"Christmas gifts aren't always just a fun surprise. Sometimes they totally take your breath away." Blake O'Hara Bartholomew From National Bestselling and award winning Author Beth Albright, comes a new, funny, heartwarming southern Christmas tale -told as only Beth Albright can tell. Inheriting this old southern mansion might have been the best thing to ever happen to Hollywood chef Rhonda Cartwright. It brought her back home to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, her long lost hometown. Restoring the old place to all its former glory, she is ready for the house to make its debut as Tuscaloosa's new finest B&B. The Tuscaloosa Christmas Gala will be the stage for it all and it's only a few days away. With her new lover and old best friends surrounding her, she is poised to finally get the life she has always dreamed of: safe and secure and predictable. But just when Rhonda Cartwright thinks she has finally uncovered the last of the family secrets, a woman from the past shows up on her doorstep with secrets of her own. And just wait till Rhonda's unpredictable, unapologetic mother appears at the Christmas Gala with a surprise date. Christmas chaos ensues and Rhonda and her group of Belles will be on the case, trying to pull it all together before the big night of the Gala. Christmastime in the Deep South is almost always full of surprises. Just not this kind of surprise. Rhonda needs a miracle to pull off the Gala, or a real life Santa-well maybe she'll find both, right here in Dixie. Beth Albright is at her southern best with this new series of sexy romance, laugh out loud comedy, and edge of your seat mystery-exactly what we have come to love in the Beth Albright brand So grab your girlfriends and put on your seatbelts for this series, IN DIXIE, an exciting joyride through the Deep South that will keep you guessing laughing and crying until the final shocking pages.