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Alessi Moore looks for halos everywhere. Her mother taught her from the time she was small, that halos mean angels are watching over her and something good is going to happen. So when Alessi notices halos encircling the lampposts during a snow storm, she knows she is exactly where she needs to be.
Alessi’s parents died young. Her reluctant guardians did their duty but on Alessi’s eighteenth birthday they gave her a car and told her to get lost. The car is her only earthly belonging, and Alessi babies it. When she notices she needs gas soon after seeing the halos, she turns off the highway at a little town called Charity.
But while paying for the gas, someone steals Alessi’s car, leaving her with nothing except the clothes on her back. Even her money is gone. With no place to go, no motel in town, and a police chief unwilling to help, Alessi appeals to the goodwill of strangers. But few in the small town believe her story. And when it becomes obvious that whoever stole Alessi’s car is making her a target of a potentially violent attack, will anyone step forward to help her before it’s too late?
I wanted to read HALOS since I saw it in a catalog, but I was hesitant, since Ms. Heitzmann’s novels are hit and miss with me. When the opportunity was offered to review this book, I jumped at it. I instantly fell in love with Alessi, her quirky yet loveable ways, and hoped somehow things would start looking up for her. The secondary characters are also engaging, and will pull the reader right into the story from the first page.
HALOS is an excellent, engaging read. I recommend it, but am still undecided
whether it’s a book for the keeper shelf, though I’m not sure why. HALOS
is a strong spiritual take-away, touching the reader where it hurts.
Reviewed by Laura V. Hilton
for The Road to Romance
April 22, 2004
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