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''If you''re after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she''s your woman''
The Guardian

''Nora Roberts is, quite simply, a one-woman phenomenon''
Heat

''I love Nora Roberts''
Stephen King

When the shots rang out in the shopping mall, Simone Knox knew what to do. Shelter in place. That''s what they taught you to do in the event of a mass shooting. So on that terrible, hot summer day in 2005, Simone was lucky. She escaped death. But she would never be the same again.

More than ten years later, Simone still struggles with grief, trauma and the misplaced guilt of a survivor. She spends much of her time alone on Tranquility Island - a quiet, artistic community off the coast of Maine. But she is transforming - shaping herself the way she shapes her extraordinary and highly prized sculptures. As she heals herself, she opens up to Reed Quartermaine, who survived the shooting himself and has

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Shelter in Place

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 2 May 2019
      ISBN-13 9780349417813
      978-0349417813
      ISBN-10 0349417814
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Nora Roberts

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''If you''re after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she''s your woman''
      The Guardian

      ''Nora Roberts is, quite simply, a one-woman phenomenon''
      Heat

      ''I love Nora Roberts''
      Stephen King

      When the shots rang out in the shopping mall, Simone Knox knew what to do. Shelter in place. That''s what they taught you to do in the event of a mass shooting. So on that terrible, hot summer day in 2005, Simone was lucky. She escaped death. But she would never be the same again.

      More than ten years later, Simone still struggles with grief, trauma and the misplaced guilt of a survivor. She spends much of her time alone on Tranquility Island - a quiet, artistic community off the coast of Maine. But she is transforming - shaping herself the way she shapes her extraordinary and highly prized sculptures. As she heals herself, she opens up to Reed Quartermaine, who survived the shooting himself and has

      Trade Review
      the most popular novelist on Planet Earth - Washington Post

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