Hidden Nature

Nora Roberts is a prolific and popular American author. Her books range from romance and fantasy to suspense and thriller, and consistently rank on bestseller lists. As of 2025, she has published over 240 novels of contemporary romance, women’s fiction, paranormal romance, and fantasy under the pen name Nora Roberts, as well as a best-selling futuristic mystery series published under the pen name J.D. Robb. Collectively, Roberts’s books have been translated into over two dozen languages, and there are more than 500 million copies of her books in print. Roberts was the first writer to be inducted into the Romance Hall of Fame hosted by the Romance Writers of America. She established the Nora Roberts Foundation, which supports literacy, the arts, and humanitarian efforts worldwide.

Roberts’s books, while they share stylistic and thematic similarities, cover a range of genres. She began writing contemporary romance with the release of her debut, Irish Thoroughbred, in 1981, and later branched into romantic suspense with novels like The Villa (2001) as well as into paranormal romance with books like the Key trilogy (2001-03). Roberts’s books preceding Hidden Nature include Inheritance (2023), a paranormal thriller about a woman confronting the secrets of her family’s past, and its time-travel sequel,