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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 night-work.
Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he takes on new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention-or get attached.
Still, he can't help letting his guard down when he meets Miranda Emerson. But the powerful bond between them cannot last-because not all thieves follow Harry's code of honor.
Some pay others to take risks so they can hoard more treasures. Some are driven by a desire to own people the way they own paintings and jewels.
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. The man is a predator more frightening than the alligators that haunt the bayou-and when he strong arms Harry into robbing a Baltimore Museum, Harry abandons Mirandacruelly, with no explanationand disappears.
But the bond between Miranda and Booth is too strong, pulling them relentlessly back together. But no matter what name he uses or where he goes, LaPorte casts a shadow over Harry's life. To truly free himself, he must face down his enemy once and for all.
Only then can he hope to possess something more valuable than anything he has ever stolen. Author Nora Roberts introduces an unforgettable thief in her newest novel Nightwork.
Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls--inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom--until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering who it is they see when they look in the mirror.
Then Liz, V and Rachel each receive a letter from Emily with devastating news. She implores the girls who were once her best friends to reunite at Camp Birchwood one last time, to spend a week together revisiting the dreams they'd put aside and repair the relationships they'd allowed to sour.
But the women are not the same idealistic, confident girls who once ruled Camp Birchwood, and perhaps some friendships aren't meant to last forever. Viola Shipman’s novel The Clover Girls, is about how friendship can fall apart and heal.
Alice Gunnersley and Alfie Mack sleep just a few feet apart from one another. They talk for hours every day. And they've never seen each other face-to-face.
After being in terrible accidents, the two now share the same ward as long-term residents of St. Francis's Hospital. Although they don't get off to the best start, the close quarters (and Alfie's persistence to befriend everyone he meets) brings them closer together.
Pretty soon, no one can make Alice laugh as hard as Alfie does, and Alfie feels like he's finally found a true confidante in Alice. Between their late-night talks and inside jokes, something more than friendship begins to slowly blossom between them.
But as their conditions improve and the end of their stay draws closer, Alfie and Alice are forced to decide whether it's worth continuing a relationship with someone who's seen all the worst parts of you, but never seen your actual face.
Before I Saw You, by author Emily Houghton is a heartrending novel about two patients who fall in love as they recover from traumatic injuries in the same hospital ward.