After three rejected pilot scripts, my agent's note hit like a gut punch: “The network wants a sure thing. No original ideas. So give them a retelling. How about Sex and the City, but in 2025?” Three massive hurdles, however, stand in my way:
 1. I’m thirty-two and a virgin.
 2. I don’t date and have no interest in relationships.
 3. (See hurdle one.) His solution: “You have friends, don’t you?”
I do. - Penelope Rye, billion-dollar CEO, married to the man she pulled herself from the hellish depths of addiction for. But now he wants a baby—and it risks erasing the woman she has become. - Robyn McGrath, powerhouse lawyer, sworn to celibacy after a string of mediocre assholes. Until her ex—the one who twisted her like a pretzel and made her eyes roll into the back of her head reappears, fresh out of prison. - Cameron Bailey, multimillion-dollar fashion mogul, and nine-year girlfriend to an electrician who’s still in no rush whatsoever to propose. - Eleanor Wang, viral content creator, new mom to a three-month-old, and wife to an unemployed animator who won’t clean, work, or wear a shirt. I'd planned to stay sidelined, mining their lives for research, but an invite to an exclusive, industry party one late summer night in New York, leads me straight to the “love of my life”—a foreign actor I've been secretly obsessed with for nearly a decade. Suddenly, I’ve got more than enough material... and temptation to work with. So do I keep making excuses, or do I strip down and dive into 2025’s dating swamp? The Hairy Problem is a serialized romp through the chaos of love, sex, and relationships in 2025—and why modern romance needs a full-body wax. It is perfect for fans of Sex and the City and each novella can be read as a standalone.