At twenty-two, the last thing Holly Evans expected to be
doing was watching her funeral from the first level of
heaven. She had just received a promotion at work, and she
was about to become engaged to her boyfriend. She had
everything to live for, yet she supposedly killed herself.
Holly is adamant that she did not kill herself, and is very
vocal during her funeral. Her outbursts get her sent to
the spiritual realigner, Dr Hill. He tells her that she
has too many emotional ties to earth, and she needs to get
rid of them in order to be promoted to the next level. In
order to do that, Holly needs to return to earth and prove
that she did not commit suicide. However, her essence will
need to occupy a recently deceased person's body. The body
is viable for forty-eight hours after death. Will Holly be
able to tie up all her loose ends in two day's time?
Vince Murphy is a young computer tech and one of Holly's
coworkers whose life is about to take an unexpected turn.
Vince's body is scheduled for occupation by one Holly
Evans; however, he is still settled nicely inside his own
body and has no plans of leaving it. Holly thinks it is
bad enough to go back in a man's body, but one that she
knew as a computer geek is a bit of a stretch. On the
bright side, he does have a nice body, and one that is well
acquainted with her circle of friends and possible
murderer. The downside is having to fight for control of
the body when she is the interloper. Can Holly convince
her friends who she is and get them to help her? Can Holly
convince Vince to let her take control of his body and aid
her in her quest? Will Holly be able to succeed when it
seems she is doomed from the start?
Amanda Ashby has written a delightful debut. It is a
light, heart-warming romance. Her characters are perfectly
suited for each other. Holly is a girl out to right past
wrongs that gets more than she bargained for. Vince is a
down to earth guy who has a very high tolerance of people
and spirits. Together, they are a barrel full of laughs
as they compete for control of Vince's body. YOU HAD ME AT
HALO is a gloriously, charming tale.
Holly Evans has just seen her own body laid to rest. Now she
would like to move onto the afterlife. But apparently she
has some mortal baggage to unload first, starting with the
matter of how she died. Her heavenly shrink isn't buying
that she didn't kill herself- and says she must return to
earth to straighten things out. The thing is, she needs to
borrow the body of computer geek Vince Murphy to do it. Oh,
and although Vince was supposed to have vacated the
premises, he apparently never got the memo.
Now, Holly
has forty-eight hours to resolve her issues while sharing
arms, legs, and...other things...with a guy she barely
noticed while she was alive. But the real surprise is what
life has to offer when you have only two days to live it.
