By choice and necessity, she has maintained herself isolated and is easily confused by everyday interactions and emotions. Abigail is socially inadequate, with the awkward personality of someone who is brilliant and logical but concrete in her way of thinking. The romance between Brooks and Abigail is wonderful. So while the romance builds, the tension oozing from Abigail's character, her paranoia and fear, all serve to keep the reader on edge. The reader doesn't know what is going to happen or if that part of Abigail/Elizabeth's life is going to come roaring back into her life at any minute.

At this point the story shifts into more of a contemporary romance, but in the background it maintains that thrum of suspense from the first section of the book. Twelve years later in a small tourist town in the Osarks, the newest resident loner and local curiosity Abigail Lowery meets the town's police chief Brooks Gleason. I was sitting at the edge of my sit, holding my breath, wondering what and how, events were going to unfold. This first section of the story entitled Elizabeth is gripping, fast paced, and action packed. At age sixteen, witnessing two murders committed by the Russian Mafia and the events that follow change her life forever. Roberts front loads the story with the tense and suspenseful story of a teenage Elizabeth Fitch whose one moment of rebellion against her cold and controlling mother ends in blood and tragedy. The Witness is a stand alone romance suspense novel with all the ingredients that make this genre work. Roberts has done it with style by coming up with a winner! That's a great achievement, however, the best aspect of this celebration is that Ms. The Witness by Nora Roberts is her 200th novel. He suspects that Abigail needs protection from something-and that her elaborate defenses hide a story that must be revealed. Her logical mind, her secretive nature, and her unromantic viewpoints leave him fascinated but frustrated.

But Abigail's reserve only intrigues police chief Brooks Gleason. She keeps to herself, saying little, revealing nothing. A freelance programmer, she designs sophisticated security systems-and supplements her own security with a fierce dog and an assortment of firearms. Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. The events that followed changed her life forever. Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally lets loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive.

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