Sanctuary

by Nora Roberts

Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

FIC K Rob

Publication

Jove Books

Pages

516

Description

Fiction. Literature. Romance. Suspense. HTML:From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a seductive and suspenseful novel of dangerous liaisons and family betrayals�?�Photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped the house called Sanctuary long ago. She'd spent her loneliest years there, after the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. Yet the sprawling inn on an island off the Georgia coast continues to haunt her dreams. And now, even more haunting are the pictures someone is sending her: strange close-ups and candids, culminating in the most shocking portrait of all�??a photo of her mother�??naked, beautiful, and dead. Now Jo must return to the island, and to her bitterly estranged family. With the help of Nathan Delaney�??who was on the island the summer her mother disappeared�??Jo hopes to learn the truth about the tragic past. But Sanctuary may be the most dangerou… (more)

Collection

Fiction

Barcode

8903

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

1997-03

Physical description

516 p.; 6.75 inches

ISBN

0515122734 / 9780515122732

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User reviews

LibraryThing member whybehave2002

Started out sounding like "Rebecca" but soon I was jumping all over the place trying to figure out who dunnit. For some reason, I found this a little dark and couldn't read it at night. It wasn't as light a read as I had expected.

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LibraryThing member zebraannie

Got bogged down in the adjectives. Too erotic but good plot.

LibraryThing member Lgrattan

enjoyable, light read

LibraryThing member BackyardHorse

Someone is stalking a successful young photographer. After a breakdown she returns to her childhood home, but her stalker follows her. Will she end up like her missing mother? Read this one. It is one that as an author I have read, reread, and studied. Nora Roberts at her best.

LibraryThing member moonshineandrosefire

Jo Ellen is a photographer who sees a photograph of her mother - young, beautiful, naked and unmistakably dead. She suffers a breakdown and goes home to Sanctuary Inn, the bed and breakfast run by her brother and sister. While there, she tries to reconnect with her brother, Brian, and sister, Lexy.

Twenty years ago, the siblings' mother went missing, shattering the entire family. When Jo Ellen comes back from the hospital, the picture is missing and while at Sanctuary she meets Nathan who has secrets which might have lured a killer to Sanctuary.

I enjoyed this book - the mystery was engrossing, however I don't really like straight romance all that much. I view Nora Roberts as a romance writer primarily, and this was my first Nora Roberts novel. Overall, I enjoyed the mystery, but I felt the romance was too coincidental. I give this book a B+!

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LibraryThing member Marcella1717

One of my favorite NR books. I like the plot, the characters, the relationships. Everything. Classic Nora Roberts.

LibraryThing member wyvernfriend

Jo Ellen Hathaway left home years ago to pursue a career as a photographer in New York but stress and a stalker sending her pictures, including one that appears to be her mother, dead. Her mother vanished years ago leaving her grieving father to deal with three children, which he did, badly.

Now she

feels that she has to face her past, home means visiting old wounds. Her stalker seems to have followed her but she's finding solace with Nathan Delaney who is licking the wounds of a failed marriage and secrets that he found after his father died.

It's fairly typically Nora Roberts, these days she would have stretched the romances out over more books.

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LibraryThing member soosthemoose

Really enjoyed this book. A story of old hurts and healing. Likeable characters, romance and a lot of suspense.

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