Nora Roberts Collection

So as many people know that my book collection is over six thousand books now. If I actually took the time to count them right now, it may very well be over that by now. 

However, even my husband knows that there is one author that I prize above all others. Her name is Nora Roberts. 

That is not to say that the other authors I read aren't great or one of my favorites, just that Nora Roberts will always come first in my book. 

One of the main reasons is because she is the author that got me back into reading in the first place. The very first book I read was Rapture in Death, technically under her pen name J.D Robb. In my 8th grade English class, we were told to partner up and do a type of book report. It was a great assignment because we could pick any book that we wanted. 

My partner was a friend of mine that I had been close to since elementary school and I let her pick the book. She was reading the In Death series by J.D Robb and was on Rapture in Death when the report came around. I said what the hell. At the time I wasn't reading at all so it didn't make any difference to me. 

Let me tell you, that book got me right back into reading. After I read Rapture in Death, I had to go back to the beginning. It was a series that I kept up with and still do to this day. When I discovered that J.D Robb was a pen name for Nora Roberts I just had to see what she was like and I was not disappointed. 

Nora Roberts got me back into reading and I absolutely love her. I hope that when we go to Boonsboro, I can meet her. I'll be star struck. It'll be a dream come true. Which is why I doubt it lol. 

I have collected almost every cover of each book. I have the large prints and mass market paperbacks. I'm even starting to collect the hard back versions as well as audio. I have all of the DVD's that were made and will soon be ordering the VHS of the one I don't have. 

I have worked and my husband has worked very hard to make this into a collection and I love him for helping me even though he doesn't read at all. 

If you haven't read her books you really should. 

Nora Roberts goes by J.D Robb, Sarah Hardesty and Jill March.

HAPPY READING!!!!!

Books from January till Now

Before I moved on I figured I'd enlighten people on the books that I have read so far. When I say that I am behind on posting about them, you'll be able to see just what I mean with this list. However, keep in mind the order that I am posting it right now is not the order that I have read them in.

1. If I Were You- Lisa Renee Jones
2. Being Me- Lisa Renee Jones
3. Revealing Us- Lisa Renee Jones
4. No In Between- Lisa Renee Jones
5. All of Me- Lisa Renee Jones
6. Bared to You- Sylvia Day
7. Reflected in You- Sylvia Day
8. Entwined With You- Sylvia Day
9. Captivated by You- Sylvia Day
10. Hard Wired- Meredith Wild
11. Hard Pressed- Meredith Wild
12.  Hard Line- Meredith Wild
13. Hard Limit- Meredith Wild
14. Key of Light- Nora Roberts
15. Mysterious- Nora Roberts
16. Once Burned- Jeaniene Frost
17. Twice Tempted- Jeaniene Frost
18. Bound by Flames- Jeaniene Frost
19. One Thousand Years to Forever- Mary Moriarty
20. Waking up Married- Mira Lyn Kelly

And I'm currently reading:

21. Ceremony in Death by JD Robb AKA Nora Roberts.

How's that for a book list lol.

Mysterious by Nora Roberts Part 3 Final Post

The third and final book in Mysterious is The Right Path.

I really like this one because it is like one of the fantasies you have of romance when you're young. Morgan is finally convinced by her best friend Liz to come take a vacation and visit her in Greece.

It was there though that she had also been frightened out of her wits. Morgan went for a midnight swim and found herself assaulted by a handsome stranger. It was that assailment that changed the reason why she was there.

Morgan had a mystery to solve and she was going to solve it. Love did not enter into the equation for her yet it happened.

Nicholas Gregoras is half Greek and around Morgan that's the only side that seems to show itself. WOrking for a secret organization, Nick must keep Morgan at a safe distance. His organization wants to use her but all he can think about is keeping her safe.

Everything is horrible. The timing mainly. Nick is trying to bust a smuggling ring and can't afford to not be able to take risks. Yet Morgan keeps getting in the way.

In the end it's together that they end the ring and together they will start their life together in Greece. It's truly a pirate story for adults.

THe story that we all make up in our minds when we're young. That we'll have an adventure and meet some dark handsome stranger that somehow saves us and then we go on adventures together till the end of time.

lol very fanciful I have to admit.

Mysterious by Nora Roberts Part 2

The second story in this novel is Search for Love.

I will even admit that this one isn't one of my favorites that Nora Roberts has done. I'll read it and like it but not one of my favs.

