Nora Roberts

...always puzzles me. High Noon is a fabulous, many-layered book with lots of side stories. It feels much less like a cookie cutter book than the "In Death" series. Lots of Roberts' tales don't tempt me to crack the covers. I wouldn't have read this one, except it was handed to me by Heidi. I can't refuse a free read.

High Noon has everything a girl could want--tough heroine looking out for her family, a rich, handsome bachelor, and several chillingly despicable bad guys. And romance--the hot variety. The heroine talks people off ledges and out of hostage situations. Not your everyday skill set!