Treasures Lost, Treasures Found

by Nora Roberts

Purple Lilac: Love's First Emotions

Ky Silver had awakened her to love. It had been almost impossible to walk out on him, but Kate Hardesty had. She'd been certain back then that she'd made the right choice, but when an unexpected legacy from her father forced her back to Ocracoke Island and Ky, nothing seemed certain. Had she lost a priceless treasure, or had she found one...?

Genres: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Chick Lit, Audiobook, Harlequin

219 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 28, 1986

About the author

Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Hideaway, Under Currents, Come Sundown, The Awakening, Legacy, and coming in November 2021 -- The Becoming -- the second book in The Dragon Heart Legacy. She is also the author of the futuristic suspense In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.

Reviews

[Alaina · Rating 2 out of 5]

I do like a good Nora Roberts book every now and then but this one was just okay for me.

Treasures Lost, Treasures Found introduces us to Kate and Ky. They had a little love fest going on back in their day until the day her dad sends her away. These two get an unexpected reunion after he dies because she wants to continue his research. She is determined to find the sunken ship that he had his heart on and she needs Ky to do it.

Things started off rather slow for me which was okay because it was rather slow at work. These two were kind of cute and it was pretty obvious that their flame was going to rekindle. It was adorable when Ky was going to make her pay for leaving him and their island of love years ago.. because we all knew it was going to happen.

It didn't take long for these two to figure out that they never really stopped loving one another. I get it, it happens.. but eh. In the end, they were cute and the story was cute - I just wished the pacing was better.

[Pam Nelson · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the story as a whole but this is the 3rd Nora Roberts book I have tried and it really was just meh for me. I don’t think she is the author for me.

I liked the characters Kate was a strong-willed woman and Ky was a great “hero” type just nothing really stood out for me or caught my attention. I guess it was just an ok romance story.

Nice HEA
Now the narration was fantastic really Therese Plummer is a total favorite of mine.

[Audrey Dry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ha sido una lectura muy extraña. Por un lado hay cosas que me han gustado, por otro lado hay partes que han sido pesadas. Cuando digo pesadas no me refiero a difíciles de leer, sino a que marea mucho la perdiz. En realidad no pasa gran cosa entre los personajes, no hay muchas escenas diferentes unas de otras, casi siempre es lo mismo. Creo que más de la mitad del libro describe cómo se sienten los protagonistas, una y otra vez, una y otra vez, y así hasta el final. Digamos que la mayor parte se me ha antojado repetida. Los protagonistas no evolucionan. Simplemente acaban resolviendo su falta de comunicación. Quizá esto no esté mal, es que simplemente es así, y en realidad estamos acostumbrados a ver una evolución. Kate me ha parecido terca e incomprensible en cuanto a entender a otros personajes. Ella sola se hace un lío. Ky sabe lo que quiere en todo momento, pero es realmente posesivo y es ese aspecto el que no me ha gustado personalmente. Al principio de la novela incluso me pareció algo violento. Sin embargo, tengo que decir que si hay algún personaje que evoluciona, aunque sea un poquito, es Ky. Por eso siento que este libro no me ha llenado del todo, porque creo que ella era la que más tenía que evolucionar. Él también, claro. Cosa que hace. Pero ella se queda tal cual, y eso hace que me parezca un personaje algo vacío al final de la novela. Es como si no hubiera aprendido absolutamente nada.

La historia en sí es bonita pero repetitiva. Por ese motivo le he dado 3 estrellas. Es una mezcla extraña, así que he decidido dejarlo lo más a la mitad posible.

[R. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Treasures Lost Treasures Found is one of Nora Robert's early stories. Personally, I loved it. Gosh This author is GIFTED! I probably enjoyed it a lot more due to my current summer surroundings, which made this story just perfect for me! I couldn't put it down.

Get a whiff of that. It's the fresh air of the salty ocean and sandy beach! Listen. It's the smooth sound of the ocean waves and the voice of seagulls flying around. Feel it. It's the heat of the hot summer sun feeling warm against your skin. Mmm! Well ain't that a delicious taste? The taste of the seafood that cozy little restaurant is just best at making! Would you look at that? The sight of the ocean life. The sight of it's wonders and dangers, and of treasures that have been lost there for centuries.



