Tangled Tidings

<p>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.</p><p>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 that girl who thinks the mailman is in the CIA. 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.</p><p>The only hitch? Steve insists it is all a string of random coincidences.</p><p>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.</p>