Oh, You Beautiful Doll

YOU GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL DOLL

Mandy Harlon's handmade dolls reputedly had special powers. But you couldn't prove that by Jack Slater.

In the few hours he'd been in the Appalachian wilderness, he was run off a mountain, robbed of his purchase and sent to a hick jail, where a blueberry good-old-boy sheriff threatened to let him rot.

Dazed but undaunted, Jack refused to return to New York without his doll -- especially once he met its maker. Even on the back end of a shotgun, Mandy was one beautiful, if feisty, mountain woman.

She was also on the front end of trouble. And none too quickly Jack learned Mandy was one living doll who couldn't be toyed with...