’Tis the growing season for mistletoe and holly, Santa . and suspense. As well as the present that maintains on giving is usually Ice: premier thriller author Linda Howard’s breathless tale of a guy, a female, and a fight for success against an unforgiving winter-and an unrelenting killer. Ah what joy it is to read.

Gabriel McQueen has only just arrived home on christmas leave from the program when his county-sheriff father sends him back again out again with brand-new marching purchases. A brewing glaciers surprise, and a faraway neighbor about Glaciers: A Book who’s fallen out of get in touch with, have the neighborhood lawman concerned. Therefore he enlists Gabriel to help make the long haul to the center of nowhere, and make certain Lolly Helton is secure. It’s a vacation the younger McQueen would prefer to not make provided the bitter winter season weather-and the icy conditions that have often been around between him and Lolly.

But there’s no talking back when your dad is the town’s best cop. And there’ s no turning when night time falls just like Gabriel arrives-and discovers that the weather outside isn’t the only thing that’s frightful. Spotting strangers in Lolly’ s home-one of them packaging a weapon-is all it takes to kick Gabriel into combat setting. And his stealth schooling can be all he must extract Lolly from the house without alerting her captors. But when the escape is uncovered, the heat-and the hunt-are on. And the winter woods are nowhere to become once the ice storm touches down, dropping trees and shrubs, blocking roads, and trapping the fleeing pair in the freezing dark.