02860cam a2200541 i 4500 2445332478 TxAuBib 20250715120000.0 250303s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250370853 125037085X TxAuBib rda Roberts, Nora, author. Hidden Nature / Nora Roberts. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025. 435 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the Western Maryland mountains. Driving back, she pulled in at a convenience store--and walked right into a robbery in progress. One gunshot from a jittery thief was about to change her world. After being shocked back to life on the operating table, she has a long recovery ahead, so she moves back to her parents' peaceful house in Heron's Rest. As for the boyfriend who dumped her via text while she was in the hospital, good riddance. She may be down, but she's not out. So when a woman vanishes, leaving her car behind in a supermarket parking lot, Sloan searches online for similar cases. She finds them, spread across three states. Men and women, old and young--the missing seem to have nothing in common. And the abductions keep happening. Luckily, the new man in her life shares her passion for solving this mystery. But it will take every ounce of endurance to get to the dark heart of this bizarre case--and she's willing to risk her life again if that's what it takes to stop the horror"-- Provided by publisher. 20250715. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Missing persons Investigation Fiction. Women detectives Fiction. Serial murder investigation Fiction. Small cities Fiction. Police Wounds and injuries Fiction. Abduction Fiction. Homecoming Fiction. Man-woman relationships. fast Missing persons fast Investigation. Missing persons. fast Women detectives. fast Serial murder investigation. fast Small cities. fast Police. fast Wounds and injuries. fast Abduction. fast Homecoming. fast Maryland Fiction. Maryland. fast Detective and mystery fiction. fast Novels. fast Fiction. fast Detective and mystery fiction. fast Novels. fast