Gabrielle

(M or F POV) Gabby has never struggled to find boyfriends. Unfortunately, her taste in men is catastrophic. Her preferred combination of handsome, exciting, confident and socially dominant has produced an impressive collection of cheaters, narcissists, liars, controlling assholes and men possessing several of those qualities simultaneously. Gabby's conclusion is that she “attracts bastards.” Her friends have begun to suspect the bastards aren't the ones doing the selecting. After her latest disastrous breakup, a friend finally suggested she stop dating her usual type and “give the nerd a chance”: someone awkward, unfashionable and so far outside Gabby's normal standards that she would ordinarily dismiss him without a second thought. Gabby laughed at the idea. Then someone suggested she probably couldn't make it work. Now she has to.