It’s basically wedding porn about four best friends who set up a full service wedding planning business. Bride QuartetĮven though this isn’t strictly about home renovation, Roberts’ Bride Quartet is a fantastic follow up. After you finish all three books in the trilogy, you can go to the real life version of the Inn run by Nora Roberts and her husband. She and Cameron both think they’re too busy for romance.īut as their connection grows beyond a teenage crush they begin building a new family together. Clare is a widowed mother of three young boys.

He’s buried himself in work, but there is one woman he’s had a crush on since high school.

The first book in the series, The Next Always features Cameron, the architect of the family. Start with the Inn at Boonsboro Trilogy featuring three brothers restoring a historic hotel on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. So if you want your romance served up with a dash of picking paint colors or laying new tile, Nora Roberts has you covered. I’ve even heard her books referred to as “renovation porn” by more than one reader. Some themes come up in her books again and again, and one of those themes is home renovation. I would bet everything I own that Nora Roberts is a huge HGTV fan. Next or If You Don’t Like Suspense: Hit up One of Her Lighter Pinterest-y Home Renovation Series These are what made readers fall in love with her in the 80s and 90s and are what many think of when they hear the name Nora Roberts. And the one that makes the most sense to me are her contemporary suspense romance novels. There are two places I see to start with Nora Roberts. Where to Start With the Best Nora Roberts Books: Contemporary Suspense Remember when I said she wrote more than 225 books? Here is one of many possible pathways for readers and the romance-novel curious for working your way through her prolific collection. But for those without a romance expert for a mother, her backlog can be daunting. I found her by reading the massive collection my mom hid in boxes and under her bed. Not only has she received a Romance Writers of America lifetime achievement award, in 2008 they renamed the honor to become the “Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award.”

She’s written more than 225 romance novels, helped define and advocate for the genre, and written so so many of my favorite happily ever afters. There’s not one best Nora Roberts book to start with. It’s hard to know where to start writing about Nora Roberts because…well she’s Nora Roberts.

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