By Katie Gates and Tim Knight

As a parody of the self-help industry, the Stuck On You gift book series begins with Do-It-Yourself Dating: Stuck On You Patches for the Single Gal. Tired of dating? Why not take matters into your own hands?

As many 30-something women know, dating is tough. Even allowing for falling standards, finding Mr. Right is difficult, maybe impossible. This book brightens the day with its no-fail solution: The four-step relationship patch! With humorous illustrations and big attitude, this book will appeal to many women who feel they’ve seen it all, but still have a sense of humor about it.

Marked for Death by Brian Karem (Avon Books, Mass Market Paperback)

To everyone who knew him, respected California attorney and popular horse enthusiast Larry McNabney was insanely in love with his young wife Elisa—and she returned his affection in kind. For six blissful years, they made the rounds of the country club and horse racing circuit, arm-in-arm.

But the cheerful, devoted spouse was not what she appeared. A drug-addled grafter, she had fled to Florida, leaving a trail of lies and petty crimes in her wake. A dangerous thrill-seeker, her exhilarating smile masked a psyche steeped in pure rage—even as she seduced her ‘straight-arrow’ husband with a taste of the wild life.

But her crowning evil was still to come, a heinous plan devised with her partner in crime, Sarah, her female lover and equal in ruthlessness: the coldly orchestrated death of Larry McNabney.