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Overview

A "powerfully rendered" (Chicgo Tribune) tale from the #1 New York Times bestselling author-now in a French flap trade edition.

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 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-and, with the help of one man, learn the truth about the tragic past. But Sanctuary may be the most dangerous place of all.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
On the heel of the breakout hardcover success of bestseller Montana Sky, Roberts plows through a predictable saga of passion, betrayal and murder involving an estranged Southern family haunted by tragedy. Recovering from a nervous breakdown brought on by a malevolent stalker, photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway returns to Sanctuary, her childhood home located on a small resort island off the coast of Georgia. But the lush island offers little solace, for there Jo must face the troubled family relationships and painful memories caused by her mother's mysterious disappearance 20 years earlier. Soon, however, Jo finds unexpected joy in the love of a man who leads her to the truth about her mother's life and death and about the crazed stalker who wants Jo dead. Roberts has a talent for vivid description: the sounds and smells of this verdant island waft from the page; her characters' sexual encounters mirror the island's fecundity and shimmer with Southern heat. But she dilutes the story with a silly murder mystery that distracts from the intriguing elements of Jo's confrontation with her past, her discovery of true love and her reconciliation with her family. The denouement arrives with a yawn, despite the arrival of a clichd hurricane, which is just one example of how Roberts succumbs to the temptation to throw everything into the pot. 250,000 first printing; $250,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection. (Mar.) FYI: Roberts was the first writer to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America's Hall of Fame.
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There's no looking back for Roberts, who made the break to hardcover with the best-selling Montana Sky (LJ 2/1/96). Her latest tells of a young woman who finds danger and love when she returns to her childhood home.
Kirkus Reviews
Roberts is the perfect perpetual-romance machine. She churns out an almost inhuman number each year; she meets an annual March deadline for her hardcovers (this one even has the same number of pages as last year's bestselling Montana Sky). And each is lively, sexy, and well researched.

Her latest concerns three siblings (the Hathaways) who find lovers and strained relationships while a homicidal madman is threatening their safety. The three live in a beautiful white gothic on the Georgia Sea Island of Lost Desire, which they've turned into an inn. Brian, the eldest—tall, cute, and morose—runs the establishment and is chef of its five-star kitchen. (His father Sam can't understand how a man can "enjoy creating a perfect meringue and still prefer women for sex.") Brian fights halfheartedly against the amorous advances of Kirby, the pretty Yankee doctor who runs the island's clinic; the two eventually end up locked in an embrace against her refrigerator door. Meanwhile, the youngest sib, Alexa Hathaway—sexy Lexy, the island princess with the gypsy hair—has failed at acting in New York and come home to waitress and throw a few tantrums. She fights halfheartedly against the honorable intentions of childhood buddy Giff Verdon, who's good with his hands and doesn't let her get away with much. Finally, there is Jo Ellen, a world-famous photographer who's returned to Desire after a nervous breakdown and is fighting a losing battle against empathic architect Nathan Delaney. Twenty years earlier, the Hathaways' mother, Annabelle, had disappeared, abandoning her family—or so it seemed. Now someone is stalking the family, having even sent Jo Ellen a picture of her mother, dead and naked.

As usual, the romance is better than the weird violence. There's not much suspense here, but it's good to see that heroines are becoming gutsier and heroes better in the kitchen.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780425233559
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 7/7/2009
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 634,344
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 165 novels. She is also the author of the bestselling futuristic suspense series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. She is indisputably the most celebrated and beloved women's fiction writer today. Nora lives in Maryland.

Biography

Not only has Nora Roberts written more bestsellers than anyone else in the world (according to Publishers Weekly), she’s also created a hybrid genre of her own: the futuristic detective romance. And that’s on top of mastering every subgenre in the romance pie: the family saga, the historical, the suspense novel. But this most prolific and versatile of authors might never have tapped into her native talent if it hadn't been for one fateful snowstorm.

As her fans well know, in 1979 a blizzard trapped Roberts at home for a week with two bored little kids and a dwindling supply of chocolate. To maintain her sanity, Roberts started scribbling a story -- a romance novel like the Harlequin paperbacks she'd recently begun reading. The resulting manuscript was rejected by Harlequin, but that didn't matter to Roberts. She was hooked on writing. Several rejected manuscripts later, her first book was accepted for publication by Silhouette.

