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.

Book Summary

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.