Nightwork: A Novel

Nora Roberts

May 2022 · Sold by St. Martin's Press

About this ebook

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces an unforgettable thief in an unputdownable new novel...

Greed. Desire. Obsession. Revenge . . . It’s all in a night’s work.

Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother’s head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago—but kept up his nightwork, developing into a master thief with a code of honor and an expertise in not attracting attention—or getting attached.

Until he meets Miranda Emerson, and the powerful bond between them upends all his rules. But along the way, Booth has made some dangerous associations, including the ruthless Carter LaPorte, who sees Booth as a tool he controls for his own profit. Knowing LaPorte will leverage any personal connection, Booth abandons Miranda for her own safety—cruelly, with no explanation—and disappears.

But the bond between Miranda and Booth is too strong, pulling them inexorably back together. Now Booth must face LaPorte, to truly free himself and Miranda once and for all.

Ratings and reviews

Nightwork is a stand-alone novel by best-selling American author, Nora Roberts. By the time his mother dies after a third bout of cancer, eighteen-year-old Harrison Silas Booth has already been a thief for nine years. Even though his aunt Mags has been rock-solid in her support, past due notices fill the mailbox, adding stress when Dana Booth least needed it. Harry is essentially self-taught, advancing from pick-pocketing to what he terms “nightwork”: burglaries of luxury goods from rich homes. He contributes, surreptitiously, to the bills with his aunt’s tacit approval. And, nightwork gives him a thrill. When Dana dies, Mags and Harry quit Chicago and go their separate ways, vowing to keep in touch. Harry winds his leisurely way, as Silas Booth, to New Orleans, learning, always learning, discovering new things, making good friends and continuing to pay his way with a little nightwork. When a fence put him in touch with an accomplished thief, he ends up stealing a Turner sunset. The client insists on meeting him, but Silas is wary of the offer this privileged but greedy man makes. He spends some time furthering his education in Texas before enrolling at a college that took his eye in North Carolina, at UNC, as Booth Harrison. His usual trick of staying under the radar comes apart when he falls in love with his professor’s beautiful daughter, Miranda. Could he actually have a normal life? It seems not. Carter LaPorte, that client from New Orleans is on his doorstep, insisting he take a statue from a museum in Baltimore. Refusal is not an option: this man is used to getting his own way, and Booth can’t risk the overt threat of injury, even death to those he loves. He breaks a heart, steals a statue, and vows to maintain his distance thereafter. Thanks to his love of acting and theatre, Booth is by now expert at switching identities, and escapes the country to avoid LaPorte’s further demands: he will not be owned. But he doubts this man will ever tire of his pursuit, and begins to long for a more settled existence: a job as an English/drama teacher in a mid-size town would fit the bill. And does, until someone who knows him arrives… Roberts really is an accomplished story-teller, making this very readable, with characters who endear themselves to the reader and repay the investment of time and emotion. And this story has everything a reader could want: food, theatre, theft, love and romance, and a clever sting to turn the tables on a ruthless collector. Enjoyable, entertaining and hard to put down. This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK

Love reading her books. They are all really good and keep you involved in the story the whole time you are reading them. I have read alot of her books.

This is the first book I have ever read by Nora Robberts. I could not put it down. I will definitely be reading more of her novels

About the author

NORA ROBERTS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 230 novels, including Legacy, The Awakening, Hideaway, Under Currents, The Chronicles of The One trilogy, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J. D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.