Olivermagnus's Reviews > Into the Night

As usual in this series, there are three related storylines woven together. The main story features Mike Muldoon and Joan DaCosta. Mike is extraordinarily nice and incredibly handsome. Joan is a White House staffer in charge of keeping the president’s adult daughter on the straight and narrow. The angst between them us that Joan is seven years older than Mike. How horrifying!

The second story line involves Joan’s grandparents. Charlotte Fletcher DaCosta lost her first husband in the attack on Pearl Harbor and then married her second husband, Vince, who was wounded in Tarawa. They have had almost sixty happy years together as a couple. They reveal the poignant story of how they met and fell in love throughout the book.

The third story involves Sam Starrett and his wife, Mary Lou. They have a miserable marriage. Sam's former girlfriend, Mary Lou, told him she was pregnant at the end of Book 3, but didn't mention the part about sabotaging his condoms so she would get pregnant. He and Alyssa Locke had recently declared their love for one another. I know readers are supposed to be rooting for Sam and Alyssa but my heart broke for Mary Lou, a young woman who's battling alcoholism, but is an incredibly kind woman and wonderful mother. Yes, I know she tricked him but I was happy to see how hard she worked to try and make up for that.

This wasn't my favorite Troubleshooters novel but I am interested in what happens in the next book, Gone Too Far, which is supposed to conclude the Sam/Alyssa/Mary Lou triangle.