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Date read: March 16, 2025
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Nora Roberts
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store—and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world.Thoughts on Hidden Nature: It's always a treat to dive into a NR book with the family ties and suspenseful happenings. Sloan is a strong woman who's found her place in the world. She has plans for her future and a family who fully supports her. Then she gets shot and is forced to slow down to get healed up and...her priorities shift. Well, that's not exactly right. Her plans for her future are still in place, she just has to recalibrate her mindset to see that maybe she can take a different path to get where she wants to be.
After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents’ peaceful house in Heron’s Rest. As for the boyfriend who dumped her via text while she was in the hospital, good riddance.
She may be down, but she’s not out. So when a woman vanishes, leaving her car behind in a supermarket parking lot, Sloan searches online for similar cases. She finds them, spread across three states. Men and women, old and young—the missing seem to have nothing in common. And the abductions keep happening.
Luckily, the new man in her life shares her passion for solving this mystery. But it will take every ounce of endurance to get to the dark heart of this bizarre case—and she's willing to risk her life again if that's what it takes to stop the horror.
But before she can take any new paths, she needs to get back into fighting shape. Which isn't necessarily difficult once she sets down a plan, but it takes time. With nothing but said time on her hands for a while, Sloan begins following the disappearance of a local woman. And she begins making connections. She's not officially on the case, mind you, but a LEO can't turn their brains off even when they're recuperating and maybe following the scant clues gives her a reason to take her mind off the slowness (which isn't actually slow, mind you) of her healing.
Meanwhile, the Littlefield brothers have moved into town and are settling in and there are SPARKS between Sloan and Nash. Okay, maybe those parks didn't happen right away (THAT happened between Sloan's sister and Nash's brother), but there's something there and the more time Sloan and Nash spend together, the more sparky they become.
A little danger, a twisted romance, family, chemistry, a man who is breaking free of expectations to figure out what he wants out of life, and a lady who has to reclaim her bearings after an unexpected injury. *thumbs up*
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