Biblio Reviews

Night Shadow is the second story in the Exposed  (2016) repackaged first two stories of Nora Roberts' Night Tales Series. It features Cilla O'Rourke from book 1's sister, Deborah O'Roarke who has finished her studies and is now an assistant district attorney in the fictional city of Urbana. She meets her romantic interest, Gage Guthrie, when he saves her from being sexually assaulted in an alleyway...only she met him as alternate-ego-vigilante-superhero, Nemesis. What follows is a Batman inspired romance novel: There's a seemingly Playboy millionaire, his butler, a backstory, a secret cave, sinister criminals, and ruthless politicians who try to overtake the city. Deborah is the new, young, gorgeous, and successful attorney taking the city and its gossip pages by storm. Conflict arises when her ideals of law, order, and justice conflict with those of the man she's falling for. How do they reconcile those differences? On its own, Night Shadow is perfectl...

Hot and potent is apparently what a voice like hot whiskey is like, as described in Night Shift,  book 1 of Nora Roberts' Night Tales Series. Originally published in the early 1990's, the first two books have been repackaged in a two-for-one special entitled, Exposed  (2016). Night time DJ Cilla O'Roarke with the hot whiskey voice is being threatened by a sinister caller. Detective Boyd Fletcher is assigned to protect her. His attraction to Cilla is instantaneous and he has no problem letting her know of his desire to protect and pursue her. Insecure due to her failed marriage, embittered by her parents' deaths, focused on her work, and dedicated to supporting her younger sister, Cilla rejects Boyd's advances at first. But Boyd is unrelenting, as is Cilla's attraction to Boyd. What follows is a satisfying romance with a bit of mystery and suspense, though Boyd's approach to wooing Cilla may seem problematic to some today. A CBR8 Crossposted review.