

Nora and her husband, Bruce Wilder, watched it in horror-they own the Boone Hotel and had been renovating it as part of their commitment to the preservation and charm of the village’s rich history (the town was founded in 1792 by cousins of Daniel Boone). Three years after Nora Roberts wrote-in Blue Smoke-of a fictional fire, life imitated art: the treasured eighteenth-century landmark inn, the Boone Hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland, was gutted by fire.


And changed everything in one magnificent instant.” Like some preternatural beast clawing its way from the womb, burst to life with a cackle that rose to a roar. Novelist Nora Roberts celebrates another kind of love: for family, for community and for grandchildren.
