Night Tales: Nightshade & Night Smoke - Nora Roberts

Charmed - Nora Roberts

Written in the early 1990 s for Mills and Boon, this is one of Nora s earlier works that has just been reprinted. It forms part of a quartet of books called The Donovan Legacy. This is part 3 and follows Anastasia Donovan and Boone Sawyer, but can still be read as a standalone novel. (I have not read parts 1 and 2). Ana, as she is known, is a witch from a long line of magical people hailing from Ireland, but now living in Monterey California, close to her cousins Morgana and Sebastian, both also witches with different gifts. Ana s gift is empathy and healing, and by linking with people she feels their pain and helps to cure them. She is also a qualified herbalist and ...

Tribute - Nora Roberts

suicide? As the attacks on her property grow more violent, she and Ford try to find out who wants her to leave, or worse. My Opinion: This is Nora Roberts at her best. The characters are well drawn and interesting. Cilla is very believable as the failed star struggling to find her way, and deal with not only her own ghosts but also those of her mother and grandmother. She is a strong capable woman who has never found her vocation until now. The romance between her and Ford is a slow burner. There is an immediate attraction but they take their time, so the reader can get to know the characters before they fall for each other. A lot of romance novels rely on a ...

Tribute - Nora Roberts

As I think I ve declared before, Nora Roberts is a consummate storyteller and there is not doubt this is a good story, albeit a somewhat formulaic one. Cilla McGowan had once been a child star in a sitcom, granddaughter of an even more famous film star, who had taken her own life at her farm in Virginia some thirty years before the story begins . Since that time, Cilla s mother has allowed the farm to fall into ruin but now Cilla is there to try to restore it to its former glory and put down some permanent roots in the area. Soon after she arrives, Cilla meets her sexy neighbour, Ford, who is a graphic novelist, and in the way of all good romances, it isn t long before ...