The Hollow Needle Book

This is a great story about a teacher with a heart and a Nancy Drew complex!!! Allegra has returned home after finally leaving her abusive husband. She is now a teacher to Special Eduction students ( the so called Bedlam in the title). These kids all have a history of some sort but none of them are really bad kids.
Allegra lives with her gran, who is a sexual surrogate and her thrice divorced auntie. The trio sing in the local nursing homes (hence the rock and roll queen)

When her nephew tells her that his friend and her student Sarah has gone missing, she finds that no-one is very quick to worry about the missing girl. With a lecherous coach and a boyfriend who has been pretty uch foisted on her by her family, Allegra has her hands full.

Enter Sloan. Sexy, badass DEA agent. When Allegra stumbles into a drug bust whilst searching for Sarah she locks horns with the agent. There follows a hysterical telephone tag regarding the return of her property, much to the amusement of Sloan's fellow agents!!! When he repeatedly turns up where he's not invited, Allegra tries to get him involved in her quest to find Sarah.

With the help of her nephew, Nick, they follow the trail of sarah with the help of students, old and new, who have an ambiguous approach to law and order!!

Sloan and Allegra are amazingly hot stuff together. Lets just say I will never look at a gurney in the same way ever again!!! He's rough, tough and gruff - the perfect alpha hero. But he seems to enjoy Allegra's stubborn attempts to avoid him! Allegra has overcome a nasty marriage and thankfully is not a whiny female. The secondary characters all add to the madness and the plot zings along.

I highly recommend this book, no matter what type of genre you like. It has action, humour and passion. Let's face it, every female can get behind the sentiment that Allegra states at the opening of the book - panty hose (tights) ARE the work of the devil!!!!