Night Shadows

by Lynnette Hallberg

Warm, sultry Louisiana nights, a sexy-to-her-stilettoed-toes blues singer, one hot-under-the-collar fireman, and a vengeful arsonist. Explosions guaranteed! New Orleans, the Big Easy-until your life and family are threatened. Suspicious fires have struck Torey Hart's family twice in two years, and her father tops arson-investigator Lieutenant Jack Stevens' suspect list. As Jack probes for evidence to prove Hart guilty, his feelings for Torey complicate the investigation. Feelings can have no place in his profession, and he works equally hard to avoid them in his personal life. And yet, the blaze that destroyed Torey's home and her father's business is nothing compared to the heat, the sizzle that ignites between himself and Torey. The true arsonist creeps ever closer, and the danger becomes deadly. Can Torey stay alive long enough, and lure Jack close enough to teach him to love and trust again?

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 16, 2010

About the author

Lynnette Hallberg, aka Lynnette Austin, was raised in Pennsylvania’s Alleghany Mountains, moved to New York, then to the Rockies in Wyoming. Presently she divides her time between Florida’s beaches and Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. She has a Master’s in Educational Leadership and taught middle school language arts before leaving it to write full-time. Her books have finaled in Romance Writers of America’s national Golden Heart Contest, PASIC’s Book of Your Heart Contest, and Georgia Romance Writers’ Maggie Contest. Her newest book, Somebody Like You, a contemporary Western, is written as Lynnette Austin, and is the first in the Maverick Junction series. She was previously published with Kensington with Enchanted Evening. Moonlight, Motorcycles, and Bad Boys, Chantilly Lace and A Pretty Face, and Night Shadows, a romantic suspense, were published by The Wild Rose Press. Just A Little White Lie is a Carina Press release.

Reviews

[Lhenry · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some things I liked in this and some I didn't I think it is realistic that they were mixed up, unsure where to take the relationship, but they were bouncing back and forth like ping pong balls whether to have a relationship or not till got so repetative it seemed silly. I can suspend my disbelief most of the times, but I kept wondering why the police didn't seem involved in the arson investigation at all, especially when it was linked to a murder. In fact over all Jack did not seem like the brightest bulb - he wasn't particularly effective in solving the arson case, and his reasons for staying out of a relationship didn't really hang true to me. Torey seemed a little smarter, but how could she think that any arson investigator will believe a suspect didn't do just because he said he didn't do it? But I liked the lack of perfection in the two characters, as well as her father and his step father. Also liked the weirdness of why the villain wanted revenge on Torey's dad.

[Maryclaire · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a first time read for me with Lynnette Hallberg, but it won't be my last. Her books are very descriptive. She can make you feel you are on the spot of the crime scene,and actually think of smelling gasoline or in the bedroom of the characters involed. Dusty, paint-spattered wooden floors, tears running down cheeks and the heart felt love of a parent for their child. She describes the silence in a room as a morning mist on a meadow. I learned about arson investigations, songs of romance and living in New Orleans. A very enjoyable read.