He Was Her Man — Sarah Shankman

Sam Adams hugged the rain-slick two-lane and sang the blues all five hundred miles from New Orleans to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where Olive Adair--sole proprietor of the Gas 'N Grub--was the first person all day to lift her spirits. Sam's sexy boyfriend, Harry, had just taken up with someone appallingly young and impossibly skinny. Sam was roaring into Hot Springs to cry on the shoulder of her best friend, Kitty--on hand for their lottery-winning-friend Jinx Watson's big blowout engagement party.

When the less-than-adorable groom is kidnapped for a million-dollar ransom, and Olive Adair simply disappears, Sam sallies out to investigate--if only to seek Olive, and grist for American Weird, the book she's writing. Jinx is hiding behind movie-star sunglasses at McClard's Barbecue, a beautiful young grifter is lurking around the Palace Hotel, and Hot Springs natives can't stop gabbing about a mysterious personage called You Know Who. Sam's starting to think that "weird" is like dysfunctional families--it's really just the norm. Only after Sam is nabbed from her car and trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey does she start to glimpse the whole dangerous picture....