Black Hills

by Nora Roberts

'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman'
The Guardian

'Nora Roberts is, quite simply, a one-woman phenomenon'
Heat

'I love Nora Roberts'
Stephen King

Cooper Sullivan and Lil Chance were unlikely childhood friends - thrown together each summer when Coop visited his grandparents' South Dakota ranch. But with every year, their friendship deepened from innocent games to stolen kisses and the promise of something special... until fate, and a terrible tragedy, pulled them apart.

Twelve years later Coop - now a private investigator in New York - returns to the ranch to care for his grandparents. Though the memory of Coop's touch still haunts her, Lil has let nothing stop her dream of opening a Wildlife Refuge on her family's land. But someone else has been keeping a close watch on Lil Chance, and Coop's return has unleashed more than just old passions. There's a hunter lurking out in the Black Hills, and Lil and Coop have been singled out as prey...

• ISBN10: 0748111913
• ISBN13: 9780748111916
• Publish Date: 2 July 2009 (first published 23 June 2009)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Piatkus Books
• Edition: Digital original
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 480
• Language: English

Reviews

[ibeforem]

This was alright, but not the best Nora Roberts I’ve read. Lil holds on to her broken heart a little too long to be truly likable. I wanted to tell her to just suck it up and get on with things, either forgive Coop or get off the pot. So to speak. The setting is good, and as always, Roberts does a great job of making a place come alive. I also liked the concept of the animal sanctuary. It’s nice to have a character with a job that’s a little out of the norm. We read about so many cops, investigators, lawyers, journalists, and ranchers. The formula here is a little different — we find out "whodunit" quite early on in the story — and I’m not sure how I feel about that. The bad guy’s reasons for doing what he’s doing seem a little forced, and I’m not sure it all holds together in the end. Still, Roberts manages to give us at least a few characters we care about, and an interesting climax.

[Eve1972]

Never having read a Nora Roberts book before, I wasn't sure what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised, fast read, great characters, romance, suspense, just an all around good read. :)

[wyvernfriend]

Lil Chance fell in love with Cooper Sullivan when he first came to her small town in South Dakota. His parents were making gestures at saving their marriage, he was being packed off to his mother's parents. They fall in love over the years and then, suddenly, he stops coming back.

Lil is gutted but moves on, and twelve years later he returns. Both of them have changed and matured, but can she forgive him. To add to their complications, there's a serial killer out there and he appears to have Lil in his sights.

Full of twists and turns and I really did enjoy this one. You can see her passion for the sanctuary and while he's a bit of an Alpha, she regularly gives as good as she gets. I love the sequences involving the naughty lingerie that she had bought for another man and her debate about discarding them. The relationship between Farley and Tansy is almost more fun than the actual central relationship and the relationship between Farley and Lil's parents is also quite well drawn and believable.