Carolina Moon (P)

Literary awards - RITA Award by Romance Writers of America for Best Romantic Suspense (2001).

Carolina Moon (P) - A haunting past. A deadly secret. A second chance at love.

Tory Bodeen never forgot the night her best friend Hope was brutally murdered. Growing up in a house filled with violence, Tory found light only in Hope’s friendship—until it was stolen away. Now, years later, she’s returned to her South Carolina hometown to rebuild her life and open her own shop.

As she reconnects with Cade Lavelle—Hope’s brother—the pain of the past resurfaces, along with buried emotions and dangerous truths. But someone is watching. Someone who knows what really happened that night. And they aren’t finished yet.

A gripping romantic suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.

Keywords: Nora Roberts romantic suspense, small-town mystery, childhood trauma, murder mystery, second chance romance, Southern gothic, psychological thriller, women sleuths