Finding Forever: Rules of the Game / Second Nature

by Nora Roberts

Two fan-favorite stories about finding love, and never letting go…

Rules of the Game

Professional baseball player Parks Jones is insufferable, with an inflated ego Brooke Gordon is dying to pop. Unfortunately, he’s also her client’s spokesman for a clothing commercial. Brooke knows she can handle Parks as long as she keeps her distance. The captivating man might make her pulse race, but Brooke can’t risk getting her heart broken again. Yet Parks has other plans, and he’s willing to break a few rules to convince Brooke that love isn’t just a game to him…

Second Nature

Getting an interview with the reclusive horror writer Hunter Brown was all reporter Lee Radcliffe ever wanted. Digging into private lives is her business, but now Hunter has turned the tables. He will only give the interview if Lee agrees to go on a camping trip. Lee knows that it will take more than just good interviewing skills to get her an exclusive one-on-one. But after spending some time alone with the seductively mysterious author, Lee discovers the only thing she wants exclusively is Hunter.

Genres: Romance, Chick Lit

473 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 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

[matti · Rating 3 out of 5]

it’s the way that nora roberts, a romance writer with a pseudonym for her crime thriller books, wrote a romance about a crime thriller writer who used a pseudonym for his romance books... she called out the stigmatizers of the romance genre & i’m GLAD. metametametametameta

i gave the first two stars & the second 3. i rounded up.

purchased at Barnes & Noble - Layton UT

[Donna Schwartz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was put together with two shorter novels from the 80's. Both are about strong women who are working their way up their professional ladder.
In the first story, Brooke is a director who is great at her job. She needs to direct a baseball player with an equally big ego, who manages to break through the protections she has erected to develop a relationship with her.
The second novel, is about a reporter for a 1st class magazine, who despite her wealthy background, is trying to make it on her own. Lee is trying to get a story on a mysterious best-selling writer of horror novels and finds that he is leading her to a very different type of writing than she imagined.
Both stories were very enjoyable.

[Mari · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first book, Rules of the Game was good, the male character, Parks, was everything, smart, good looking, great personality, etc. But why was the female character, Brooke, made out to be somewhat of an unpredictable female? No rhyme or reason for her actions/moods. With all her money, couldn’t she have gotten therapy to get deal with her broken childhood? Good story, but ....

The second story- Second Nature, was somewhat similar, except these two, Hunter and Lee were both writers and had very strong personalities. They had a much easier time finally dealing with their jobs, distance, etc. Good book, both had the men becoming very smart, figuring out what their girlfriend was going to say, what she was feeling. The men had great parts.

[Lindsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always a nice escape from reality.

[Cheryl Pacaud]

DNF

[Kennedy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing!!! Loved it!

[Suzanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good combination of escapism.

[Rhu Sherrard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Standard fair - Read Rules of the Game during my vacation. Easy read, standard Nora Roberts
Enjoyable

[Susan Abbey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two great stories of strong independent women - who unexpectedly fall in love

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

[Jennifer Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rules of the Game: 3 Stars
Typical, older Nora Roberts book. I wasn't a fan of the narrator for this one so it did kind of make me not like the book. I probably would've done better reading it.

Second Nature: 4 Stars
Pretty good older romance by Ms. Roberts. You can tell her writing style has evolved (some stuff for the better) as the years have gone by. I liked the two main characters, Hunter and Lee. Their romance was a typical classic romance story. Well written (as always!) book.

[Khadija · Rating 5 out of 5]

rules of the game:
love it smm! the scene from the first chapter was one of my favs! so many great tropes in there too.
second nature:
love the camping romance and hunter. someone get me a hunter lmao