Tribute - Nora Roberts

Synopsis: Janet Hardy, the glamorous but troubled movie star, commits suicide in her country retreat in 1973. Leaving Little Farm to her daughter the house is neglected and left to run down, for many years until her granddaughter, Cilla McGowan persuades her mother to sell the house to her. Cilla, a failed child star herself, is determined to restore the house, and in the process establish herself as a property developer. Little Farm is also located in her father's hometown, and this gives her the chance to connect with him and his other family. She also learns that s a teenager her uncle died in a tragic car accident, which left another boy paralysed, this ...  Read the complete review

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, ...  Read the complete review