"A wonderful book with a surprising ending!"

Daisy Ann Minor woke up on her thirty-fourth birthday looked in the mirror and decided she was boring and she looked boring. Her job as the chief librarian in Hillsboro had filled her life until now. Now she was thinking about marriage and babies. She knew in order to accomplish what she wanted she needed to move out on her own and completely makeover the way she looked. She asked Todd Lawrence someone who lived in New York and worked in the theater before moving back home and opening an antique store in Huntsville for help. Todd knew clothes and he also knew how to make the house Daisy rented look good. After she had the look she wanted, she asked Todd about the bars and clubs outside Hillsboro since their little town was dry. Of the three clubs he told her about, she chose the Buffalo Club. When she went to the Buffalo Club, she had no idea that the Chief of Police of Hillsboro Jack Russo would be there. Although Russo was single, Daisy didn't consider him because she considered him to be too macho and he called her Miss Daisy.

Jack had spent summers in Hillsboro with his Aunt Bessie when he was a child. So when he was looking around for a change from the big city, he came to Hillsboro to look around and liked what he saw. He applied for the job as police chief and Mayor Tommy Nolan hired him. He liked his job and the mayor left him alone to do his job. He even liked Daisy even though he thought she was a prude. Another detective from another town asked him to help in trying to find out where the drug GHB was coming from. There had been an increase in the number of date rape cases. The detective thought since Jack was new to the area, and Hillsboro was dry, he could check out some of the bars around Hillsboro.

Daisy and Jack would end up in the Buffalo Club at the same time and Jack would have to rescue her during a brawl. Daisy didn't like it because she was having so much fun dancing and didn't want Jack's presence to ruin it for her. On her next visit to the Buffalo Club another fight broke out and Jack was there again. Daisy and Jack began to think that their destiny was to have a relationship. What they didn't know was that they were on a journey that would put Daisy's life in danger and land him in a bigger operation than he could ever imagine.

OPEN SEASON is vintage Linda Howard, mixing love and suspense together. Her primary characters, Jack and Daisy are well developed and get into some fun situations. Linda is also good with keeping her secondary plots from overshadowing the main plot or the main characters. This is just a wonderful book with a surprising ending.

Reviewer Hattie Boyd

Reviewed by Guest Reviewer
Courtesy Heart Rate Reviews
Posted October 8, 2001