What is the theme in Immortal in Death by Nora Roberts?

Protection is a major theme in the book. Eve has issues of abandonment from her history as a child that have affected the way she looks at her job. She had no adult intervention, no one to champion her from a brute, a bully, a sexual predator. She believes that everyone needs to be protected, and her past as an abused child creates a need in her to be the one to protect the rights of the dead. One of her previous cases involved a child who died as a result of abuse and it affected her very badly, bringing back to her memory all the horrific and ghastly episodes of abuse that she suffered as a child at the hands of her father, a man who was supposed to be her protector.