Sanctuary

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Summary: Enticing, frightening, stunning!
Review: This is my second Nora Roberts. I must read more! In Sanctuary, she brings a sick killer who photographs his dead, naked "subjects" and sends one to a famous photographer, Jo Ellen Hathaway, who has a mental collapse and then returns to her family home, Sanctuary, which has been partially rented out to guests on their island off the coast of Savannah, GA. The family tension is shown in excellent detail -- nobody trusting anyone in the family or outside because their mother mysteriously disappeared 20 years earlier, and they believed she deserted them.

Add to the mix a man, Nathan Delaney, who desires the cold, closed-off Jo, a relationship between Joe's sister, Alexa, and a lifetime love,Giff, and a push-pull relationship between their brother, Brian, and an island doctor, Kirby Fitzsimmons. Each of these explosive couplings bring entertainment and romance to the book as the reader learns about each character and their flaws, as well as what they all have to learn about love and loss. Of course, there's a fourth "relationship," between Jo and a killer who stalks her, from Charlotte, NC, to Sanctuary.

As usual, Roberts' title befits the story -- the house is called Sanctuary, and it is to find sanctuary that Jo returns home. All the characters, in their own ways, find sanctuary in the house of their childhood. They must have courage to learn the terrible secret Nathan must bring them, which is tied to their past, to the killings befalling the island, and to the killer who has come to live among them. Chilling!

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Summary: Ready For The Tv Movie
Review: When I heard that Nora Roberts novel Sanctuary was being made into a movie, I realized that, for some unknown reason, I had missed reading this book. So, of course, I had to find the book and read it before the movie came out. Now I'm looking forward to the movie, which airs February 28th. In Sanctuary, Jo Ellen Hathaway, a famous photographer, starts getting pictures in the mail of herself and one of her mother, who the family always believed left them over 20 years ago. Jo Ellen goes home to Sanctuary where she meets up with Nathan Delaney, a childhood friend, who has also come back, to eventually tell the Hathaway family that he believes their mother didn't leave them, but was murdered. Jo Ellen is still being stalked while on the island, what she doesn't realize is the stalker is out to kill her also. Sanctuary was a good suspense novel, although it didn't leave much guess as to who the killer was. I did enjoy seeing the family overcome their bitterness toward each other, and see them all find love. Hope the movie is as good as the book!