This time we follow Serenity Smith to Brittany to meet her long lost maternal grandmother. It's only been a short time since her parents had died in a plane crash and now her grandmother has practically summoned her across the ocean to visit.

For Serenity this was her last connection to her mom and she wasn't going to miss out on this opportunity. She had to wonder though, why her parents never spoke about her grandmother...ever.

Soon she would see why. However, first she will meet her kissing cousin, Christophe de Kergallen, who dislikes her on the spot....or at least that's how he makes it seem.

For as much as they fight throughout the story you would think that they hate each other with a passion. Serenity takes great pains to conceal that she's fallen in love with this cold aristocrat.

Even Christophe felt Serenity bewitched him the moment she stepped off the train. But what her Grandmother the Comtesse Francoise de Kergallen has told him of Serenity's father makes what he feels for her wrong.

See, before Serenity was even born the Comtesse had a Raphael that she wanted cleaned  and entrusted her father to do so. She had thought nothing of him being there, seeing as her daughter was already engaged to another man. So the day that she fainted in the garden and told the Comtesse that she was pregnant, it was a great shock.

They decided to go to America after the Comtesse disowned her only daughter. She also labeled him then as a thief.

For she believed that he took her Raphael. It was foolish pride that denied her, her daughter and her granddaughter.

It's up to Serenity to clear her father's name and discover what's beneath that cold pride of her grandmother's. For Serenity is hoping beyond hope that she has just one more family member left in the world.

As for Christophe, he's hoping to win the heart of a feisty American woman and make her his forever.

Seeing how there's french in here you can imagine how I've butchered some of these words in my head lol. It's nice read though, and I'd recommend it.

Mysterious 3 books in 1 by Nora Roberts Part 1

While waiting for the fourth book of the Inside Out series to come in, I started a book by my favorite romance author, Nora Roberts. This one, Mysterious, is a compilation of three books in one. For that reason I will post about this book in three parts. Just to make things easier.

The first one is This Magic Moment, staring main characters of Ryan Swan and Peirce Atkins. Ryan Swan is the daughter of Bennett Swan, the owner (I assume) of Swan Productions and she has fought tooth and nail for where she is in the company.

Bennett Swan had wanted a son and he had done nothing to show otherwise after Ryan's mother had died. In his eyes he gave her the best but in hers, Bennett had just shipped her off for someone else to handle. Ryan works as hard as she does one because she loves her job but also because she hopes that one day he will turn to her and say he's just proud to be her father.

I think all children want that from their parents though. When it doesn't happen that little ray of hope stays and never dies out. We just stop thinking about it and move on with our life.

Pierce Atkins had a hard start to life in general. His father was a drunk that after he had a few drinks liked to beat on his mother. Most of the time he would end up in the closet for most of the beatings but every so often his father would hit him as well. The state took him away from his parents and placed him in an orphanage. Pierce however was unadoptable because though the state took him away, his parents wouldn't sign their rights away.

He had become a magician during his stay in a hospital when he was young. Pierce's story was that he fell down some stairs and they were diagnosing him as paralyzed. Of course he wouldn't accept that so he busted ass every day to make sure he would walk again. When he did, magic was his career choice and he became the best. Famous for escapes, his reasoning will come as perfect to most people.

When he was younger, he was locked in and couldn't get out. Now he can and he keeps coming up with new escapes to prove to himself that he really can escape anything now.

Two people with two very different things to prove, come together in this novel to prove that love can overcome anything....even a dark past.

However their hurdle comes when Ryan learns of the new escape that Pierce plans to do for the special. Priding herself on being a strong woman, when she hears his plans it brings her to her knees. It's too dangerous and it scares her near to death.

The question the whole story comes down to is can she love him as he is?

If we love someone, what right do we really have to ask them to change? Especially if what we want them to change is their way of life?

I'm On My Knees Now

Normally if I can't get a book, I would just give up. You know if it's not in print anymore or not in my price range no amount of research or looking will get it for me. 

However when it comes to this specific book, I have now sunk to my knees. This is the only book, literally the only book that I need to complete my Nora Roberts collection. I even have all of her JD Robb books, does that tell you how much I love her?

The only problem right now is that this book is out of print. I wrote to Turn the Page and as of today I have written to Nora Roberts' publisher. I am seriously begging here for this book. 

I can't afford fifty dollars for one book but if I can't find it any other way I'll start putting money aside for it. I've searched high and low and not even second hand stores have the book. 

Now I am asking anyone that sees this post. If you see this book I'd love to know. Not finding it is breaking my heart here.