Now add love into the picture. That takes up all the senses as well!



Ky and Kate had a wonderful summer romance, but instead of staying with him she took the choice of going back home and going for her career. Four years later Kate finds notes and sea charts her father left behind, and decides to continue her father's search on a sunken ship that held... TREASURE! Gold.



Now for this journey, Kate needs Ky's ocean expertise. He only decides to help her because he basically held a grudge on her for just leaving those four years ago. So he wants to make her pay. He wants her to want him back, for her to feel for him again... and by the time she does he'll be the one turning around to choose a different path. Yeah his plan starts going out the dump when he realizes he's never stopped loving her.

This story takes you in on Kate and Ky's journey to find that sunken treasure! And to get a hold of the most wonderful treasure given by life itself... love. ♥

[Spencer · Rating 3 out of 5]

2020
Ky and Kate were cute together. Although, Ky annoyed me just a little bit. He had that caveman attitude of needing to protect his woman at all costs. Which, like, I get and all, but he didn't like when she tried to protect him. And sometimes men need as much protection as women do. Love is all about protecting the ones you love, so I was slightly agitated about him and his attitude.

The pacing was a little slow for me, too. Nora Roberts usually has such a great build up with her romances, but this time, for me, it just seemed to slow. I mean, we definitely knew that they were going to fall for each other (again) from the start, but it didn't really seem to happen until 3/4 of the way through the story.

And I never really got why she felt like she had to do all she could to make her father like her. Or why she worshipped/followed him everywhere. Like, you are a grown adult woman. You do not need to bend over backwards to make your father approve of you. He should just approve of you because you are doing what you want to do. That you are happy with your life. I mean, she didn't even cry at his funeral. That is quite telling, if you ask me.

[Jenna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kimmeltävä horisontti tarjosi minulle lähinnä aivotonta hömppää luettavaksi, jotta voisin nollata viikonlopun reissussa täydellisesti. Pystyin tämän kirjan avulla myös nollaamaan aiemmin lukemani kirjan jäljiltä, jotten sekoita tarinoita keskenään.

Tämä Katen ja Kyn välinen rakkaustarina oli mielestäni lievästi absurdi. Kesäromanssi neljän vuoden takaa kyti molempien mielessä edelleen; paljon oli loukattuja tunteita ja ennen kaikkea särkyneitä sydämiä - mutta kuinka ollakaan kyyhkyläiset päätyvät toistensa käsivarsille aarteenetsinnän ohella. Omaan makuuni tässä oli aivan liikaa "päättäväisyyttä" toisen ihmisen rajojen ylittämiseen, jopa loukkaamiseen... Vaikkakin vain ajatusten ja aikomusten tasolla!

[La Bruja Lectora (Tata) · Rating 2 out of 5]

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Decepcionada de este libro, es bastante flojo y no estaba pensando en reseñarlo, definitivamente esta autora la voy a descartar de mis lecturas, ya no me satisfacen sus lecturas, pero igual les reseñare este libro.

Kate es una profesora de la universidad de Yale tras la muerte de su padre encuentra en su escritorio lo que parecía una búsqueda del tesoro de un barco mercante de hace dos siglos y que se perdió en las aguas de las costas de Ocracoke en Carolina del Norte, aparentemente esta búsqueda comenzó unos cuatros años antes cuando ella y su padre pasaron el verano en dicha isla, solo que Kate nunca supo a que iba exactamente su padre porque se enfrascó en una relación amorosa con Ky quien era el marinero a quien contrataron.

Cuatro años después Kate decide volver y continuar con el trabajo de su padre, contratando los servicios de Ky quien había hecho cambios drásticos en su vida que asombraron a Kate.

[Lizabeth Tucker · Rating 2 out of 5]

When her father dies, Kate Hardesty discovers he was researching a particular sunken treasure. She decides to try and find the English merchant ship in honor of his extensive work. It means reuniting with Ky Silver, the man she fell in love with and left behind four years earlier. This time Kate is determined to keep things professional.

