Roberts and her husband, Bruce Wilder, would like to decorate each of the six rooms in the former Boone Hotel "in the style of great romantic fictional couples," according to an article in the Hagerstown (Maryland) Herald-Mail.
The B&B will be known as Inn Boonsboro. Roberts would like it to open in spring 2008, according to reports.
"All the rooms will be decorated in the period" of the fictional couples, Roberts told the Herald-Mail. "I want them to be inviting and comfortable." Possible couples to be featured include Dashiell Hammett's Nick and Nora Charles, along with Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester.
Roberts and Wilder purchased a second hotel in Boonsboro which they plan to turn into a restaurant to be run by Roberts' son.
Roberts also writes a popular thriller series under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, the sci-fi police "...in Death" series.
UPDATE: On Feb. 22, 2008, the hotel that Roberts was renovating was "gutted" in a fire, according to a report in The Waynesboro (Pennsylvania) Record Herald. Roberts, whose husband owns a bookstore/cafe across the street from the historic hotel, told the Record Herald that she will rebuild and try to "recapture some of the history of the building."
