It's 1999 in a Nebraskan newspaper office and for staff, the internet and email is still a novelty. Management is panicking: 'giving employees Internet access was like giving them the option to work if they feel like it, look at porn if they don't'. Enter Lincoln, a shy, lonely IT guy, with the thankless task of monitoring employees' emails on the night shift. By day, two young women, Beth and Jennifer, spend their hours emailing each other, discussing in hilarious detail every aspect of their lives, from boyfriend troubles, to family dramas, to reminiscing about their college days. And by night, Lincoln spends his hours reading every exchange. At first their emails offer a welcome diversion, but as Lincoln unwittingly becomes drawn into their lives, the more he reads, the more he finds himself falling for one of them. A funny, sweet and irresistible romantic comedy, FLAGGED is a novel about friendship, the peculiar patterns of office life and the perils of love.