in Fox Hollow. She would a need a car if she was going to have any kind of life here. How she was going to afford such a thing was another matter entirely. She only had so much savings. The expense of living in the city had robbed her of the opportunity to put away any kind of nest egg. She did well there, but even with her salary, bonuses, and incentives, she lived on a tight budget.

Old-fashioned streetlamps lined the sidewalk as she left the narrow, one-way streets of the residential area behind and approached civilization. The sounds of traffic and canned muzak greeted her as she entered what everyone called the square, even though the shopping district was really more of a bracket-shaped area, consisting of three long, perpendicular stretches of sidewalk filled with trendy restaurants and cute stores...

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