The Awakening

Nora Roberts is a #1 New York Times bestselling romance author whom The New Yorker calls “America’s favorite novelist” (Roberts, Nora. “Nora’s Bio.” Noraroberts.com). As her website states, she was born in Maryland, the youngest of five children, and always enjoyed books and inventing stories. One winter, as a young mother trapped in her house by a blizzard, Roberts began writing a novel. Her first book appeared in 1981 with a new romance publisher named Silhouette. By 2023, she had published over 230 novels of contemporary romance, women’s fiction, paranormal romance, and fantasy under the pen name Nora Roberts, as well as a bestselling futuristic mystery series published under the pen name J. D. Robb.

Roberts has won several awards from the Romance Writers of America and was the first writer inducted into their Romance Hall of Fame. Her books have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and have spent hundreds of weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and several have been adapted into feature films. She has established and supports the Nora Roberts Foundation, a charity that supports literacy, the arts, and humanitarian efforts. Roberts’s publicity team runs the Internet site Fall Into The Story (fallintothestory.