An author writing a book on jealousy discovers his wife is an expert on the subject.

John Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with them. He leaves college to go to New York to have his manuscript on jealousy published. John and his wife Julie go to Elliott Morgan Publishing to discuss his book. Being that it is highly technical and boring, Nellie Woods wants to focus on the small part about couples that she thinks will sell. But it soon becomes apparent that everyone is more intrigued by Julie than the book. Elliott tries to make advances on Julie while Nellie is more interested in John than his book. Julie, however, is worried about John, while John, who wrote the book on jealousy, seems oblivious to it and thinks that he knows everything about jealousy.—Tony Fontana <[email protected]>

Quitting his job as Psychology professor at Digby College in a dispute over academic standards, John Hathaway moves to New York City with his beautiful wife, Julie Hathaway, in hopes of getting his book on the wasted emotion of jealousy published, he believing it could change the face of modern marriage. John lives by what he espouses in never being jealous in trusting Julie, even in the high frequency of other men showing her attention. Julie, in return, does wish that John would sometimes get jealous as a sign that he actually does love her, she needing such reassurance in thinking he the smart one in the relationship. The manuscript does come to the attention of Nellie Woods, the assistant to publisher Elliott Morgan and the brains of the Elliott Morgan Publishing House. Morgan has largely solely become the company figurehead in he spending his time in the pursuit of women in what he considers his mid-life neuroses. In reality, he loves Nellie and Nellie loves him, but she doesn't want to be the person to who he returns every time he gets tired of the latest other woman. Wanting to dumb it down to the masses, Nellie spends her time with John to edit the manuscript for publication, leaving Elliott free to pursue the latest woman to catch his eyes: Julie. The question then becomes within this romantic square of sorts whether the green-eyed monster of jealousy will rear its head regardless of what is in their hearts or heads.—Huggo