For Nina Askew, turning forty means freedom – from the ex-husband whose career always came first, from their stuffy suburban home. Freedom to have her own apartment in the city, freedom to focus on what she wants for a change. And what she wants is something her ex always vetoed – a puppy. A bouncy puppy to cheer her up. Instead she gets…Fred. Overweight, smelly and obviously suffering from some kind of doggy depression, Fred is light-years from perky. But for all his faults, he does manage to put Nina face-to-face with Alex Moore, her gorgeous, younger downstairs neighbor. Alex looks great on paper – a sexy, seemingly sane, surprisingly single E.R. doctor who shares Fred’s abiding love for Oreos – but a ten-year difference in age, despite his devastating smile, is too wide a gap for Nina to handle.