This should've checked off all my favorite trope boxes, but it was such a struggle to read. I finally gave up three chapters in. I just didn't care what happened to either main characters, much less their treasure hunt. Slow and boring is a quick take on what I found. Very sad for a Roberts' book. DNF, 2 out of 5 for what I did manage to read.

[Mafi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Estava um pouco receosa em ler "Mar de tesouros" não sei bem porquê mas a sinopse parecia-me muito semelhante a outro livro da autora - O Recife - e quando isso acontece não é bom sinal, embora também pusesse ser mesmo só impressão da tradução e as estórias serem completamente diferentes. Eu não li ainda O Recife mas depois desta leitura tenho de o ler brevemente pois adorei este livrinho!

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[Cindi]

I liked this because it took place in the summer on the beach!! It let me dream I was warm!!!

[Amie Doughty · Rating 2 out of 5]

It would have been 3 stars if Roberts knew a darn thing about how professors work. Seriously, an assistant professor at Yale is hired for research potential first, teaching almost not at all, yet Kate is all about the teaching. Ugh. To make matters worse, it's never clear what her specialty in English literature is and the literature references are so broad, she sounds like a generalist, which would not be hired by Yale.

[Lisa Shower · Rating 2 out of 5]

The premise sounded promising, but I was misled by it. I enjoy Nora Roberts occasionally but this one had way too much sappy romance and very little adventure, mystery as it appeared to have.

[Michael Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

OK

[monica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mar de tesoros

La historia está muy linda.Dos personas que en el pasado tuvieron una relación amorosa se reencuentran.además de buscar un barco hundido se van reencontrando mutuamente.no está mal

[Maura · Rating 3 out of 5]

You can really see the difference between Nora's 1980's stuff and her 1990's stuff. It gets so much better. You see it in the fact that her characters have a bit more depth and she actually switches POV. In this story, Kate is trying to finish her father's dream (he's dead) and goes back to North Carolina, to Ky Silver, to search for the sunken ship that her father was looking for. She and Ky have a history. They'd been in love and when Ky asked Kate to stay, she walked away...unwilling to give up her father's approval. So thing start off very bitter between the two of them. They do soften towards each other, as they must, but Kate continually got on my nerves with her irrational stubbornness and yes, on occasion her stupidity. It frustrated me that she thought everyone was trying to control her and keep her from doing what she needed to do, when they seriously did know better than her and were looking out for her. I don't think asking someone to take some bed rest after they'd been stung by a sting ray and out cold for 24 hours is too much. But no, stupid Kate insists she can dive again the day after. I also got irritated that the heroine blames everything on Ky, who isn't such a bad hero, a bit alpha, but he controls with good reason...and when he doesn't it is often because he's emotionally overwrought. I don't equate wanting to take care of someone and protect them as trying to bend them to your will. So that part of the book didn't really make a whole lot of sense to me. Still, it was a lot better in quality than the early books I've been reading by Nora. I actually enjoyed it.

[Sandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was an okay read. It was kind of slow and not much of a story line except the main characters and their love life or lack there of. I would have like to hear more about the town and the people in it. All we meet is a brother and sister-in-law. There's a doctor. Not much else. I liked the idea of looking for a long lost ship and finding treasure, but again, most of the book was the two main characters arguing about their relationship.
I'm a big fan of Nora Roberts, but this book was just okay.

[Dee · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wasn't thrilled with this one. It was an early NR, and from the writing, I'd guess it was one of the first she wrote, even though it wasn't published until a few years later.

Way too much reflection here, page after page of heroine thinking about hero and her father, or hero thinking about heroine. Meanwhile, they searched for a sunken ship. But the only real conflict was inside their heads, and it wasn't that interesting.

Nora's gotten way better. I shouldn't have bothered with this one.

[Cynthia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yikes. Sex and more graphic sex. It was hard to find a plot between the inane choices made by the characters and the sex scenes. Are people really this stupid and unable to communicate? On the other hand, I enjoyed the diving and salvage aspects of the book.

[John B · Rating 1 out of 5]

not Nora Robert’s style

Too predictable, characters not deep enough, storyline not interesting. I’d almost think someone else wrote it, but who knows? Didn’t keep me wanting to read it - it was more forced.

