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Biography

Roberts was born the only daughter and the youngest of five children in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her education included some time at a Catholic school before she married and settled in Keedysville, Maryland. For a while she worked as a legal secretary but stayed at home after the birth of her two sons.

She began writing during a blizzard in February 1979, and her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, appeared in 1981, published by Silhouette. She met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985.

Under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, Roberts also writes the “In Death” series of futuristic science fiction police procedurals. They feature NYPSD Detective Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke and are set in a mid-21st century New York City. The initials “J.D.” were taken from her sons, Jason and Dan, while “Robb” is a shortened form of Roberts.

Roberts is famously prolific—in 1996 she passed the hundred-novel mark with Montana Sky. Since 1999, every one of Roberts’s novels has been a New York Times bestseller. 124 of her novels have ranked on the New York Times bestseller list, including twenty-nine that debuted in the number one spot. Her books have ranked in the number one position on the NYT Bestseller list for a combined 90 weeks.  Roberts writes eight hours a day, every day, and even works on vacation.

Many readers and scholars of romance fiction attribute the transformation of the romance heroine into a strong female figure in part to Roberts’ ability to develop characters and to tell a good story.

Roberts does much of her research over the internet, as she has an aversion to flying.

Other romance authors jokingly refer to Roberts as “The Nora”.

Lifetime Television is adapting four Nora Roberts novels into TV movies for release in 2007: Angel’s Fall, Montana Sky, Blue Smoke, Carolina Moon. Her novels Sanctuary, and Magic Moments had previously been made into TV movies.

1. Naked In Death (1995)

2. Glory In Death (1995)

3. Immortal in Death (1996)

4. Rapture In Death (1996)

5. Ceremony In Death (1997)

6. Vengeance In Death (1997)

7. Holiday In Death (1998)

8. Midnight In Death (1998) – Part of Anthology Silent Night

9. Conspiracy In Death (1999)

10 Loyalty In Death (1999)

11 Judgment In Death (2000)

12 Witness In Death (2000)

13 Betrayal In Death (2001)

14 Interlude In Death (2001) -Part of Out of this World

15 Seduction In Death (2001)

16 Reunion In Death (2002)

17 Purity In Death (2002)

18 Portrait In Death (2003)

19 Imitation In Death (2003)

20 Remember When (2003) – written with Nora Roberts

21 Divided In Death (2004)

22 Visions In Death (2004)

23 Survivor In Death (2005)

24 Origins In Death (2005)

25 Haunted In Death (New) (2006) – Novella

26 Memory In Death (New) (2006)

27 Born In Death (New) (2006)

28 Innocent In Death (New)

 In the Garden Trilogy

1. Blue Dahlia

2. Black Rose

3. Red Lily

Stars Of Mithra Series

1. Captive Star
2. Hidden Star
3. Secret Star

Born Trilogy

1. Born In Fire
2. Born In Ice
3. Born In Shame

Sisters Trilogy

1. Dance Upon the Air
2. Heaven and Earth
3. Face the Fire

Chesapeake Bay Saga

1. Sea Swept
2. Rising Tides
3. Inner Harbor
4. Chesapeake Blue

Irish trilogy

1. Jewels of the Sun
2. Tears of the Moon
3. Heart of the Sea

The O’Hurleys

1. The Last Honest Woman — Abby O’ Hurley
2. Dance to the Piper — Maddy O’ Hurley
3. Skin Deep — Chantel O’ Hurley
4. Without A Trace — Trace O’ Hurley

Dream Trilogy

1. Daring to Dream — Margo Sullivan
2. Holding the Dream — Kate Powell
3. Finding the Dream — Laura Templeton

Night Tales

1. Night Shift
2. Night Smoke
3. Night Shield
4. Night Shadow
5. Nightshade

The Macgregors

1. Daniel ~ Ian ( For Now, Forever & In From the Cold )
2. Alan ~ Grant ( All the Possibilities & One Man’s Art )
3. Serena ~ Caine ( Playing the Odds & Tempting Fate )
4. The MacGregor Brides
5. The MacGregor Grooms
6. The Winning Hand
7. The Perfect Neighbor
8. Rebellion ( Historical )

Those Wild Ukraines

1. Taming Natasha
2. Falling For Rachel
3. Luring A Lady
4. Convincing Alex
5. Waiting For Nick
6. Considering Kate

The Donovan Legacy

1. Captivated
2. Entranced
3. Charmed
4. Enchanted

Key Trilogy

1. Key of Light
2. Key of Knowledge
3. Key of Valor

MacKade Brothers

1. The Pride of Jared MacKade
2. The Return of Rafe MacKade
3. The Heart of Devin MacKade
4. The Fall of Shane MacKade

The Circle Trilogy (New)

1. Morrigan’s Cross
2. Dance of Gods
3. Valley of Silence

Irish Hearts

1. Irish Thoroughbred
2. Irish Rebel
3. Irish Rose

Time and Again

1. Time Was
2. Times Changed

Reflections and Dreams

1. Dance of Dreams
2. Reflections

The Gift

1. Home for Christmas
2. All I Want for Christmas

Table for Two

1. Summer Desserts
2. Lessons Learned

Summer Pleasures

1. One Summer
2. Second Nature

A Little Fate

1. A World Apart
2. A Winter Rose

Other Novels

1. Song of the West
2. Sullivan’s Woman
3. Divine Evil
4. The Villa
5. Cordina’s Crown Jewel
6. Homeport
7. Opposites Attract
8. North to the Rail
9. Angels Fall (New!)
10. Northern Lights (New!)
11. Blue Smoke (New!)