Helpful Score: 7
Wonderful Linda Howard story! A bit slow to start but she really built all the characters with all the background info. and made an almost unworkable plot premise acceptable due to explaining the protagonists mind-set. Her attention to detail made the book flow more and made the hero and heroine mean more to me and the secondary characters from the town (Especially Creed & Neenah)! A-/B+
Helpful Score: 4
Another terrific book from Linda Howard. This book is not as sexually charged as previous titles, but the book is powerful and captivates. A small town is cut off from the outside world and taken hostage as enemies fight to recover damaging computer documents that can topple illegal activities. The hero and heroine save the day.
Helpful Score: 4
Cate is still mourning the loss of her husband who died three years earlier of an infection, leaving her with infant twin boys. Realizing that she could not make ends meet in Seattle, she moves to a small town in Idaho and buys a B&B. When her latest guest leaves via the window rather than the front door and does not come back the next day, she notifies the police. Meanwhile, the town is trying desperately to get Cate and the local handyman, Cal together - even going so far as to sabotage her plumbing, but she does not seem to notice him.
The guest is Jeffrey Layton, an accountant who is blackmailing a Chicago gangster. He has info on a flash drive that would ruin the gangster, and he has left a trail straight to Cate's door. When the gangster hires thugs to bring Jeffrey and the flash drive in, they rough up Cate and her friend and have a run-in Cal, who would do anything to protect Cate. The thugs leave with bruised egos and Layton's suitcase. Sensing danger, Cate has her mother take the twins to Seattle for a visit, which turns out to be smart. The two thugs come up with a ridiculous plan to take the town hostage to obtain the flash drive when they determine that she did not give them all Layton's luggage.
When the hired thugs (their numbers swollen to six) strike, all hell breaks loose in Trail Stop, Idaho. Little do they know Cal is a former Special Forces soldier - a one man army if you will. With the aid of his former mentor Joshua Creed, Cal organizes the townspeople who are cut off from the outside world. Cate and Cal are forced to climb their way out of the valley via a sheer cliff to obtain help.
The guest is Jeffrey Layton, an accountant who is blackmailing a Chicago gangster. He has info on a flash drive that would ruin the gangster, and he has left a trail straight to Cate's door. When the gangster hires thugs to bring Jeffrey and the flash drive in, they rough up Cate and her friend and have a run-in Cal, who would do anything to protect Cate. The thugs leave with bruised egos and Layton's suitcase. Sensing danger, Cate has her mother take the twins to Seattle for a visit, which turns out to be smart. The two thugs come up with a ridiculous plan to take the town hostage to obtain the flash drive when they determine that she did not give them all Layton's luggage.
When the hired thugs (their numbers swollen to six) strike, all hell breaks loose in Trail Stop, Idaho. Little do they know Cal is a former Special Forces soldier - a one man army if you will. With the aid of his former mentor Joshua Creed, Cal organizes the townspeople who are cut off from the outside world. Cate and Cal are forced to climb their way out of the valley via a sheer cliff to obtain help.
Helpful Score: 3
Linda Howard is one of my favorite writers of romantic suspence. She pulls the reader into both sides of the story. I like that the "romance" is almost secondary to the real plot of the story.
Helpful Score: 2
Enjoyable characters that you want to get to know. You want everything to turn out ok so you can't put it down until you know they are.
Helpful Score: 2
Book Club Edition. Cate Nightingale runs a bed-and-breakfast in small Idaho town. One morning a guest disappears and starts a train of events that will leave the town and its residents at the mercy of a gang of murderous men.
Helpful Score: 2
Another intriguing story from Linda Howard. There is always a point in her books where you cn no longer put it down. You just have to see how it will all work its way out.
Helpful Score: 2
Interesting how the people in this town pull together to fight the enemy. Sweet romance.
Helpful Score: 1
Loved the character development and storyline. Excellent Suspense with some romance thrown in!
Helpful Score: 1
Loved this book. Great romance with the heroine starting over with her twin sons and the hero seeming laid back until she really needed him. Fast paced. Great read.
Helpful Score: 1
This was an excellent book about a woman who is a survivor on many levels.
Very exciting and romantic as well. It can open your eyes to see the possibilities that exist in our lives.
Very exciting and romantic as well. It can open your eyes to see the possibilities that exist in our lives.
It's about a young widow with toddler twins running a bed & breakfast in a quaint little town and who gets entangled in a long and drawn out story. Plot makes no sense and the romance part doesn't start until like page 235. Not like Linda's earlier novels. If you like mystery, mountain climbing and stories about living in a small town, you might appreciate the book. The ex-military hero is actually quite dashing and honorable and has mooned over the young widow for years when danger strikes their little town and he comes to her rescue.
Helpful Score: 1
I couldn't put this book down. The main characters are very likeable and the story is good.
Helpful Score: 1
Linda Howard did it again. I loved this book, even though it was a little slow at the start.
