Diamond bay by linda howard6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() When they were in high school, Lolly always looked down her nose at him. He wants to spend the afternoon with his son and he doesn’t really like Lolly. Gabriel is not thrilled about his father’s assignment. His father, the local sheriff, sends him to retrieve Lolly Helton from her mountain home because she won’t be able to survive up there if there is an icestorm. There is an impending icestorm and military policeman, Gabriel, is home on leave. The story takes place, mostly, over the space of one afternoon. However, in keeping with your current writing voice, this book is far more focused on the action/suspense than it is on the characters and their relationship with each other. The first and second chapters read like a vintage category Howard romance and if it had kept in that vein, I would have been able to recommend this unreservedly. I know that I would have paid quite a bit to read the Diamond Bay trilogy because it was so good. ![]() A good category length Howard is worth hardcover pricing. When I started ICE, I began to get excited. Those have sold like crazy so I guess that readers are unfazed by the length of the story and the cost. I remember thinking unkind thoughts about this format when Janet Evanovich put out her first Christmas hardcover. I confess that I was at first taken aback by the length of this hardcover. Jane C Reviews / C Reviews Category cabin romance / Linda-Howard / romantic-suspense 16 Comments ![]()
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