Love's Complicated

Lea Townshend avoids conflict at all cost in wanting everyone to be happy, not realizing that in being a doormat she isn't happy herself. She will often lie rather that tell the truth to avoid that conflict. Having dated her college professor boyfriend Edward Krause now for two years, she will always defer to his wishes, despite often wanting something totally different than what his staid and predictable self wants. An author whose successful first book was based on herself and her senator father Douglas Townshend who has always had to tread a fine line between the political left and political right, she is told by her publisher JR Thompson that the problem with her second book, for which she's submitted her first complete manuscript, is that the lead character, while interesting, has no conflict in her life. Sensing something isn't quite right in their relationship, Edward signs Lea up for a conflict management class. Among the class of six is radio shock jock Cinco Dublin, court-ordered to take the class, he who panned Lea's first book as saccharin, and who, in the very nature of his business, is the antithesis of Lea in being purposefully provocative. While Lea doesn't fall far off her father's tree, Cinco also doesn't fall far off his father's tree, he a successful and respected journalist, their relationship characterized by fights for the sake of fights. Although resistant at first, Lea may find that the class will truly show her who she truly wants to be in relation to her father, to Edward, to JR, and most importantly to Cinco.