Intelligence officer, Heather Langstrom is taken captive and tortured, but in a lucky break, a Delta Force team led by Captain Jace Reed intercepts Heather as she is escaping during their mission. Once Heather begins to recover from her injuries, she and Jace along with a counterterrorism team, work together to ferret out a plot that might involve a death threat to the President on his upcoming visit or to innocent victims in the vicinity. While their attraction to each other builds, Jace and Heather have to figure out how to work together to overcome this threat.

Night Hush is the first book in the Duty and Honor series. While there are romantic elements to this plot, the number of characters and the amount of political discourse, makes this seem more like a Tom Clancy novel rather than a romance. However, there are points in the story when the romance between the protagonists takes center stage, but those moments are almost like a separate story. There is a lot of military speak in this book, but since the author has a military background, it seems authentic, if not overdone. Overall, Night Hush is a good beginning to the Duty and Honor series, introducing many characters and plot lines for future books. ( )