Hidden Nature

Lisa Harvey
May 3
2 min read

By Nora Roberts

A HIGHLY ENJOYABLE READ WITH A STRONG WOMAN FILLED WITH COURAGE AND DETERMINATION

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SUMMARY

Sloan Cooper, an intense and driven Maine NPR officer, walks in on a convenience store robbery in progress and is shot point-blank in the chest. Twice, she had to be revived on the operating table. She is fortunate. She survives the difficult surgery but still faces months of recovery ahead. She is compelled to move back in with her parents in a small Maine town in the western Allegheny Mountains.

Sloan Sloan has always been very close to her parents, Elsie and Dean, as well as her younger sister, Drea. The three of them operate an expanding tourist destination called “All the Rest” at Mirror Lake. They would love for Sloan to move home permanently.

As Sloan recuperates, she reads about a woman in a nearby town who vanished from a supermarket parking lot the day before Thanksgiving, leaving her car behind. Missing her job, Sloan can’t help but search the internet for similar cases of missing people in the area and finds several. However, it makes no sense- men and women, young and old, with nothing in common. But Sloan has a funny feeling, and can’t let it go.

REVIEW

Hidden Nature is a highly enjoyable read about a strong woman filled with courage and determination. She is determined to make a complete recovery from the point-blank gunshot and return to her job in eastern Maine, and you can feel her pain in every step she takes. She is also determined to help find the commonality between the missing people and she gets permission from the local police to proceed with her research.

As expected, author Nora Roberts’s writing, pacing, and tone are expertly delivered. Hidden Nature has a well-developed and intriguing cast of characters. The first sentence will lure you in and never let you go.

Thanks to Netgalley for an advance reading copy of this book. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Publisher St. Martin’s Press

Published May 27, 2025

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