Stars: 4 / 5
Recommendation: A soul-stirring story involving love, romance, family secret and the ability to be good. It’s a good story of a young woman who find her true family legacy.
Missing in Death is the seventh novella in the long running In Death Series by J. D. Robb, the alter ego of the famous American romance novelist Nora Roberts. This was originally published in The Lost anthology book in November of 2009 in which Nora published her novella with two of her recurring authors and we see a new author too – Patricia Gaffney, Mary Blayney and Ruth Ryan Langan. This was subsequently released along with other in death novellas as anthology books several times. We continue to pursue Lieutenant Eve Dallas juggling her role as a Homicide Lieutenant and also being a wife to the Irish Billionaire Roarke
The fourth and final novella is by Ruth Ryan Langan titled Legacy. In this anthology book we see that Robb’s regular anthology author Mary Kay McComas is clearly absent and missing for the book. No writeup was given why she is missing in the book. I wonder what happened although she is a good friend of Nora Roberts.
The plot revolves around a young woman, who struggles to learn her true legacy vs what she believed all her life. In the process she travels to Ireland after burying her mom, find the family secret and also love that was unexpected.
Ruth Ryan Langan bases her hero, Ross Delaney, very close to J.D. Robb’s Roarke. It’s hard not to compare both of them and makes me wonder. She even brought out the Irish in him that we see in Roarke.
This is a very short story and I wish Ruth makes it a book in itself. I am sure there is much she wants to add. Loved it very much. There is love, romance, family secret and the ability to be good. I don’t see anyone being a villain, even the supporting characters are inherently good.
A soul-stirring story involving love, romance, family secret and the ability to be good. It’s a good story of a young woman who find her true family legacy.
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