One Kiss Away from Love

Ari is a 30-something fashion-conscious, ambitious advertising copywriter living in Reykjavik in the year of 2007, at the height of the financial bubble. Every weekend someone throws “the party of the century”, and at the agency every week starts with a great new project that is going to “take us all the way”. Reykjavik is full of millionaires with a yacht in Monaco.

We meet our hero at one of those big wild garden parties. The owner of Bigger Group, charismatic nutball “Biggi Bigger”, is throwing his biggest party ever. This time the theme is Moroccan!

Ari is still single and his mother, Asa, who is always dating the latest rich widower, is worried about him and wants a daughter in law. She sets him up with a psychic who predicts that Ari will find true love and he will know that love by the magic of their first kiss. The only problem is, the psychic gives him only one kiss to use. If Ari kisses the wrong woman next, he’ll miss out on love forever. (excerpt)