Bestselling author Nora Roberts published her combination romance and thriller novel High Noon in 2007. The plot follows the adventures of a police detective whose life is complicated by an unexpected love affair with a supportive millionaire and by a series of life-threatening situations when an unhinged murderer decides to target her for imagined past wrongs.
Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of more than 225 romance novels. She writes as J. D. Robb for the in Death series and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. as Sarah Hardesty.
Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. As of 2011, her novels had spent a combined 861 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, including 176 weeks in the number-one spot.