Single mom Lucie has gone a REALLY long time without dipping a toe in the dating pool and, for the most part, isn't looking to find romance. When her precocious daughter calls a radio romance hotline to get dating advice from host Aiden, Lucie is a bit shocked at first, but ultimately willing to use her new notoriety to get back into dating through a radio-sponsored experiment. Of course, as she starts going on dates and reporting on them on Aiden's show, Lucie finds that she really enjoys spending time with grumpy Aiden, who isn't so sure that he believes in love, even if that's what he constantly discusses over the airwaves. Now it's just a matter of figuring out whether The One is out there listening or sitting in the studio beside Lucie.
For a fairly contrived plot, this was a lovely story, full of realistically nosy relatives and coworkers, eye-roll-worthy bad dates, and a refreshingly unstereotypical take on a woman in a stereotypically male workplace (Lucie is a car mechanic, and instead of having a scene with bro-y dudes make a mockery of her job, she simply refers to them abstractly while explaining her mental strength in another situation — we don't need to give guys like this any more ink than that). While the mother-daughter relationship seems a bit odd at times, especially given how young the daughter is, it's still a winner of a romance novel.
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