Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts
Published: May 27,
2025 by St. Martin's Press
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.
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.
My Thoughts: Nora
Roberts has a way of writing books that pull the reader right in and never lets
them go. Hidden Nature is one of those
books. I started the book just looking
for something to entertain me and keep my attention (I’ve had a book drought
lately) and Hidden Nature did that and so much more. I started the book and could not stop
reading. I was invested in Sloan’s story
and her finding out what was happening to the people disappearing.
Hidden Nature has a few storylines that intertwine. I enjoyed that the story was not a
straightforward, one storyline book.
The multiple storylines gave a deeper look into the characters and their
lives. The storylines are all
intertwined, making each storyline important to the others. I was invested in all the characters and
their stories.
I loved the romance and that it was not the focus of the
story. Sloan’s family is amazing and
she is so lucky to have so many people care about her. It was fun getting to see the personalities of
her family come through while they were supporting her.
Thank you St. Martin’s Press for a copy of the book in
exchange for my honest review.
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She worked briefly as a legal secretary. “I could type fast
but couldn’t spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever,” she says now. After
her sons were born she stayed home and tried every craft that came along. A
blizzard in February 1979 forced her hand to try another creative outlet. She
was snowed in with a three and six year old with no kindergarten respite in
sight and a dwindling supply of chocolate.
Born into a family of readers, Nora had never known a time
that she wasn’t reading or making up stories. During the now-famous blizzard,
she pulled out a pencil and notebook and began to write down one of those
stories. It was there that a career was born. Several manuscripts and
rejections later, her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published
by Silhouette in 1981.
Nora met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired
him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Since that time,
they’ve expanded their home, traveled the world and opened a bookstore
together.
Through the years, Nora has always been surrounded by men.
Not only was she the youngest in her family, but she was also the only girl.
She has raised two sons. Having spent her life surrounded by men, Ms. Roberts
has a fairly good view of the workings of the male mind, which is a constant
delight to her readers. It was, she’s been quoted as saying, a choice between
figuring men out or running away screaming.
Nora is a member of several writers groups and has won
countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry.
Recently The New Yorker called her “America’s favorite
novelist.”
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