, Colorado, where three enterprising young women put an ad in the paper for healthy, hardworking husbands-for-hire, never dreaming the suitors would respond so promptly--and in person! Out of the logjam of eligible bachelors, which one will Evelyn, Lacey, and Naomi choose?"--Amazon.com, viewed November 25, 2013.

A serial killer terrorizes London by luring women into meeting with him through the personal ads in the newspaper and taunting the police with gruesome poems.

"This anthology of comics inspired by real-life missed connection ads posted on Craigslist and in local papers around the country will tug at your heartstrings and make you think. Lonely hearts, romantics, and even cynics pore over missed connection ads in search of love, to gawk and giggle, or out of curiosity. These posted stranger sightings and chance encounters lay bare the truths and oddities of real-life loneliness and attractions and bring...