Nora Roberts #14: From This Day

B.J. was manager of an inn. She had worked there since she was old enough to work and she is now 24. She loves the inn because of it's "down to earth, comfortable" manner. It is a simple little place where one would go year after year til they grow old. She also lives there. Taylor is a big shot hotel buyer and has just bought the inn and wants to do all kinds of work to fix the place up to be a "grand" hotel. He instanly falls in love with B.J., but being that she is still young and knows nothing of love she doesn't want him. She hates him because she thinks that he is intruding on her life. They clash a lot in this book over the hotel, (as expected though, being that the place means so much to her.) I did find that B.J. was not that mature and I find it hard to believe that she actually is a manager of that inn. Taylor is demanding and is actually mean to B.J. Especially when Darla comes to the inn. Darla is Taylors decorator. She causes nothing but trouble for B.J. and Taylor. Anyway, this is a really SHORT book, so if you don't like it then really no harm done because it shouldn't of taken that long to read, but I LIKED this book a lot and would highly recommend it.

I like other readers discovered Nora Robert books, I have collected just about everything she has published with various publishing houses. I don't buy her JDRobb books. But I do suspect sometimes Authors give their authorization to different publishing houses, change the jacket and intro to books already published and read by many of Nora Roberts readers. Am I nuts. I still enjoy some of her new stuff however. But I have to admit, I really try to outline what of her I read so I don't run into a repeat. This comment is just for thought. Thanks.

For many years I heard the name Nora Roberts touted on romance boards but never read any of her books. Then for some reason I began collecting them and one winter's weekend picked up Born in Fire and the rest is history. Now having read over 60 of Nora's romance and romantic suspense books, I find myself picking up one of them when I'm not quite sure what to read. I also know that they provide me with a good comfort read and something which will make me smile at the end. And as I tried to find a book that interested me after Thanksgiving weekend, I chose to read From This Day hoping it was the sure thing. And as always a Nora Roberts book came to my reading rescue. The age old story of girl and boy, in this case a man and woman meet when a young woman is the manager of an old inn which has just been acquired by the man. While they spar with one another neither of them can complain that they aren't physically attracted to one another. And then as time goes on the man wears the woman down to spend more time with him while the woman weaves a spell of love and as promised in a romance novel, there is a wonderful happily ever after ending. I did enjoy this early romance novel by Nora Roberts published as part of the Language of Love series during the 1980s. If you can find this title I suggest you read it and see how the queen of romances can enrapture you with her stories from the first page as she does to me time and again.

Choosing a new jam for her homemade muffins was as progressive as B.J. Clark got. As manager of a small old-fashioned inn, she refused to let new owner Taylor Reynolds modernize the place! She'd just have to show this jet setter how true love and a tender touch made things cozier.