Tribute / Nora Roberts / 799 pages / USA Today Bestseller November Challenge

This blockbuster novel is "the story of a big-screen legend, a small town scandal, and a young woman caught in the secrets and shadows of both." Cilla McGowan is a former child star who even had Katie dolls modeled after her TV series roll. Dissatisfied with movie life and her relationship with her showbiz mom, she returns to buy the Little Farm of her grandmother - also a star, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Cilla is a woman to be much admired and envied with her spectacular talents in rehabbing and flipping derelict homes. Can she accomplish a miracle with her grandmother's run down property? Can she withstand the violent assaults upon her property, person, and friends? Can she survive her attempt to solve a decades old mystery suggested by some hidden letters? Can she find happiness, home, and family with her comic book/graphic novel writer neighbor? This is a most satisfying read, frought with plot twists, multiple suspects, romance, and a strong female protagonist.  It should find a spot on most must-read lists.