Midnight Curfew by Penelope Douglas
An emergency alert goes out to every phone on one side of a Florida town. Severe summer storms, high winds, curfew in effect from midnight until six, running through October. It reads like weather. It is not weather. Somebody with money has worked out that a community whose people clean hotel rooms at dawn and close bars at two cannot survive a rule that makes it illegal to be outside at night, and he has written that rule specifically to trap one man. Midnight Curfew by Penelope Douglas hangs an entire novel on that single piece of paperwork, and it is the most efficient thing she has built in years. How Midnight Curfew Is Built The architecture is worth describing, because it does most of the work. Two narrators alternate, both in first person present tense. Dallas Jaeger is twenty-five, teaches philosophy at the private academy on the rich side of the tracks, and belongs to a family that has held its land for five hundred years by refusing to be moved. Callum Ames is …
