Stranger by Megan Hart

"I pay strangers to sleep with me. I have my reasons…

But they're not the ones you'd expect."

And so opens Stranger, which of all the Harrisburg books may be my favorite.

One night Grace goes to a bar to pick up a stranger, well not really a stranger but a pre-arranged rent-boy from the service she utilized for such things.  She's a funeral director who has taken over the family business and wants to get laid without the effort, stress or entanglement.  Funny thing happens on the way to the rent-boy, she meets Sam, who she thinks is the stranger she is there to meet, they go to his hotel room, which appears to be well lived in, and they have a hot steamy night of sweaty sex until she get a message to go on a death call.  The other message she listens to as she's leaving is from the actual boytoy Jack, who apologized for not being able to make their appointment.  Wait, what now... Grace is a little freaked, well she wanted sex with a stranger and that's what she got.

Mrs. Smith's service fixes the problem and she has an encounter or two with Jack (who we met in Dirty and will see again, although here he's minus his Prince Albert.)

She walks back in to her life thinking she'll never see Sam I Am again... until one night when she's alone she hears noises in the basement and like every bad horror movie heroine instead of calling the cops she heads downstairs with a golf club.  Before she remembers that Mr. Stewart is in the room and as per Jewish custom someone is sitting and praying (or in Sam's case singing) with the body until the funeral an burial.  After getting hit pretty hard in the noggin Sam and Grace reconnect.

He's a singer who had been living in NYC trying to make it big, she's running her Dad's business but he's not really letting her run it.

There are the usual struggles while they try and figure things out, Grace still sees Jack from time to time, and I'm sure we all know how that's going to go over with Sam.

Like all of Megan's book the characters are well developed and suck you in from the get go.

Buy it, read it, love it.

Best line in the book, "Guys dig cars almost as much as they dig pussy."  This is in reference to Grace's Camaro... which is truly bitchin'.

Seriously...