ORDINE DI LETTURA per la serie NIGHT TALES di NORA ROBERTS

READING ORDER for the NIGHT TALES series by NORA ROBERTS

di elisarolle

1) Night Shift - L'amica della notte: Ogni notte uno sconosciuto chiama Cilla durante il suo programma radiofonico, dicendo di volerla morta. All'inizio lei non dà troppo peso alle minacce, ma con il passare del tempo quel la voce impregnata d'odio le mette paura. Non le rimane che rivolgersi alla polizia e il tenente Boyd Fletcher...

IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT- The calls came like clockwork- a cold hate-filled voice telling late-night radio announcer Cilla O'Roarke that she going to die. The never-ending threats had finally made her a believer. She was desperate-desperate enough to accept police protection. Cilla prefered to keep her distance from the police, and she had her reasons. But there was something about Boyd Fletcher that made him difficult to ignore. He was strong, laconic, infuriating and clearly determined to watch over her every second of the day-and night. And the trouble was, the more Cilla saw of her unwanted bodygaurd, the more she wanted him to share the night she loved...

2) Night Shadows - Occhi nelle tenebre: Gage faceva il poliziotto. La lotta al crimine era il suo principale obiettivo fino a quando un terribile incidente gli aveva cambiato all'improvviso la vita. Da allora lui vive di notte e di quello spiacevole episodio gli sono rimasti solo i ricordi ed alcuni strani ed inspiegabili poteri. Non ha smesso di far rispettare le regole, ma vuole giustizia e la ottiene a modo suo. Deborah O'Roarke, procuratore distrettuale, non è d'accordo, lei non ama i giustizieri o, forse, non ancora...

Deborah O'Roarke (sister to Cilla O'Roarke from Night Shift) is an assistant district attorney in Urbana (very similar to New York City by all indications and descriptions). Deb interviews a witness to a drive-by shooting in a bad part of town and on her way to her car, she is grabbed and drug into an alley. Before she's accosted, a masked hero intervenes. Nemesis as he's known, thwarts the attack and then lectures Deb on being more careful. The reprimand doesn't go over well but Nemesis has definitely made an impression. Then Deb meets a multi-millionaire at a social gathering and is smitten. She begins to feel something toward Gage Guthrie, the handsome, hulky, millionaire, but since Nemesis keeps turning up to save her, she also has feelings for him. The confusion isn't helped any when Deb keeps finding herself in danger while investigating a case and Nemesis always comes to the rescue. She's torn between the two - Gage and Nemesis - and very confused. When she learns that Nemesis is really Gage, she's angry for being deceived yet relieved that she's really in love with only one man and not two.

3) Nightshade - Il pilota innamorato: Quando Liz, giovane figlia di due suoi cari amici, scompare in circostanze misteriose, Colt accetta l'incarico di ritrovarla. Nessuno potrebbe riuscirci meglio di lui: come investigatore privato con la passione del volo è abituato alle missioni pericolose. Certo non immagina che questa volta il pericolo maggiore sarà rappresentato dal compagno che la polizia gli affianca per aiutarlo nelle indagini: la rossa Althea, una minaccia per il suo cuore...

Boyd Fletcher's partner Althea Grayson meets her match in private investigator Colt "Nightshade". TROUBLE IS HIS BUSINESS Colt Nightshade: Professional trouble-shooter. A damm good man to know-if you know he's on your side. Althea Grayson: That's LIEUTENANT Althea Grayson a hell of a cop, and heavon in his arms... Colt Nightshade made his living facing danger-alone. But his search for a runaway girl through the seamy side of the city was the one time he had to have help-whether he liked it or not. And if a man had to have a partner, he could do a whole lot worse than Althea Grayson. She was all business...and embodied his every pleasure. Soon, trouble became a for-letter word called LOVE.

4) Night Smoke - Tenera è la notte: Natalie è una donna forte, abile nel suo lavoro: gestire una catena di agenzie di lingerie non è semplice, ci vuole pratica, tenacia e nervi saldi... ma qualcuno mira alla sua tranquillità.. Chi è il responsabile degli incidenti alle industrie? E' necessario l'aiuto di un esperto, di uno come l'investigatore Ryan Piasecki... con lui la paura del fuoco scompare e la notte diventa più tenera...

Boyd's sister, Natalie Fletcher, is a businesswoman on the verge of opening up a new flagship store when a string of fires threatens to put a stop to her plans. She has to work with arson investigator Ryan Piasecki to catch the "torch" and meanwhile, the two create some heat of their own. RYAN PIASECKI: A man's man. A woman's fantasy. The kind of guy who got the job done, no matter what the obstacles.. or how beatiful they were. NATALIE FLETCHER: Cool, calm, collected. Until someone started making trouble for her business... and HE showed up. Arson investigator Ryan Piasecki came from the street, and he wasn't the type to make nice with an upper-crust business executive like Natalie Fletcher. His business was fires-and his instincts told him the one at Fletcher Industries was no accident. They told him something else, too-that the sparks flying between him and this very classy lady had all the makings of a five-alarm blaze....

5) Night Shield - Il falco della notte: A Jonah non piacciono i poliziotti, ma quando il suo night, il Falco della notte, viene preso di mira da una gang di criminali, decide di rivolgersi all'unico tutore dell'ordine di cui si fidi, Boyd Fletcher. E, per rispetto nei confronti del vecchio amico, accetta che si occupi del caso la figlia di Boyd, Ally, l'agente di polizia più affascinante con cui abbia mai avuto a che fare. Quando Ally, una notte, viene coinvolta in una sparatoria...

Successful businessman Jonah Blackhawk owns a string of popular nightclubs. He knows that he wouldn't have survived his childhood spent on city streets without the intervention of Boyd Fletcher, the cop who refused to give up on him. When Boyd asks for Jonah's help in solving a series of high-ticket burglaries, Jonah can't refuse. What Jonah isn't prepared for is the detective assigned to the case. Strong-willed, blond, and beautiful, Detective Allison Fletcher is Boyd's daughter--she's also the woman who just might shatter Jonah's determination to remain heart-whole and single. Undercover at the nightclub, Allison works closely with Jonah and it isn't long before the chemistry between them explodes. Given his past and the fact that she is Boyd's daughter, Jonah is convinced that he should leave her alone. But Allison has other plans--ones that propinquity and mutual passion are likely to bring to fruition if she and Jonah can only stay alive.