In A Finger in the Water, newcomer Lee Schulstad creates some of the most lively, achingly heroic characters the literary world has seen in a long time. Bursting with a frenetic energy, and written with a bold, lush prose, this is the tale of a woman's quest for love that leads her down a path strewn with hazards, sometimes accidental and sometimes not. When Rita Wiest won the lottery, she thought her life would get easier. Wrong. Her fiance turns vicious, she unwittingly falls for an earthbound angel who mysteriously vanishes, and she becomes involved with a devious lawman, who didn't have love on his agenda until he met Rita."