If you’ve been searching online for “Love Letters of Great Men,” the book referenced in the Sex and the City movie, you’re wasting your time. The movie has inspired a huge demand for this tome of romantic words, but here’s the rub: it doesn’t exist.

In the movie, Sarah Jessica Parker-as-Carrie Bradshaw reads the book to Chris Noth’s Mr. Big. Later in the flick, the great love letters play a central role. But don’t look for the book, because you won’t find it. The closest thing to the fictional volume is “Love Letters of Great Men and Women: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day,” originally published in 1920 and recently re-issued.

The fictional book has created enough demand for “Love Letters” that the real book is shooting right up the Amazon most-wanted list. The letters mentioned by Carrie in the bedroom reading scene do actually exist, by the way, so all is not lost.