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"Enjoyable chick-lit"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 15, 2003

A legal associate in the DC area, Ellie Winters does all the right things especially if it enables her to avoid a confrontation. Now turning thirty, Ellie adheres by the rules, a classic example of integrity, even if no one but she is aware of her actions. However, Read more...

"Witty and hilarious chick-lit - not to be missed!"
Reviewed by Shayne Sawyer
Courtesy Old Book Barn Gazette
Posted September 23, 2003

Ellie Winters, the ultimate over-achiever and dependable good girl with boring boyfriends and an equally boring job, despairs she'll ever find the one true love of her life, even though Washington, DC, is full of eligible men. Her biological clock is booming like Big Ben with her 30th birthday just Read more...

Summary

"The one thing you should know about me is this: I'm the consummate Good Girl. . ." Ellie Winters is dependable and loyal and has a near-phobic aversion to conflict. But as her thirtieth birthday looms ever closer, she starts to feel like she's lost the instruction manual to her life. She has just broken up with her boring boyfriend, despises her job, and is the last of her high school friends to remain single. Worse, her dysfunctional family is driving her nuts, and she's somehow become enslaved to her demanding pet pug Sally, who she suspects is the reincarnation of Pol Pot. One night, after a botched attempt to color her hair at home, Ellie rushes to the drugstore for emergency bleach, Sally in tow. Sally is accosted by a smitten canine admirer . . . but it's the dog's owner who captures Ellie's attention. Television news anchor Ted Langston is witty, intriguing, and sexy. The only catch? He's twice her age-- and the only man on the planet who isn't interested in dating a younger woman. And no one, from Ellie's best friends to Ted's ex-wife, wants to see them get together.