Name: Tribute
ISBN: 9780399155093

Nora Roberts

Working to restore a family farmhouse, former child actress Cilla McGowan remembers her actress grandmother's fatal overdose years earlier before meeting a handsome neighbor and discovering a cache of letters that suggests her grandmother had been pregnant at the time of her death. (Romance)

Tribute

Working to restore a family farmhouse, Cilla McGowan remembers her grandmother's fatal overdose years earlier before meeting a handsome neighbor and discovering a cache of letters that suggests her grandmother had been pregnant at the time of her death. Reprint.

Celeste Richardson

Have I mentioned how much I love Nora? She’s the ultimate source of mental comfort for me, and my mom, and my Memaw, and countless others across the globe. I maintain that her novels are the equivalent of a bubble bath for the brain, and that’s just what I needed this past week. I was terribly sick and the most effective medicines I found for my state of mind were reading this book and catching up on Doctor Who. 

I’ve never read a bad Nora novel. But there are definitely some I love more than others, and this is on the top of that list. Tribute is among my favorites of Nora’s standalone works. I love me a home renovation, and a woman making headway in a profession that is generally considered a man’s game, and a look inside a writer’s or an artist’s life, and a good family drama, and a generational mystery, and a beautifully sweet romance, and a close-knit small town. And an ugly, intelligent, charming dog who is totally a character in his own right. This novel has all of those elements. The characters are vibrant and deep, the setting is incredibly charming, and the plot is surprisingly multifaceted and well-paced. 

I’ve read this book in the past. Multiple times. And yet I actually didn’t remember exactly who the baddie was, or what the climax would entail, so it was all pleasantly new to me. What I did know for sure was that the end would be happy, which is why it was the perfect choice for a sick day. I can’t wait until enough years have gone by for me to forget again, so I can read it with fresh eyes once more.

Working to restore a family farmhouse, former child actress Cilla McGowan remembers her actress grandmother's fatal overdose years earlier before meeting a handsome neighbor and discovering a cache of letters that suggests her grandmother had been pregnant at the time of her death. 800,000 first printing.

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Cilla McGowan - granddaughter of movie goddess Janet Hardy - has fled the cut-throat world of Hollywood for the peace and quiet of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Cilla restores houses for a living and has always dreamed of returning her grandmother's country retreat to its former glory. But a tragedy haunts the old farmhouse, and Cilla's restoration project is stirring up old scandals along with the dust and cobwebs. As Cilla begins to dig deeper into her grandmother's mysterious death thirty years ago, events take a darker turn. Someone in town is determined to keep the truth buried - at any cost. Cilla's new neighbour Ford Sawyer wants to help - but Ford is exactly the kind of man Cilla is running from . . .

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A young woman gets caught up in the secrets and shadows of a big-screen legend and a small-town scandal in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Nora Roberts. Cilla McGowan, a former child star, has found a more satisfying life restoring homes. So she comes to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley to save the dilapidated farmhouse of her grandmother—a legendary actress who died of an overdose there more than thirty years ago. Plunging into the project with gusto, Cilla’s almost too busy and exhausted to notice her neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer. Determined not to carry on the family tradition of ill-fated romances, Cilla steels herself against Ford’s quirky charm, though she can’t help indulging in a little fantasy. But it’s reality that holds its share of dangers for Cilla. A cache of unsigned letters found in the attic points to a mysterious romance in her grandmother’s life, and may be what sparks a frightening, violent assault. Now, if Cilla and Ford are unable to sort out who is targeting her and why, she may, just like her world-famous grandmother, be cut down in the prime of her life.

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