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The Darkest Evening of the Year

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Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern Californiaorganization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered goldenretrievers. Among dog lovers, she’s a legend for the risks she’ll taketo save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amy’s heedlessdevotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whosecommitment she can’t allow herself to return, Amy’s behavior is farmore puzzling and hides a shattering secret.
No one is surprisedwhen Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the femalegolden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate anduncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickieas special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings isshadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. Amysterious home invasion.
And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amy’s every move and that, whoever it is, he’s not alone.  
Someonehas come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature she’salways been there to save. But now there’s no one to save Amy and thoseshe loves.

From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax,The Darkest Evening of the Year is Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.