Tangled Tidings

For Ali Harper, the holiday season usually meant long shifts at the fire station, flaming Christmas trees (because apparently people still don't water them), and—if all went according to plan—a long-awaited proposal from her boyfriend of four years, Steve Lawson. What she didn't pencil into her planner? A fiery redhead with a hidden agenda, a brooding, mysterious man in a leather jacket who may or may not be working for the Mafia, and enough restaurant drama to warrant its own reality show.Ali had been crafting wild stories about people since she was a kid—stories that sometimes got her labeled as a gossip, a snoop, or "e;that girl who thinks the mailman is in the CIA."e; But this time, it isn't her imagination running wild—someone really is sabotaging Steve's restaurant, and Ali is determined to sniff out the culprit.The only hitch? Steve insists it is all a string of random coincidences.But Ali knows better, and she isn't about to sit around while her boyfriend's dreams—and, hopefully, her future engagement ring—go up in smoke.