Nightwork

LoveReading Says

Rooted in relationships, and the need to feel rooted and find the light of love, Nightwork by Nora Roberts is one for readers who like fast-moving page-turners with heart. If you’re new to the author, the fact this is a standalone novel makes it the ideal route into her best-selling brand of suspenseful romance.

At the tender age of nine, Harry “learned the hard way that playing by the rules as his mother had didn’t mean much to the suits and ties and brief­cases”. So, he learned how to pick pockets, discovering that “the right and wrong his mom had so carefully taught him didn’t mean much when she was puking in the bathroom after her chemo”. 

A criminal with a code of conduct (he only takes what he needs), Harry adopts a new identity when he leaves his home city. While keeping up with his nightwork, he gets himself an education and falls for Miranda, just as his past comes snapping at his heels. 

While some of Harry’s decisions will have you yelling at the page, urging him to take a different path, the escalating tension and sense of being given a second chance make this a super-satisfying, romantic ride.

Reviewed by Joanne Owen
Joanne Owen’s lifelong love of reading and writing began when she was growing up in Pembrokeshire, and very much wished that witches (and Mrs Pepperpot) were real.
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About Nightwork

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces an unforgettable thief in an unputdownable new novel... Greed. Desire. Obsession. Revenge . . . It's all in a night's work. Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago--but kept up his nightwork, developing into a master thief with a code of honor and an expertise in not attracting attention--or getting attached. Until he meets Miranda Emerson, and the powerful bond between them upends all his rules. But along the way, Booth has made some dangerous associations, including the ruthless Carter LaPorte, who sees Booth as a tool he controls for his own profit. Knowing LaPorte will leverage any personal connection, Booth abandons Miranda for her own safety--cruelly, with no explanation--and disappears. But the bond between Miranda and Booth is too strong, pulling them inexorably back together. Now Booth must face LaPorte, to truly free himself and Miranda once and for all.

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