Coming home again after a tragedy, and finding your forever home are just two themes perfectly executed in the newest book from Nora Roberts, Hidden Nature.

After officer Sloan Cooper is almost fatally shot in the line of duty, her family brings her to her childhood home to heal and recoup. While on the operating table, Sloan had an out of body experience and feels she came back to the earthly plane for a specific reason – one she needs to discover. With the warmth and love of her family she is back on track to a stable life again.

Nash Littlefield and his brother Theo are recent occupants of Sloan’s tiny town. The brothers have formed a anew business and it’s taking Heron’s Rest by storm.

And both brothers are falling hard for the Cooper sisters, Sloan and her younger sister Drea.

Told with the wit and expert writing of a dialogue master, the love stories of Theo and Nash and the Cooper women would have been enough to make this a 5 star read for me. But, Ms Roberts added a subplot that includes a serial murdering duo.

When Sloan is put in the couple’s sites, all hell breaks loose and the reason she was brought back to life is finally evident to Sloan.

As always, Ms Roberts books are detailed, well thought out, and have the most excellent dialogue imaginable.
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press, the author and Netgalley for a sneak peek at another wonderful addition to my Nora Roberts library.

Nora Roberts has another winner with “Hidden Nature,” but that’s no surprise - Nora can write! In this book, she introduces a fantastic main character named Sloan Cooper, a tough as nails police officer working on a multiple missing persons case. I was absorbed in the story from beginning to end, lots of twists that kept me guessing. Highly recommend for mystery readers!

Thanks for the opportunity to read in advance!

3 stars. I've read my fair share of Nora Roberts books, and unfortunately, Hidden Nature is my least favorite. I was so excited by the blurb of this one that I rushed to read it as soon as it popped up on netgalley. Truly, no one writes romantic suspense like Nora Roberts. And Hidden Nature had a lot of things that felt typical Nora (in a good way). In fact, this book reminded me a lot, in feel, of one of her most recent books- Mind Games. And I actually really liked the heroine, who was hard working and tenacious. But ultimately, I ended up having a hard time with the bad guys and also with the romance itself. I just felt no chemistry between the heroine and the hero. They meet pretty late in the book and I honestly didn't even buy them as friends, let alone lovers. The bad guys were creepy. Super super creepy. Like, the type of creepy you'd expect from a Criminal Minds episode. All in all, this wasn't my favorite from Nora, but that doesn't mean it was a bad book. She just happens to set the bar really high for herself. And I will 100% continue to read her books, because I'm truly a big fan of them. Thank you so much to Roberts, SMP, and netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.