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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Suspense. HTML:From beloved author Nora Roberts comes the #1 New York Times bestseller about shattering loss and shocking discoveryâ??set in a small town nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountainsâ?¦ When five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adventure, danger, and romance. While overseeing the dig, she must try to make sense of a cloud of death and misfortune that hangs over the projectâ??fueling rumors that the site is cursed. She must cope with the presence of her irritatingâ??but irresistibleâ??ex-husband, Jake. And when a stranger claims to know a secret about her privileged Boston childhood, she must question her own… (more)
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Ok, so this is Nora Roberts and there's going to be some hot steamy romance scenes in this book. That's a given. But she writes them well, IMO, and they don't seem to intrude on the plot too much. This book has a good story with lots of twists and turns. I had the "bad guys" pegged all wrong, which is always refreshing. And Ms. Roberts is a master at writing dialog and creating characters that are multi-dimensional and people that you feel like you know by the end of the book. This was a good little book for summertime escapism and I'll give it a 4.5.
Nora Roberts keeps you drawn into her story and leaves you wanting more
I enjoyed this story. Nora Roberts again develops characters who are believable, likable, and interesting. The dig background adds interest layer by layer (pun intended). And while I did not find the "who-done-it" aspects to be riveting, they were reasonably thought-provoking. and unfortunate events raining down on Callie. And an ex-husband thrown in the mix just adds to the drama!
I enjoyed this story. Nora Roberts again develops characters who are believable, likable, and interesting. The dig background adds interest layer by layer (pun intended). And while I did not find the "who-done-it" aspects to be riveting, they were reasonably thought-provoking.
In the first 20 minutes of listening, she "sucked down a diet Pepsi," and "girded her loins" for a confrontation. Either the clichés died down or I became too involved in the story--and I did enjoy the freshness of the story--but I stopped noticing the hackneyed
Roberts is a mixed bag: she avoids giving prices--which dates a book pretty quickly--but then uses slang, which does the same thing. She builds tension nicely, packing surprises along the way but then drifts into bodice-ripping territory.
Oh well, she isn't going after any literature prizes. I thinks she writes to entertain, and at that she succeeds.
This is a very full and well-developed story following Dr. Callie Dunbrook, a 29yo archaeologist who has been called to a site in rural Woodsboro, Maryland, after human bones were found by workers preparing the ground for a new housing development. The bones were carbon
Callie is not-so-pleasantly surprised to learn that her ex-husband has also been hired to work the site as their anthropologist. Jake Greystone and Callie have been divorced for nearly a year but still love each other. They are both hard-headed and stubborn and have to work through that in order to make peace with each other.
Callie receives a second surprise when a strange woman pays a visit to her after seeing her on the news, claiming she is her long-lost birth mother, even providing her birth certificate and baby pictures, as well as family pictures of other relatives who look strikingly like Callie. The only problem is that Callie wasn't adopted...was she?
As Callie studies the past lives of the humans from the ancient settlement they are excavating, she also must delve into her own past as she learns that she was kidnapped when she was three months old and then adopted by her unwitting parents. The site of the dig becomes a place of danger, arson, even murder, but they are at first unsure whether the threats are coming from the locals who want the scientists out or if there is a more sinister plot underfoot.
Roberts does a good job once again of introducing interesting characters whose lives intertwine as friends and family. There is more than one love story in this book, and it is fun to watch the various characters find their way in both romantic love and family matters.