Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions …
The
man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb
left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when
Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man
she loved wasn’t just dead. He never really existed.
Shelby
takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south to seek comfort in her
hometown, where she meets someone new: Griff Lott, a successful
contractor. But her husband had secrets she has yet to discover. Even in
this small town, surrounded by loved ones, danger is closer than she
knows—and threatens Griff, as well. And an attempted murder is only the
beginning …
Published: 16th April 2015 Publisher: Piatkus Author Website: Click here Goodreads : Click here Series or Stand-Alone: Stand Alone Source: Review Copy from Publisher
My Review
OMG I loved this book!!! Did I mention that I loved this book? I have to be honest and say that in the past I had thought that all Nora Roberts books were all steamy erotic love stories but I was wrong. The first book I read of hers was The Reef (adored that one too!) which was more thriller style with a bit of romance mixed in. With this book it was another thriller with a bit of romance mixed in and I really loved that mixture. You have poor Shelby who finds out her husband has died and then finds out that he was an adulterer and liar... What could be worse. Shelby is forced into a new life and has to deal with a lot of things following those revelations. What made the story great for me was when she moves back home to live with her parents. There she rekindles old friendships and makes new ones, including meeting Griff. LOVE the character of Griff. Such a down to earth guy who will do anything for the people he loves.
There are a lot of twists and turns in this story; just when you think something is the truth something else happens which puts a massive question mark over it again. I just had to keep reading until I got to the end because I couldn't wait any longer to find out how the story would end! This book definitely gets the full five stars from me, LOVED it! Can't wait to pick up more books by Nora Roberts - the sooner the better!!!!
About the Author From Goodreads
Eleanor Marie Robertson was born
on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. She was the
youngest of five children, also the only girl, of a marriage with Irish
ancestors. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important
in her life. She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with
instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her sophomore year in
high school, she transferred to a local public school, where she met
Ronald Aufdem-Brinke, her future first husband.
In August 17,
1968, as soon as she had graduated from high school, Eleanor married,
against her parents' wishes; the couple settled in Keedysville,
Maryland. Her husband worked at his father's sheet-metal business before
joining Nora's parents in their lighting company, while she worked
briefly as a legal secretary. "I could type fast but couldn't spell; I
was the worst legal secretary ever," she says now. After their sons, Dan
and Jason, were born, she stayed home. Calling this her "Earth Mother"
years, she spent much of her time doing crafts, including ceramics and
sewing her children's clothes. The couple ended up separating; they
divorced in January 1985.
In February 1979, a blizzard forced her
hand to try another creative outlet. She was snowed in with a three-
and a six-year-old with no kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling
supply of chocolate. During the now famous blizzard, she pulled out a
pencil and notebook and began to write down one of her stories. It was
then that a career was born. Several manuscripts and rejections later,
her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette
in 1981 under the authorship of Nora Roberts, a shortened form of her
birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson, because she assumed that all authors
had pen names.
Eleanor wrote, under another pseudonym (Jill March), a story titled "Melodies of Love" for a magazine.
Eleanor
met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build
bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Bruce owns and operates a
bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland called "Turn the Page Books". Since
getting married, Eleanor and Bruce have expanded their home and traveled
the world.
In 1992, she adopted another pseudonym so as to
publish a futuristic-suspense novel series. She first decided to use the
pseudonym D.J. MacGregor, but discovered that this pseudonym was used
by another author. In 1995, her first "In Death" serial novel was
published under the pseudonym J.D. Robb. The initials "J.D." were taken
from her sons, Jason and Dan, while "Robb" is a shortened form of
Roberts.
Eleanor has also been known as Sara Hardesty, because
when the "Born In" series was released in U.K. it carried that name
instead of Nora Roberts. She has since changed publishers.
Eleanor
has been plagiarized by another best-selling romance writer, Janet
Dailey. The practice came to light after a reader read Nora Roberts' Sweet Revenge and Janet Dailey's Notorious
back-to-back; the reader noticed several similarities and posted the
comparable passages on the Internet. Calling the plagiarism "mind rape,"
Eleanor sued Janet Daily. In 1997, Janet admitted to repeatedly
plagiarizing from Nora Roberts' work and that both Aspen Gold and Notorious
lifted heavily from Roberts' work. Both of those novels were pulled
from print after Janet's admission. She acknowledged the plagiarism and
blamed it on a psychological disorder. In a settlement, Janet paid
Eleanor an undisclosed sum, which Eleanor donated to the Literacy
Volunteers of America.
A founding member of the Romance Writers
of America (R.W.A.), Eleanor was the first inductee in the
organization's Hall of Fame. She also is a member of several writers'
groups and has won countless awards.
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