Manhunt

Winnie has established herself in business as a self-employed CPA. In the modern vernacular, she has arrived! She is successful--and sadly, all alone. She makes a plan to find a mate and forges into the hunt as if the steps were columns on a spreadsheet drawn up for a client. But, this isn't for a client. It's for her. It's her New Year's Resolution, be married by the end of the new year.Being a bit naive and more than a bit clueless, she itemizes what she perceives to be the necessary steps to her goal, much like a to-do list.Thanks to her organizational skills the plan is successful. Men are popping up like toads in a downpour. There's the questionable new neighbor, the other neighbor's good-looking nephew, the fellow from the supermarket, the preacher, the car salesman, and the list goes on. There are many many frogs and nary a prince.The man who bowls her over is the Devil at the masquerade party who waltz's her into a dark corner, then disappears quicker than Cinderella in her pumpkin.Strange nocturnal activities in the alley between her home and the spinster's house across the way draw her attention and raise her curiosity. She spies on the men who come at odd times and cart bags in and out of the spinster's house.Her manhunt, simple? So it would seem. Dangerous? Who'da thunk it! Not Winnie, that's for sure, until life becomes terrifying. Her home is broken into, her underwear stolen and shots are fired through her bedroom window. Her curiosity into the goings on in the alley has drawn attention to her. It's possible Winnie could wind up dead instead of married.