BooksBarbecue
Back Rising tides Save as PDF
Chapters (26)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Dear Reader
  5. PROLOGUE
  6. ONE
  7. TWO
  8. THREE
  9. FOUR
  10. FIVE
  11. SIX
  12. SEVEN
  13. EIGHT
  14. NINE
  15. TEN
  16. ELEVEN
  17. TWELVE
  18. THIRTEEN
  19. FOURTEEN
  20. FIFTEEN
  21. SIXTEEN
  22. SEVENTEEN
  23. EIGHTEEN
  24. NINETEEN
  25. TWENTY
  26. INNER HARBOR

In the world of television talk shows, dark secrets hide behind its brightest stars . . . ‘‘The incomparable Nora Roberts once again delivers ...tense, compelling, and riveting.’’

—Romantic Times

‘‘A fun read!’’

—Publishers Weekly

‘‘Top-notch ...First-rate reading.’’

—Rendezvous

HONEST ILLUSIONS

The daughter of a world-renowned magician, Roxy Nouvelle has inherited her father’s talents—and his penchant for jewel thievery. ‘‘Roxy and Luke will steal your heart.They are magic ... ’’

—CATHERINE COULTER

‘‘A captivating story.You’ll fall in love with these wonderful characters just as I did.’’

—JULIE GARWOOD

‘‘ Honest Illusions is pure magic.’’

—EILEEN GOUDGE

Titles by Nora Roberts

  • HOT ICE
  • SACRED SINS
  • BRAZEN VIRTUE
  • SWEET REVENGE
  • PUBLIC SECRETS
  • GENUINE LIES
  • CARNAL INNOCENCE
  • DIVINE EVIL
  • HONEST ILLUSIONS
  • PRIVATE SCANDALS
  • BORN IN FIRE
  • BORN IN ICE
  • BORN IN SHAME
  • HIDDEN RICHES
  • TRUE BETRAYALS
  • DARING TO DREAM
  • HOLDING THE DREAM
  • FINDING THE DREAM
  • MONTANA SKY
  • SEA SWEPT
  • RISING TIDES
  • INNER HARBOR
  • SANCTUARY
  • HOMEPORT
  • THE REEF

FROM THE HEART
( anthology )
ONCE UPON A CASTLE
( anthology with Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan,
and Marianne Willman )

RIVER’S END
in hardcover from G. P. Putnam’s Sons

Titles written as J. D. Robb
 NAKED IN DEATH
GLORY IN DEATH
IMMORTAL IN DEATH
RAPTURE IN DEATH
CEREMONY IN DEATH
VENGEANCE IN DEATH
HOLIDAY IN DEATH
CONSPIRACY IN DEATH

SILENT NIGHT
( anthology with Susan Plunkett, Dee Holmes, and Claire
Cross )

For the witty and delightful Christine Dorsey
Yes, Chris, I mean you.

PROLOGUE

image

ETHAN CLIMBED OUT OF his dreams and rolled out of bed. It was still dark, but he habitually started his day before night yielded to dawn. It suited him, the quiet, the simple routine, the hard work that would follow.

He’d never forgotten to be grateful that he’d been able to make this choice and have this life. Though the people responsible for giving him both the choice and the life were dead, for Ethan, the pretty house on the water still echoed with their voices. He would often find himself glancing up from his lone breakfast in the kitchen expecting to see his mother shuffle in, yawning, her red hair a wild tangle from sleep, her eyes half blind with it.

And though she’d been gone nearly seven years, there was a comfort in that homey morning image.

It was more painful to think of the man who had become his father. Raymond Quinn’s death was still too fresh after a mere three months for there to be comfort. And the circumstances surrounding it were both ugly and unexplained. His death had come in a single-car accident in broad daylight on a dry road, on a March day that had only hinted of spring. The car was traveling fast, with its driver unable—or unwilling—to control it on a curve. Tests had proven that there had been no physical reason for Ray to crash into the telephone pole.

But there was evidence of an emotional reason, and that lay heavy on Ethan’s heart.