Readers love Sally Carmichael's young adult novels about a human girl who falls in love with a merman. No one knows that Sally Carmichael is really Simon Hayes, a bitter, serious novelist, and Simon would like to keep it that way.

Four red plaid travelling cases--one of each belonging to a befuddled Iowa musicologist, a strange but bright young woman, a rich matron and a suspicious fellow--are mixed up at a San Francisco hotel, with hilarious results.

Lee and Carter's much needed vacation in Hong Kong is cut short when a bomb explodes at the American Embassy.

Pen pals since the age of 15, Gina and Seth have created a friendship based solely on letters and snapshots they have sent to one another, although the pictures are of their better looking best friends. Now as adults, they finally get a chance to meet. Afraid to face the truth, each sends their best friend to pose as them for the first meeting. Much to their horror, the best friends fall in love, but soon the truth is revealed and all learn important...

C.D. Bales, a fireman with an astonishingly long nose, harbors a secret love for Roxanne, a beautiful astronomy student who is attracted to another man.

Abby, a savvy, witty veterinarian who hosts her own radio talk show, is anything but confident when it comes to love. A petite brunette, she describes herself as tall and blonde when Brian, a caller who is smitten with her radio persona, asks her on a date. She then talks her tall, blonde neighbor Noelle into assuming her identity, setting off an escalating series of hilarious and romantic crises.

A young window dresser's problems begin when he kisses a statue of Venus, which comes to life. This Venus turns out to be the genuine article on an earthly assignment. Her presence causes everyone around her to fall in love, except for the window dresser, who is terrified of her advances toward him. The young man suddenly becomes the object of a furious employer and a jealous fiancée.

Philo Beddoe, a regular easy-going, beer-drinking truck driver and the toughest barroom brawler west of the Rockies, lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. When he finally falls in love, it's with a flighty singer who leads him on a crazy chase across the Southwest.

Jonathan Moore is a shy college sophomore who scores big at Gotcha, his school's mock assassination game. While traveling in Europe, he meets the woman of his dreams, who turns out to be an international spy.

1979 version: Dentist Sheldon Kornpett is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very suspicious character, Vince Ricardo. Nonetheless, Vince calls on Sheldon and convinces him to go with him on a series of adventures, claiming all the while that he is a CIA agent, and that what he is doing is in national interest. 2003 version: When two fathers of an engaged couple meet for the first time, they know they are very...