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Date read: August 27, 2025
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Nora Roberts
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Olivia’s parents were among Hollywood’s golden couples—until the night a monster came and took her mother away forever. A monster with the face of her father...Thoughts on River's End: This is a reread for me, but I read it long enough ago that I genuinely couldn't remember anything more than snapshots. Namely, Detective Brady finding Olivia hiding with her stuffed animals. In other words, it was like a whole new book for me.
Sheltered from the truth, an older Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror—but her recurring nightmares make her realize she must piece together the real story. Now, assisted by Noah Brady, the son of the police detective who found her cowering in her closet so many years before, she may have her chance. Noah wants to reconstruct the night that has become an infamous part of Hollywood history. He also wants to help Olivia and heal the longing in her lonely heart. But once the door to her past is opened, there’s no telling what’s waiting on the other side. For somewhere, not too far away, the monster walks again...
So. A terrible crime happens to a shining star and the only witness is her young daughter. Olivia is whisked away by her mother's family after her mother's death and shielded as best she can be from the media frenzy that goes along with a movie star being murdered. She grows up safe and loved and protected, but the idea that she is the the product of a victim and a murderer sits heavy on her. And she vows that she'll never give anybody the type of power over her that her mother gave her father.
Except there's a boy who became a man. The son of the detective who investigated her mother's death. He's never forgotten how that case affected his father and Olivia's lived in a little space in his head for years. As had the details of the murder. So when Olivia's convicted father reaches out to him to (finally) tell his side of the story, he knows he has to do it.
Which means getting in touch with Olivia. Who doesn't want anything to do with him or his book thanks to a mistake he made years ago. (Look, these two have baggage. It's complicated, but not insurmountable.)
A terrible crime, family bonds, the drive to find the truth, a man who's determined to see things through to the end, and a woman who has to deal with the past before she can have a future. A solid NR book I enjoyed reading again.
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