Ginger,
I don't like 'cheap' guns but I have a Taurus PT145 and love it. Very accurate holds 9+1 rounds and got it for $299 from CDNN, with two clips and hard case. I also have an FN FNP compact 9, and one of the ultimate pistols; the HK P7 ($799, but one of the most accurate semi auto pistols ever made). But the next pistol I want to get is a Kahr PM45 or a Colt New Agent. Both fabulous guns.
The Kahr is almost, I say almost, as sexy as you are.
and that's not my heart throbbing.
Matt