Tin Angel
by Raine English
For the first time in Alice Hart's life, she likes the way she looks. The ugly duckling has become a swan. But how could this be? She's ninety years old, far from young and beautiful...Alice Hart is a lonely old woman who believes true love happens only once in a lifetime. When the angel Christmas tree topper given to her by the man she lost sixty years ago comes to life, Alice's wish to be young again is granted, but she's given only ten days to find true love or die unfulfilled. So she concocts a story that she's Alice's long lost niece, hoping to attract the attention of her handsome tenant.Disillusioned by his experiences with high-maintenance women, Jack Billings yearns to find an old-fashioned girl who is more interested in his heart than in material things. When his elderly landlady vanishes, her newly arrived niece, Ally, seems to hold the clues to her disappearance. Jack at first dismisses Ally as another material girl, but as he digs deeper into Alice's mystery, he learns that Ally is more than what she seems and worries that the girl he's coming to love might be a scam artist or worse.