Jane Graves, Hot Wheels and High Heels

Hot Wheels and High Heels

Jane Graves

Warner, Jul 2007, $6.99

ISBN: 9780446617864

Following a vacation in Cancun with her best friend, Darcy McDaniel comes home to Plano, Texas to learn her home and her possessions have been sold; her bank are accounts read negative; her charge cards are maxed to the ceiling; and her husband Warren has disappeared. Besides her esteem flushed down the toilet she learns from the family living in what was their home that Warren reported her dead. When former cop John Stark arrives to repossess her last asset her car, she realizes she needs employment but has no marketable skills.

She obtains a job as file clerk at John's repo business although he believes she will fail as she was obviously a pampered trophy wife. Darcy knows what her new boss' smug expression means so she is determined to prove she can perform this job in an exemplary manner and sets a goal to eventually become a repo woman. Of course intent and performance do not always meet, but love between two opposites make the office quite a home.

This fast-paced tale starts with quite a rush for the lead female (and the audience) when she finds out Warren said she died in a Mexican car accident and from that sixth sense start never slows down until the final kiss as she picks love not money. Fans will enjoy the antics of the high heeled Darcy as she sasses her way into the heart of stark loner John who though he knows she is not his style loves her spunk; so will readers.

Harriet Klausner