Augusta Gray is a happilly married housewife in Marin County, Callifornia, devoted to her two girls and her husband, Duke. But recently Augusta has grown afraid to venture alone into the world outside her house so she concocts a plan that will cure her strange phobia and, perhaps improve her marriage. She decides to write an international jogging book.
Despite Duke's initial ridicule, Augusta seriously takes up running and begins her book. She discovers she loves to run and while doing so also discovers Daniel, an old friend, a merchant sailor who, when ashore, is also a runner. He becomes her lover. Someone doesn't like it.
Unaware of her impending doom, Augusta grapples eagerly with her transformation into athlete/unfaithful wife. She notices the presence in her new life of a mysterious red-haired man. Ephraim Johnstone, Augusta's pursuer, is the assassin -- young, brilliant, complicated, and without peer in his profession. He is alarmed to discover that a mere housewife is proving to be the most difficult target of his career.
Library Jounal writes, "This novel is full of good things, all of hem new. Trott is sly and her stylee is amusingly idiosyncratic. A must!
Genre: Literary Fiction
Despite Duke's initial ridicule, Augusta seriously takes up running and begins her book. She discovers she loves to run and while doing so also discovers Daniel, an old friend, a merchant sailor who, when ashore, is also a runner. He becomes her lover. Someone doesn't like it.
Unaware of her impending doom, Augusta grapples eagerly with her transformation into athlete/unfaithful wife. She notices the presence in her new life of a mysterious red-haired man. Ephraim Johnstone, Augusta's pursuer, is the assassin -- young, brilliant, complicated, and without peer in his profession. He is alarmed to discover that a mere housewife is proving to be the most difficult target of his career.
Library Jounal writes, "This novel is full of good things, all of hem new. Trott is sly and her stylee is amusingly idiosyncratic. A must!
Genre: Literary Fiction
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