But now there’s no one to save Amy and those she loves. Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature she’s always been there to save. A mysterious home invasion.Īnd the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amy’s every move and that, whoever it is, he’s not alone. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home.
To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she can’t allow herself to return, Amy’s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret. Among her friends, Amy’s heedless devotion is often cause for concern.
Among dog lovers, she’s a legend for the risks she’ll take to save an animal from abuse. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force he’s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fear-and of enduring devotion.Īmy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. A handful of murderers are after Brian and Amy, stealing, spying and murdering anyone who gets in their way.īrian and Amy try and work past their respective dark pasts in order to save each other, their dogs and other innocents caught in the mess.With each of his #1 New York Times bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. But at this moment of joy an unknown and dangerous person arrives on the scene.Įvidence mounts up that Amy is being pursued by those who wish her, Brian and her dogs harm. Nickie is instantly recognized as pack leader by Amy's own two dogs, and her bond with Amy is like no other dog's. Is it this reckless devotion to her work that prevents her making a commitment to the love of her life, Brian McCarthy? It seems so when a particularly thrilling and bizarre rescue brings Nickie into her care. She has a treasury of astonishing rescue stories-a friend tells her she'll be broke by the time she's 40 if she carries on funding the work. With money she inherited from a source she will never discuss, she founded and runs a group that rescues abandoned or abused golden retrievers.
The title is a possible allusion to Robert Frost's " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".Īmy Redwing's risk-taking on behalf of desperate dogs is legendary. The Darkest Evening of the Year is a novel by the author Dean Koontz, released on November 27, 2007.
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