For several years, Roberts wrote category romances for Silhouette -- short books written to the publisher's specifications for length, subject matter and style, and marketed as part of a series of similar books. Roberts has said she never found the form restrictive. "If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations," she explained. "If this doesn't suit you, you shouldn't write it. I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."

Roberts never violated the reader's expectations, but she did show a gift for bringing something fresh to the romance formula. Her first book, Irish Thoroughbred (1981), had as its heroine a strong-willed horse groom, in contrast to the fluttering young nurses and secretaries who populated most romances at the time. But Roberts's books didn't make significant waves until 1985, when she published Playing the Odds, which introduced the MacGregor clan. It was the first bestseller of many.

Roberts soon made a name for herself as a writer of spellbinding multigenerational sagas, creating families like the Scottish MacGregors, the Irish Donovans and the Ukrainian Stanislaskis. She also began working on romantic suspense novels, in which the love story unfolds beneath a looming threat of violence or disaster. She grew so prolific that she outstripped her publishers' ability to print and market Nora Roberts books, so she created an alter ego, J.D. Robb. Under the pseudonym, she began writing romantic detective novels set in the future. By then, millions of readers had discovered what Publishers Weekly called her "immeasurable diversity and talent."

Although the style and substance of her books has grown, Roberts remains loyal to the genre that launched her career. As she says, "The romance novel at its core celebrates that rush of emotions you have when you are falling in love, and it's a lovely thing to relive those feelings through a book."

Good To Know

Roberts still lives in the same Maryland house she occupied when she first started writing -- though her carpenter husband has built on some additions. She and her husband also own Turn the Page Bookstore Café in Boonsboro, Maryland. When Roberts isn't busy writing, she likes to drop by the store, which specializes in Civil War titles as well as autographed copies of her own books.

Roberts sued fellow writer Janet Dailey in 1997, accusing her of plagiarizing numerous passages of her work over a period of years. Dailey paid a settlement and publicly apologized, blaming stress and a psychological disorder for her misconduct.

    1. Also Known As:
      J. D. Robb; Sarah Hardesty; Jill March; Eleanor Marie Robertson (birth name)
    2. Hometown:
      Keedysville, Maryland
    1. Date of Birth:
      1950
    2. Place of Birth:
      Silver Spring, Maryland

Interviews & Essays

Before the live bn.com chat, Nora Roberts agreed to answer some of our questions:

Q:  Who do you consider the most romantic couple in history?

A: I was asked this question some time ago in another forum. After a little thought, my response was -- and remains -- Gomez and Morticia Addams. I can't help it. When watching "The Addams Family" as a kid, I was so impressed with their relationship, the way he'd roll his eyes at her, the way she slithered around, the undertones of sexuality, and their absolute understanding of each other. Plus I loved his reaction whenever she spoke French. You knew these people had fun together, and if romance can't be fun, what's the point?

Q: What books did you read as a child? Do you read any of the same books to your children?

A: I was lucky to grow up in a household of readers. Everyone in my family read, so that I didn't realize until much later that there were people who didn't read for pleasure. I read all the standards -- Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Black Beauty, and so on -- but there were always tons of books in the house, so I read widely. I started reading to my boys very early. Dr. Seuss was a big favorite, but I think the all-time favorite was Where the Wild Things Are.

Q: What, to you, is the most important day of the year?

A: The most important day of the year is today. There will never be another one.

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  • Posted September 18, 2011

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    fantastic writer

    Loved it. Great plot, great characters. 5 stars!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 19, 2010

    Not My Genre

    I am a little over 250 pages into this book and am struggling through it. I've never read a Nora Roberts book before and I doubt I will ever pick up another. Obviously "romantic suspense" just isn't my genre. I would be enjoying it more if I could find a few characters that were at least likeable in this story. I realize the Hathaway family is dysfunctional, the result of the father and his three children's belief that their wife/mother abandoned them. But why if she was always loving and seemingly contented, would they think this? If it happened in my family, I would always assume foul play. None of it makes sense. Jo is rude. Lexy is a 24-year-old spoiled brat. (I have worse words for them, but I'm being polite.) Everyone on the island seems to have out-of-control hormones. The only reason I can gather than Nathan and Giff seem to care for Jo and Lexy is because they are good-looking, which makes them nearly equally superficial. The father, Sam, seems non-existent and has a real hang up about his son enjoying cooking, even though the son appears to have been running the kitchen at their home/hotel for years. Uh.... how did he get the job anyway? Is there one normal person on this island????