[Mónica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adorei este livro. Que vontade que me deu de aprender a fazer mergulho e descobrir as maravilhas que o mar esconde. Uma história refrescante e animada para estes dias de calor.

[Kathleen · Rating 2 out of 5]

meh. This one did not do it for me. I did not like the heroine. Wanted to slap her.

[Merryll · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh why did I waste my time?

[Vi ~ Inkvotary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inkvotary
At the request of her father, Kate leaves the island of Ocracoke, where she spent a wonderful summer, and thus leaves the love she associated with the diver Dominic Silver. Years later, when her father unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, Kate not only has to discover that she did not know about his illness, but also that her father spent years looking for a sunken ship, the “Liberty” and meticulously recorded data on it. She hires her former love and best diver there is and soon realizes that she is not only fascinated by diving, but also by Dominic and her overwhelming feelings for him.

Extremely sensitive and very effective, Nora Roberts has written a romance novel that is exciting, captivating and full of passion at the same time. The author has created action in a clear style that has just the right mix of fantastic description, erotic and dialogue, yet still leaves the reader space for their own imagination and fantasy.

Though you can tell, that this novel was written somewhere in the 1980s, there is nothing cheesy about this novel. You can also see, that Nora Roberts still uses a basic plot in all of her novels and that the beauty of the landscape is a big part of each and every one of her books. Only the story and the figures change. I like that very much.

Impressively, the author has brought her figures through their actions to the reader. Her protagonist portrayed Nora Roberts as a very petite and incredibly strong woman, who desperately longs for her father´s love and pride, and even more to decide about her own life.
It is remarkable to observe how Kate is undergoing development in the course of the plot that clearly shows to the reader that no matter what happens in the end, she will achieve her goal and free herself from the father, who is overpowering even beyond death.

An absolutely successful romance novel that has no kitsch in it and is written as sentimentally as only Nora Roberts can write. Ideal for enjoyable reading hours and exciting entertainment.
But I have to say too, now, around ten years later after reading it for the second time, that it is none of those novels, that were able to thrill me as much as I was excited about it when I read it for the first time. My rating is that I gave the first time because the novel still deserves it. My personal change in taste and feelings about a book is not changing the novel itself.

[Elsa Eklund · Rating 2 out of 5]

En glad tvåa ☺️
Har aldrig förr läst en Nora Roberts bok, så tänkte att det kunde vara en grej att göra, speciellt då denna bok var den mest lånade boken förra året i Bosund Bibliotek. Egentligen var jag mer intresserad av att veta vad bosundborna gillar att läsa (eller iaf 22 av dem), än att förlora mig i den romantiska värld Roberts skapat. Lol.
Efter att ha läst boken förstår jag varför Nora Roberts är så populär. Hon skriver enkelt och läsningen flyter på utan några krångligheter. Själva boken i sig var dock en basic romantisk bok, men lite extra detaljerad kring åtrå och beröring. Efter att ha läst 20 sidor visste jag exakt vad som skulle hända, och efter de resterande 300ish sidorna så hade allt blivit bekräftat. På så sätt var det ingen stor läsupplevelse. Men händelserna kring dykningen efter vraket och allt med havet var fascinerande och jag blev nästan lite intresserad av att djupdyka, vilket jag aldrig förr varit. Det är ju pluspoäng. Detaljerna kring förälskelsen, åtrån och den fysiska närheten kunde för min del ha uteblivit, för mig räcker det som läsare att läsa om en kyss och sen lämna resten åt fantasin om man vill ta sina tankar dit. Speciellt kändes det konstigt och enormt värdsligt att läsa boken samtidigt som jag håller på med Första Korintierbrevet. På något sätt blev alltihop lite motsägande.
Nåväl, jag hoppas att ingen av bosundborna som läst boken jämför sitt eget äktenskap, eller drömmer om att det är så här kärkek ska vara, med bokens förälskelse eller kärlek. Blir oftast provocerad av att läsa romaner där romansen är i fokus eftersom de ger en så fel bild av vad kärlek, relationer och äktenskap är (iaf enligt mig).
Kanske det blir en till Roberts bok nångång, vem vet. Måste kanske se om alla böcker är så inriktade på det fysiska, eller om detta var utstickande. (Har säkert blivit lite mer pryd med åldern, det var ju inte precis någon chockerande läsning eller för den delen erotisk läsning. Lol.)

