No one is better than Kate Bennett at playing by the rules-because no one has quite her knack for running into bad luck. Orphaned while in college, Kate handled her loss by graduating with honors and acquiring a secure job and a dependable boyfriend. But now, with her thirtieth birthday around the corner, Kate decides it's time to shake things up. She quits her job, breaks up with her long-term boyfriend, and U-Hauls it across the country for her first year at Tulane Law School. Too bad nothing in the Big Easy is quite so easy. . . .
Before she knows it, Kate finds her life turned upside down by a notoriously sadistic professor, a larger-than-life new boss-and two interested men who are sure that she's The One. . . . But can either of the men in her life really know Kate, when she's just getting to know herself? In a year of self-discovery, the most important lesson Kate may learn is that to change your luck, sometimes you have to change your mind-including what you thought was your dream.