Lone Star Santa

When Kristen Zaleski is offered an exotic dancing job, she relizes her acting career is not only over, it's never even started. With barely enough money for a bus ticket, she returns home to Sugar Land, Texas. Mitch Donner is home, too. He's been locked out of his financial services firm, his home and accounts by the FBI. As he waits for them to realize their mistake, he returns to Sugar Land, too. Kristen takes a job working at her dad's PI business where she discovers a talent for sleuthing. Mitch fills the time by installing Christmas lights. When he asks for a date, it's only natural she employ her newly minted investigative talents to check him out. What she discovers sets the stage for a marvelous romp where Kristin will use all her acting and investigative talents to help Mitch get his life back. And, as they delve deeer into the mystery and expose the culprit, Mitch leans that of all the investments he's made, the one he's making in Kristen is the most important. This is an absolutely marvelous book. Kristen is funny, quirky and original, the perfect counterfoil to Mitch's straight-man, accountant persona. Herather MacAllister's touch is so light, so unfailing amusing that you find yourself delightedly zipping through the book only to remember and reflect on its more serious aspects later. Fleury Sommers Houston, Texas