[Isabel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I skimmed through a lot of the detail in this story, but I liked the chemistry between the characters and the overall premise. There were some issues with pacing, and the whole thing about owing this to her father felt overdone without a very compelling reason why she felt the constant need to seek his approval her whole life. I think a little more backstory on both characters and what happened four years ago (specifically how they parted) would've been great. The ending felt extremely abrupt to me— Kate realizes love requires compromise, they agree to compromise, the end? Even just an epilogue of their relationship a year later and what they did about the Liberty and Kate's museum plans would've brought much more closure. The story was decent when it got going, but the ending was completely unsatisfying. I also wish the secondary characters had a bit more development and were present more than being convenient for plot. It got a little boring when it was just the two main characters having the same insecurities over and over again the whole time. I tend to really enjoy Nora Roberts, but this missed the mark for me.

[Michele A. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kate's father passed away and, while going through his things, she discovers that he was trying to find a sunken ship on all of their treks to the coast of North Carolina. Four years ago she spent a summer there and had a romance with Ky, who was the boat captain for them that summer. She was forced to leave and go back to her life by her father. She is now interested in using Ky to help her find this lost treasure. Things would have been okay, but she was kind of off-putting to me for most of this book. She left, of her own free will, and seems to think that Ky should grovel for letting her go. She is now a Professor at Yale and treats him like one of her students a lot of the time. For most of the book we are told how Ky is restless but, in reality, he has a lot more going on than she ever gave him credit for. She had to own how she and her father felt like Ky wasn't going to amount to anything other than a boat captain. At 32-years-old he was doing a lot to make his life and the life of his family better. I felt like she owed him an apology and not the other way around. The amount of times she treated him like the help was not endearing at all.

[Carole · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a surprisingly dull read, but I kept going to the very end because, at some level, I kept thinking it would perk up. It had all the right elements: a great location with ocean and boats, losses driving a new ventures and possibilities, a story about a romance ended badly now with the potential for healing the second time around. But it was told so slowly that I kept forgetting what was changing, what was moving forward, what was falling back. So many words and pages devoted to introspection on the part of the main characters but no action at all. No other characters were allowed to reveal themselves and actually become part of the story; they were potentially interesting but really barely there. Even diving for treasure on a sunken ship became dull and all that happened under water only served to drive the main characters to more introspection. Tedious, tiring, disappointingly flat.

[anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

i immediately didn’t like the “second chance” trope, main characters interacted 4 years before the present day and already had had all the first moments. i’m tired of books where a third person influences main character’s decision to leave a relationship.

in the present main characters were bitter towards each other and instead of speaking and resolving all the issues, they continuously and deliberately were hurting each other.

“When the time was right, he’d have his fill of Kate. That he promised himself. He’d take exactly what he felt she owed him. But she wouldn’t touch his emotions again. When he took her to bed, it would be with cold calculation.”

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kate, a professor at Yale, wants to fulfill her dead father's dream - find the treasure of a sunken English merchant ship off the coast of the North Carolina island of Ocracoke where she spent many summer vacations with her father. She hires the best diver she knows, Ky Silver, with whom she had a summer fling on her last vacation on the island. Of course their reunion is filled with tension, anger, and surprises. The novel focuses more on their relationship than on the search for the treasure. But I enjoyed it in spite of the fact that it was sometimes slow moving. Not my favorite Nora Roberts novel.

[Monika · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kate and Ky were having a second chance romance where they were treasure hunting off the coast of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. She finds the where the Liberty (an English merchant ship) sunk from her late father’s research. Ky was helping her father, but he didn’t know about the wreckage. They have a past, but Ky is one of the only people who could help her find the wreckage. It was a lot of fun with they adventured down into the ocean looking for lost gold while fighting over their feelings for each other. There was some dubious consent stuff in it, but not horrible especially being written in 1986.