Helpful Score: 1
A young widow, Cate Nightingale, mother of twin boys, moves to Idaho and opens a bed and breakfast. It doesn't take long for troubel to follow. Armed men storm her B & B and hold her and a friend at gun point. Cal Harris saves the day. He gets the drop on the two and runs them out of town. End of story? Not hardly. The two regroup hire some help and hold the town hostaage. Read on to find out what happens.
Helpful Score: 1
A little different from Howard's other books. However, it has an interesting storyline with very likable characters.
Helpful Score: 1
Great twists and turns. A powerful story that kept me up at night until I finished it!
Helpful Score: 1
A bit slow at first but once you get into the story it is hard to put down.
This was an excellent book. The more you read the more you don't want to put it down. I really enjoyed reading it.
I just love this audio book. It had romance, intrigue and action.
I really enjoyed this story and if I hadn't already read it twice; I would have ordered this book on CD. A very good story.
Another good book by LH. Story changed up on tape 2, this threw me a little, but it was explaining a main part that comes in later. I enjoyed it. Unabridged - 8 tapes
Excellent mystery.
This was a very interesting book really loved it.
Great book from Linda Howard. This book is exciting, and not as focussed on sex as some of the others. Interesting dynamics of a small town, and action involves how a small town which is cut off from the outside world works together.
Linda Howard alone is enough for this book !!!
I have read it 3 or 4 times....time to let it go.
I have read it 3 or 4 times....time to let it go.
An entire town against the bad guys, a heartstopping story and romance. A great read.
The story line was good with great characters and good plot but every time I read a Linda Howard book I tell myself it will be the last because of all of the superflous information she includes that has no relevance to the story line whatsoever. She tells us what color peoples clothes are and how pretty the storm clouds floating by are and a persons every thought during a suspenseful moment; which isn't needed.
This is the kind of book that once you start reading you can't put it down. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
I liked this book, it dragged a bit at the beginning but picked up at the end.
Enjoyed this book quite a bit. Interesting storyline that will keep you on your toes!
In a remote rural town, young widow Cate Nightingale runs a charming bed and breakfast. Business is quiet, but she makes ends meet with the help of the local jack-of-all-trades, Calvin Harris. Then one morning, the only guest vanishes. When arm men storm the house a few days later, Calvin saves the day. The nighmare is just beginning when the entire town is held hostage...
As Howard knows so well how to do, this novel is an interesting combination of thriller, mystery and romance.
From back cover: In a remote rural town, young widow Cate Nightengale runs a charming bed-and-breakfast. Business is quiet, but she makes ends meet with the help of the local jack-of-all-trades, Calvin Harris.
Then one morning, the B and B's only guest vanishes. When armed men storm the house a few days later, Calvin saves the day, forcing the intruders to scatter into the surrounding woods.
The nightmare, however, is just beginning. With the entire town held hostage and cut off from the outside world, Cate and Calvin have no choice but to take the fight to their enemies under the cover of night. While reticent Cal becomes a fearless protector, Cate makes the most daring move of her life...into the very heart of danger.
From back cover: In a remote rural town, young widow Cate Nightengale runs a charming bed-and-breakfast. Business is quiet, but she makes ends meet with the help of the local jack-of-all-trades, Calvin Harris.
Then one morning, the B and B's only guest vanishes. When armed men storm the house a few days later, Calvin saves the day, forcing the intruders to scatter into the surrounding woods.
The nightmare, however, is just beginning. With the entire town held hostage and cut off from the outside world, Cate and Calvin have no choice but to take the fight to their enemies under the cover of night. While reticent Cal becomes a fearless protector, Cate makes the most daring move of her life...into the very heart of danger.
In the charming rural town of Trail Stop, Idaho, accessible only to the outside world by only a single road, young widow Cate Nightingale lives peacefully with her four-year-old twin boys, running a bed and breakfast. Though the overnight guests are few and far between-occasional hunters and lake fisherman-Cate always manages to make ends meet with the help of the local jak-of-all-trades, Calvin Harris, who can handle everything from carpentry to plumbing. But Calvin is not what he seems, Cate's luck is about to run out. One morning, the B&B's only guest inexplicably vanishes, leaving behind his personal effects. A few days later Cate is shocked when armed men storm the house,demanding the mystery man's belongings. Fearing for her children's lives, Cate agrees to cooperate-until Calvin saves the day, forcing the intruders to scatter into the surronding woods. The nightmare, however is just beginning Cate, Calvin and their entire community find themselves cut off and alone as the threat gathers intensity and first blood is drawn. WIth thewir fellow residents trapped and the entire town held hostage, Cate and Calvin have no choice but to take the fight to their enemies under the cover of night. While reticent Cal becomes a fearless protector, Cate makes the most daring move of her life...into the very heart of danger
Excellent, keeps you on the edge of your seat!
Her new novel---breathless action, gripping suspense, and intense romance!
FANTASTIC READ,ITS A REAL PAGE TURNER,COULD HARDLY WAIT TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT!
No one of Linda's best. Hardly any romance to speak of. Okay read.
The Twins!!!
