After her bedmate dies, a adolescent widow, Cate Nightingale, moves with her accompanying baby sons to the aback of above boondocks of Trail Spot, Idaho. Believing the move to this rural beginning from burghal Seattle is in the best interests of her adolescent family, Cate opens a bed and breakfast that caters to hunters, bedrock climbers and added tourists.
One day, a guest, Jeffrey Layton, allegedly to abstain actuality apparent by addition in the dining room, climbs out of his bedchamber window, abrogation his accouterments behind. back he fails to return, Cate letters his dematerialization to the bounded authorities, and again food his attache and his atom kit in her attic.
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It turns out that Layton has taken commodity basic to the bread-and-butter interests of bounded mobster, Salazar Bandini. The Chicago abomination bang-up hires hit man, Yuell Faulkner to retrieve the baseborn article. Faulkner sends two of his goons to Trail Spot and the Nightingale Bed and Breakfast.
Upon accession at the rural B and B, the assassin accoutrements promptly booty Cate and her friend, Neenah, hostage, ambitious that Layton's accouterments be accustomed to them. bounded handyman, Calvin Harris, rescues the two women, and again sends the assassins on their way with Layton's suitcase
Unfortunately, back the two killers chase the suitcase, they do not acquisition Bandini's missing item. Realizing that the atom kit was not included with the suitcase, they afield achieve that Cate has advisedly kept it from them. In adjustment to get the kit, they appoint bounded beef and again abode the boondocks of Trail Spot beneath siege.
How Cate, ex-marine, Calvin and his above commander, Joshua Creed, bandage the citizens of Trail Spot calm to abide the baleful advance makes for an agitative and fast-paced story. The artifice is somewhat archetypal of the adventurous abstruseness genre, yet the plight of the capital characters engages your accord and holds your absorption as the adventure unfolds. Additionally, the evolving affair amid "silent" Cal and the admirable widow, Cate generates the appropriate affecting sparks. Whether they are abstention bullets, aggressive rocks, or adequate a adventurous interlude, the heroine, arising from her affliction to acquisition beatitude and the aloof hero, extenuative the boondocks by vanquishing the bad guys do not abort to please. Linda Howard's Cover of Night is a ablaze but absorbing novel.
Cover of Night by Linda Howard
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