Episode 283 – Lawless
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
This podcast ain’t big enough for two guests, but we were fortunate enough to squeeze in both Heidi and Emily from Romancing the Shelf for another round of Nora Roberts Month. This time, we went back in time with one of Nora’s rare historical romances: Lawless. So saddle up, pardner, and get ready for a trip to the Wild West! Listen to this podcast while traveling to the nearest town for dry goods.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about a flawless girl meeting a lawless boy so you don't have to. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:22.7 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:24.2 | And for this episode, we read Lawless by Nora Roberts. |
| 0:28.4 | Joining us to discuss this rare historical romance from Our Lady Nora are Romancing the Shelf |
| 0:34.1 | podcast hosts who are three books away from reading the entire Nora Roberts |
| 0:38.3 | Cannon, Heidi and Emily. |
| 0:40.6 | Hello. |
| 0:41.6 | Hello. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm Heidi. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Emily. |
| 0:44.7 | And welcome back to both of you and congratulations. |
| 0:47.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:48.9 | I, oh my gosh. |
| 0:50.0 | Like, what a ride. |
| 0:51.0 | I mean, it's like six years. |
| 0:52.9 | We're actually just a few days away from six. The 13 years. ride. I mean, it's like six years. We're actually just a few days away from six |
| 0:56.2 | years. Yeah. The 13 years. Yeah. And there will be another book published before we get finished. |
| 1:02.2 | So technically four. Of course. Of course. But it's not out yet. We're not going to run out for, you know, but it'll, it's going to be, yeah. Yeah. But that we have a, we have quite, we have quite the backlog now of all the, of all these episodes. |
| 1:15.8 | So many books. Amazing. |
| 1:18.1 | Yeah. You know, we've said before how smart you guys were to, to do a podcast about mostly good books. |
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