Word on the Street

A Reality Bites Homage

College professor Laine Foster knows two things: her secret intuitive word hunch reliably navigates her life (this week’s was capricious) and that she hates reality dating show host Tyler Luce. She’d even penned the popular indictment of him that jump started a cultural reckoning akin to Me Too, 2.0. So when her agent persuaded her to co-host a podcast with the very person she disdained, Laine prepares for battle. But when Tyler Luce arrives at their first session, he’s not vapid but witty and thoughtful, so much so that he snaps out her word, capricious, in their first heated exchange. She’s stunned. No one had ever! Could there more to Tyler Luce than meets the eye?

Tyler Luce had fought to get to the top until one misstep on set was amplified far and wide--by that woman's book. Now he needs to right himself, get his audience back, and if this podcast did that, then he was on board. All he had to do was keep his lifelong stutter concealed as he always had by avoiding trigger words with his mental thesaurus. That, and never doing any live episodes. And then especially not getting rattled in front of this know-it-all academic. Friends and family are warning him, but how hard could this be?

From sauna sessions to sushi dinners, romance writing to coffee errands, their unfolding passion challenges Laine and Tyler to come to terms with their deepest secrets and find their true path in life and their possible way forward. Together.