Panicked Emma Corrigan believes she is about to die in a plane wreck! She turns to the handsome and reassuring man seated next to her and babbles out her secrets, desires and idiosyncrasies. Luckily she survives the crash, but she won't survive the humiliation that follows. . . . She shows up for work the next day only to be introduced to that man sitting next to her on the plane, Jack. He's the CEO of the U.S.-based Panther Cola she's been marketing!

As she tries to recover and maintain her professional stature with her new boss, Emma finds herself in a tangled web of her own weaving as she tries to get to know more about Jack. At the same time, Jack is trying to get to know Emma, but his thoughts are more business-minded than romance-minded. Emma, to him, is a fine young marketing, working woman in her twenties.

Horror strikes when Jack betrays Emma and reveals her secrets! He goes on an on about her Barbie bedspread and of her borrowing her roommate's shoes, on the television show, Business Inspirations, using those elements of Emma's character as a business tactic. How embarrassing!

Will Emma and Jack's relationship remain at the business level? Develop into something more personal? Or will his divulging of her secrets drive Emma far, far away?

The early chapters, in which Emma's flight from Glasgow begins to take a nosedive, literally, and she begins her ill-considered true confessions, are really engaging and interesting, not to mention realistic; how many people find themselves blurting out personal information at a time of dire shock. And the comedic scenes that unfold because Emma's seatmate winds up being her boss is great. Kinsella truly is the Chick-lit queen.