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is one of the world's leading science-fiction writers, and has won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. Born and raised in the US, although of Irish extraction, she now lives permanently in Ireland, in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains, where, as well as writing, she breeds horses. She has recently been awarded the Margaret A. Edwards' Lifetime Achievement Literary Award. She is the creator of the Dragons of Pern series.
What could be yum-yummier than for a lonely middle-aged widow - even a famous children's-book author and a Ph.D. in Library Science like Dana Jane Lovell - to be holed up in a comfortable hotel during a Denver snowstorm, sharing unusual sexual rapport with a handsome, lively, midde-aged man? Dana, a 50-year-old American living in Ireland, still mourning the death of her husband, is even lonelier now that son Tim is in a Pennsylvania college. But then, on a publicity/lecture tour in the States, Dana is knitting her umpteenth Arran sweater on the Denver plane when she hears the opening volley in the delightful siege to come: Dropped any good stitches lately? One thing leads to another - and, by the time the snowstorm grounds the plane, Dana and the man calling himself Dan are launched into days of hotel-pool exercise, a fun trek in the snow, and nights of sportive togetherness. Parting is rather a low, but when Dana arrives in Tulsa there's a frantic phone call: it seems that Dan (real name Jerry Lowell) is about to be charged in the Denver murder of his ex-wife, Noreen Sue, and only Dana can offer an alibi! So Dana returns to Denver to plump for justice, with the coaching of Dan/Jerry's lawyer Peter Taggert. Unfortunately, however, it's Dana's word against the D.A.'s innuendos - and things look pretty bleak. . . until Peter discovers that Dana's a real Ph.D.! And a famous children's-book author! (What D.A. would want to mess with that upright combo?) And finally, before the happy fadeout, Dana will fight the blues, visit son Tim (a likable go-between), and return to Ireland - where she discovers that her sweater gift to Dan/Jerry has a special meaning. Slight but good-natured romance from a popular fantasy writer, knit loose and fluffy. (Kirkus Reviews)
