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[ItsRoarkalicious]

"Black Hills" is the working title for Nora's 2009 hard cover release. I saw this over in Adwoff's stupid questions thread at http://adwoff.com/me.......=1&fpart=14

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Re: SQ XXV for Nora #645988 - 4/16/08 08:17 AM

Black Hills is the '09 hardcover. I'm not entirely sure what it's about at this point. <g> Set in--shockingly!--The Black Hills of SD. Childhood friends, young lovers, parted ways, reunited. He's a former cop, former PI, come back to help his grandparents with their horse farm/business. She's now a wildlife biologist who's built an animal refuge.

And there's a very bad guy in the hills.

Nora
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I'm intrigued by the location in the Black Hills of South Dakota... sounds interesting. Plus, I tend to really like Nora's brainy heroines (i.e. Tate in The Reef, Callie in Birthright, Dana in Key of Knowledge, Jude in Jewels of the Sun), so I'm really looking forward to this one!

[Joe]

I like the scientists as well Jen, and I also like the male cops. Plus, the Black Hills are a gorgeous setting. I'm excited!

[sweee81]

"Black Hills" is the working title for Nora's 2009 hard cover release. I saw this over in Adwoff's stupid questions thread at http://adwoff.com/me.......=1&fpart=14

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Re: SQ XXV for Nora #645988 - 4/16/08 08:17 AM

Black Hills is the '09 hardcover. I'm not entirely sure what it's about at this point. <g> Set in--shockingly!--The Black Hills of SD. Childhood friends, young lovers, parted ways, reunited. He's a former cop, former PI, come back to help his grandparents with their horse farm/business. She's now a wildlife biologist who's built an animal refuge.

And there's a very bad guy in the hills.

Nora
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I'm intrigued by the location in the Black Hills of South Dakota... sounds interesting. Plus, I tend to really like Nora's brainy heroines (i.e. Tate in The Reef, Callie in Birthright, Dana in Key of Knowledge, Jude in Jewels of the Sun), so I'm really looking forward to this one!

I am as well intrigued by the location. I've always liked cowboy territory, and Joe, you have said exactly what I would have and doesn't she really do her heronines well? I agree with all the ones you mentioned. They are my favourites. I'm really looking forward to this one.
Debbie

[ItsRoarkalicious]

I've always liked cowboy territory

Me too. And an ex-cop-turned-cowboy... you can't go wrong with that combination! Definitely a lot sexier than a bowling alley owner... (sorry Caleb! (Blood Brothers).

[ruth]

Aaarrrggghhhh!!!! I'm having enough trouble trying to keep up with everything coming out in 2008 - to say nothing of everthing coming out in '09. One more book to keep track of but then I am obsessed like everybody else here so I shouldn't complain.

[IDFAN]

The premise is intriguing and the characters sound interesting. But then, it's Nora, so I'm not exactly surprised.

[nicola]

Isn't there a song about the Black Hills of Dakota!

Sorry I'm digressing, I love the sound of this book. I really like cowboys, especially ex-cop cowboys, so can't wait. I'm fast losing track of what's out when though, doesn't take much these days.

[DLC]

Oooh, sounds interesting, and sounds like it will be good. But then again I like most of Nora's single titles.

Question...lots of people seem to have a harder time keeping track of new releases, so is it possible to have a pinned thread in "Other Nora Books" and list all the releases for 2008, 2009, etc, and have a mod update it when a new book comes out? Just a reference list to track when the books are coming out.

Might make it easier for those members who read all of Nora's work.

Just a thought.

[roemel]

Oooh, sounds interesting, and sounds like it will be good. But then again I like most of Nora's single titles.

Question...lots of people seem to have a harder time keeping track of new releases, so is it possible to have a pinned thread in "Other Nora Books" and list all the releases for 2008, 2009, etc, and have a mod update it when a new book comes out? Just a reference list to track when the books are coming out.

Might make it easier for those members who read all of Nora's work.

Just a thought.

Well, we usually pin the topic of the new book in "Other Nora Books" so I don't really see the need of an extra topic for this...


I like the sound of this book, definitely looking forward to it!

[judykentrus]

I like the storyline and I'll be able to judge for myself what the The Black Hills of South Dakota look like because I will be traveling there in about two weeks. I sometimes wonder how Nora determines the local of her stories. No matter what, she always manages to put the right characters in the right settings.

[Irishmegs88]

Didn't she already do a book like this. Except the daughter was like a Hollywood baby that ended up working with nature and no where near Hollywood?

[ruth]

Couldn't prove it by me because I haven't read enough Nora to know - although it is weird (to me) now that you mention it because it sounds like something I read some time ago. It probably wasn't Nora however - just a similar idea done differently.

[Joe]

The book you're thinking of is River's End, Meg, and the only similarity I see is that the Heroines are both in the biology field.

Noah wasn't a cop or a PI, he was a reporter and Author. His father was the cop. Neither were Noah and Olivia childhood loves. They were connected in their childhood, but they were never close until he looked her up, briefly, while she was in college. The plot doesn't sound at all similar, I'm not sure where you see similarities, other than, like I said, the Biology thing.

[maiden87]

Ooooh ex-cop turned cowboy. Yum!
This does actually sound really good. I can imagine the development of childhood friends to young lovers and then I assume something goes on to make them part ways. Maybe there'll be some 'issues' or some such thing between them when they move back but then they bond again whilst one or both of them is trying to be killed.
Sounds like a good read.
Has a month been set for its release or is it just 2009?

[ItsRoarkalicious]

I believe Nora's hardcovers are all summer releases now, so it'll probably be June/July 09 for this one.

[maiden87]

So it'll be nearly 2010 before the small paperback comes out.
Looks like I'll be relying on Mum to buy it when it comes out

[Joe]

It'll probably be well into 2009 for the PB Maiden. The Nora Roberts PB's (reprinted from the HC) are released about a year after the Hardcover (High Noon is being released in PB in May...nearly a full year after the HC). The ID PB's are on a firm six month schedule because Nora insisted on it when the books went to Hard Cover, in order to be sure that ID fans still got their "fix" every six months, firmly. But the regular Nora releases aren't on any sort of publishing deadline like that one. Unfortunately.

[nicola]

It may not be as bad for us Maiden, Amazon UK has the hardcover of the Hollow out on the 24th April and the paperback out on the 6th May and in my experience this has always been the way over here.

So hopefully we wouldn't have to wait too long for the paperback of Black Hills, I don't know why Nora books come out so quickly in paperback here I'm sure it's not the same for other Authors.

[Aghra]

I don't know how I feel about the cowboy theme, but I do like the ex-cop angle, that's always interesting in Nora's books.

Didn't she already do a book like this. Except the daughter was like a Hollywood baby that ended up working with nature and no where near Hollywood?

I think you're referring to A Will and A Way? The heroine/female protagonist is a Hollywood baby as her parents were regarded as Hollywood royalty.

[Niftybergin]

Childhood friends, young lovers, parted ways, reunited.

I'm a huge fan of this device. Some of my favorite books (from Nora or others) feature childhood friends and young lovers who parted ways and were later reunited. There's something about that whole "growing up together" thing that appeals to me.