Casee read and reviewed Burn a little bit ago and she enjoyed this book so it’s got me curious about Ice. Is anyone going to read it? Did anyone like Burn? (Holly: I’m surprised LH is releasing two books in one year. When was the last time she did that?)
’Tis the season for mistletoe and holly, Santa . . . and suspense. And the gift that keeps on giving is Ice: premier thriller author Linda Howard’s breathless tale of a man, a woman, and a battle for survival against an unforgiving winter–and an unrelenting killer. Oh what fun it is to read.
Gabriel McQueen has only just arrived home on holiday leave from the service when his county-sheriff father sends him back out again with new marching orders. A brewing ice storm, and a distant neighbor who’s fallen out of contact, have the local lawman concerned. So he enlists Gabriel to make the long haul to the middle of nowhere, and make sure Lolly Helton is safe and sound. It’s a trip the younger McQueen would rather not make given the bitter winter weather–and the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly. But there’s no talking back when your dad is the town’s top cop. And there’s no turning back when night falls just as Gabriel arrives–and discovers that the weather outside isn’t the only thing that’s frightful. S
potting strangers in Lolly’s home–one of them packing a weapon–is all it takes to kick Gabriel into combat mode. And his stealth training is all he needs to extract Lolly from the house without alerting her captors. But when the escape is discovered, the heat–and the hunt–are on. And the winter woods are nowhere to be once the ice storm touches down, dropping trees, blocking roads, and trapping the fleeing pair in the freezing dark.
For those interested in reading this book, it comes out on November 10, 2009 and the blurb sounds pretty good. So mark those calendars!
This book is available from Ballantine. You can pre-order it here or here in e-format.
Does anyone know if Ice is a sequel? I read somewhere that it was, yet the names of the characters don’t come from Burn.
Ms Howard has released two books in a year not too long ago–whenever the Blair books came out?–but the second book was always a paperback. Going by the price this one is going to be a hardback.
A rather anemic one, though, at 224 pages.
I’m waiting for the mm edition, thank you so much.
Kim…when I saw Linda Howard at RWA this year in DC we (my friend and I) asked if ICE was related to BURN and she said no! She said ICE is a totally separate book from BURN no relation what so ever! My friend thought ICE would be Sydney’s story and Linda says she has no plan to write anything involving Sydney.
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1.) Very relief it’s not Sydney’s story – the brief glimpse into her head in Burn was enough.
2.) Ah crap, does this mean frigid, uncomfortable sex again like Up, Close and Dangerous?
*sigh*
don’t get me wrong, i’m a hopeless die-hard. i’ve already pre-ordered it.
Thanks for clearing up the confusion, Ing.