Ninety year old male, never been kissed, looking for love - that is Eddie Winston. He has lived a full life and has fallen in love (with a married woman) but that's as far as it's gone. This romantic at heart retired college professor now works in a charity shop where he "saves" items he thinks the donor might come back for some day. It's at the charity shop that he meets a donor, Bella, a young woman whose boyfriend has died. Inside the box is a pair of lovingly decorated shoes that Eddie puts on his "Eddie shelf" thinking Bella will return.

An unlikely friendship develops between Eddie and Bella. When he reveals that he has never been kissed, Bella creates an online dating profile for Eddie which he enthusiastically embraces. The growing friendship between these two is the best part of the book! They are truly friends: sharing their joys and sorrows, frequent lunches in the park, going on excursions.