The Darkest Hour Author:Donna Ball An innocent woman is caught in the crosshairs between the law and the underworld. Suddenly, she is fleeing for her life. — It begins with a ringing pay phone at a lonely all-night gas station. Cathy Hamilton, on her way to her brother in the hospital, feels compelled to answer it-and listens with dawning horror to a message that makes no sense to... more » her.
It makes all too much sense to the shadowy men who converge on her, and Cathy, knowing only that she has been mistaken for someone else, is pitched headlong into flight through the treacherous terrain of northern California.
Her only hope of deliverance lies with an embittered, rough-edged policeman named Dave Jenks. But not even he can promise Cathy survival...« less