The Reef
by Nora Roberts
Berkley Trade
Contemporary Romance, Contemporary Romance: Romantic Suspense
September 1, 2009
ISBN-10: 0425231844
ISBN-13: 9780425231845
Available in: Trade Size (reprint)
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The Reef
by Nora Roberts
Marine archaeologist Tate Beaumont has a passion for treasure hunting—one that she shares with her father. Over the years they have had many fabulous finds, but one treasure has eluded them: Angelique's Curse—a jeweled amulet heavy with history, dark with legend, and tainted with blood. It becomes bitterly clear that if the Beaumonts want to find Angelique's Curse, they can't do it alone, so they form a partnership with salvagers Buck and Matthew Lassiter.
Tate is infuriated...and unsettled, not only by the prospect of having to share this precious dream, but also by Matthew Lassiter. A sea-scarred diver whose past is shrouded in mystery and whose determination to uncover the ocean's secrets rivals Tate's, he has an agenda as murky as his past.
Forced to work—and dive—with the Lassiters, Tate grows more and more uneasy, as the transparent waters of the Caribbean thicken and darken with shadowy deceptions and hidden threats. The Beaumonts and the Lassiters know that pooling their assets and experience is the key to locating Angelique's Curse. But there are some things Matthew refuses to share—including the truth about his father's suspicious death several years earlier. For now, Tae and Matthew are reluctant partners—until danger, and desire, begin to rise to the surface...
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Nora Roberts' Bio
Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring Maryland, the youngest of five children. After a school career that included some time in Catholic school and the disciplines of nuns, she married young and settled in Keedysville, Maryland. She worked briefly as a legal secretary. "I could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever," she says now. After her sons were born she stayed home and tried every craft that came along. A blizzard in February 1979 forced her hand to try another creative outlet. She was snowed in with a three and six year old with no kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling supply of chocolate. Born into a family of readers, Nora had never known a time that she wasn't reading or making up stories. During the now famous blizzard, she pulled out a pencil and notebook and began to write down one of those stories. It was there that a career was born. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981. Nora met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Since that time, they've expanded their home, traveled the world and opened a bookstore together. Through the years, Nora has always been surrounded by men. Not only was she the youngest in her family, but she was also the only girl. She has raised two sons. Having spent her life surrounded by men has given Ms. Roberts a fairly good view of the workings of the male mind, which is a constant delight to her readers. It was, she's been quoted as saying, a choice between figuring men out or running away screaming. Nora is a member of several writers groups and has won countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry. Recently The New Yorker called her “America’s favorite novelist.”