This story opens with a lady named Dallas Dubois
grumbling "Who the heck gets married during football
season?" and complaining that a baby is making its arrival
on the same day as a college football classic is played.
Her unusual attitude may be explained by the fact that
she's a TV reporter. Dallas used to have a huge crush on
local quarterback Cal Hollingsworth, but that was years
ago, so why does she still tremble when she sees him?
In SLEIGH BELLES Cal is now a computer science professor,
unmarried as it happens, and Dallas can't avoid him at the
hospital as she covers a local celebrity's new baby.
Alabama is getting unseasonably bad weather, an ice-storm
is predicted, and Christmas is fast approaching. People
stock up on food and the children rehearse for a play. A
Southern gentleman, Cal decides to court the lady he'd
snubbed back in the day, back when they were both immature
and going different directions. If that has to mean a
paper cup of merlot, because she's frantically covering
stories, then he'll do what it takes to get her attention.
There's a lot of TV production scenes, kids behaving and
misbehaving and weather galore. Dallas has family issues
which she doesn't want to go into but luckily for her Cal
has time and patience. Beth Albright has written two
previous tales in this setting, Sassy Belles and Wedding
Belles, so if you decide you want to read more of her
you've a treat in store. "We do Christmas up big at my
house," a character declares as she invites the outsider
Dallas to a party. SLEIGH BELLES is an unusual look at the
holiday season and what it can bring, including new
beginnings.
Join the Sassy Belles this holiday season—it's Christmas,
Southern-style!
With her hair perfectly coiffed, nails freshly manicured and
a heavy trail of perfume wafting behind her, local news
reporter Dallas Dubois is sure she's about to kick her
career—and maybe her love life—into high gear. The director
of the Tuscaloosa children's Christmas play has fallen ill,
and Dallas is ordered by her station manager to take the
reins. Everyone is shocked—especially Cal Hollingsworth, who
still remembers her as the Ice Queen from high school.
If nothing else, Dallas has never met a challenge that a
little lip gloss and a Chanel knockoff couldn't fix. But she
has no idea how to relate to these kids, and their brutal
honesty is giving her pause. Things are made even more
complicated by the butterflies she gets whenever Cal is near…
.
But when long-lost family members reenter her life, Dallas's
icy veneer begins to melt. And with Cal by her side, she
soon realizes that it's what's under all the hair spray that
counts.
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