Life Line

Josh Wilcox is a thirty-something single dad looking for love (or at least some half-decent sex) in his post-divorce world. He’s dragging along some hefty baggage (a murdered child will have that effect), but on the scales of life he’s probably tipping more toward the positive side than the negative.

He discovers that dating has changed a lot since the last time he was single, and that finding a good woman, even with the questionable help of online dating, is a serious pain in the ass.

After a handful of dates that could give the Apocalypse a run for its money, he meets Pam. She’s cute, funny, enjoys sex (always a plus), and is (thank God) mentally stable. She has some baggage of her own, but at least manages to brush her hair. He’s not thrilled about how far away she lives, but then life’s full of little compromises.

Finally, it seems his luck is changing.

Then he learns the hard way that one of the women he dated is an honest-to-God sociopath who’s neither forgotten nor forgiven him.

Damn. Something always comes along to screw up a good thing.