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 22, 2009

    Fantastic book

    This is a fantastic book from a fantastic author. Nora Roberts is by far one of the best writers we have today. I have almost read every book she has written. There are a few I have yet to read, but I'm getting there. Sanctuary, in my opinion, is an edge of your seat read. From page one the story grabs you. I read this book in two days. I only put it down when I had to, otherwise I could be found with the book in my hand. If you have never read a Nora Roberts book then you are missing out on a great way to spend an morning, afternoon or evening.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2011

    pretty good

    I read it recently and I thought it was pretty good. But then again you have to like suspense/romance to like this book. This book made me check my door twice before I went to sleep which to me it makes a pretty good suspense :-) I recommend it!
    p.s. is not scary :)

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  • Posted June 15, 2010

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    My Favorite

    This is by far my favorite Nora Roberts book. The characters in this one feel so real and I can picture everything flawlessly in my mind. It's as though I'm there watching the events unfold. This one in particular seems more real to me than the others that I've read by her thus far. Granted, I've loved every single one, but this one did not remind me that it was fiction. It felt as real as the life I'm living now. Jo was beautiful, down to earth, and she thrilled me with every step she took, every cautious look behind her, etc. I like Roberts' romance novels just fine, but when she adds the thrill and mystery like she did with this one, I find it difficult to put down.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 8, 2010

    ANOTHER GREAT

    It never fails to amaze me how many stories this writer can come up with & the characters she develops. Although I usually read only her strictly romance novels, this time there was more of a thriller aspect to this story & I enjoyed it as well as all of her others, maybe even more.

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  • Posted May 7, 2010

    Pretty good

    Personally, it had the characters in the sack quite often and the storyline was pretty good without so much of it...the descriptions of the area was very nice....could easily picture it in your mind as you read.....

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  • Posted May 5, 2010

    slow

    i just couldn't get into this book.

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  • Posted March 10, 2010

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    NORA ROBERTS - ANOTHER WINNER

    In the beginning you are not aware of the story ahead of you, the ending is surprising and suspenseful. You are in for another Nora Roberts best reads. I couldn't wait to get to the end, then wish that it wasn't over and would continue. I love when Nora puts in the epilouge, it closes all the loose ends. This is a book you can read or listen to on audiobook over and over again. I loved the audiobook you truly become a part of the story.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 27, 2010

    another Nora Roberts winner

    Typical Nora Roberts romance with a murder mystery and great characters. Good for those blah days,

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 13, 2009

    Nicely Predictable

    The story was a bit too sweet/romantic and needed just a bit more punch on the mystery side. Sandra Burr's reading was acceptable, but could have used a little more character distinction. Susan Erikson might have been able to bring this B rated story to life. I do not regret the purchase. I really do like Nora Roberts stories.....and love JD Robb stories!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 30, 2007

    Riviting

    I just finished reading this book and I loved it. It did take me a couple of chapters to really get pulled into this book. Once it did though, I couldn't put it down. I'd recommend it on a list of things to read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 1, 2005

    My Absolute Favorite!

    Sanctuary is my absolute favorite NR book. The characters are captivating and moving. The plot is incredible and very well thought out. The overall story simply blew my mind and I fell in love with each and every character. Although the murder scenes are described in detail, I love it because it helps you understand every single character. This way the reader will understand the murderers next move. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a good romance novel with a twist!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 4, 2004

    Awsome and romantic in a funny way

    the best absolutly my favorite characters are jo and Nathan.a must read

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 17, 2001

    The best book for me

    This book was the one that got me back to reading agin thank you so much. But I read one of your books and it siad that you have a movie coming out and I would like to now when it will be on please

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 17, 2001

    Sadistic Surprise

    I was really surprised at what Romance Writing has turned into. The women in this book want sex that's 'fast and heartless.' Very little real romance. Not only does the murderer kill, but he rapes first. Nora Roberts explains those scenes in detail. Why?? This is the first and only book of hers that I have read. It's the last.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 16, 2001

    Suspenseful

    This book kept me on the edge of my seat. Can't wait for the movie

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2000

    Great!!!

    Nora Roberts is a very talented. This book is one of the best I have read. If you love romance and mystery, you'll love this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 23, 2000

    Best Nora Roberts Book!

    This book is one of the best Nora Roberts books I have read. And I've read most. That's all there is to it, it's the best.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 1, 2000

    great book!!

    This was the first Nora Roberts book that I've ever read, and I would definitely buy her other books. A must read!

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