title: Chandler's Daughter: A Lexy Connor Mystery
author:  Truly Donovan 
description: "...an absolute delight." -- <i><i>Mystery News</i>, Volume 18, Issue 2, April/May 2000</i><br /><br />"Lots of laughs and accurate observations on modern life from Lexy who has been around in her time ..." -- <i>Dorris Ann Norris, Librarian, on <i>DorothyL</i> newsgroup, June 13, 2000</i>
zlib_text: DONOVAN’S WOMAN
  AMANDA ASHLEY
  
  Copyright © 2016 Amanda Ashley
  Published by Butterfly Kisses Press
  
  CHAPTER 1
  The woman with the long golden-blonde hair was still sitting at the end of the bar when the last sky
  pilot staggered out of the place. Gryff Donovan shook his head. He didn’t know who in blazes she
  was, but as sure as white tigers ran wild in the jungles of Brynn Tor, she didn’t belong in a two-bit
  dive like this. She was too quiet, too polite, and looked far too innocent. So, who in hell was she?
  And what in blue blazes was she doing in a slag heap like Ironntown?
  Picking up a rag, Gryff began to wipe the bar top, hoping she would take the hint and get lost so
  he could close up. But she just continued to sit there, staring into her empty glass as if it held the
  answers to all the mysteries in the galaxy.
  Damn and blast. He was going to have to throw her out.
  Tossing the rag aside, he moved toward the end of the bar.
  The woman didn’t stir, didn’t look up at his approach.
  “We’re 