Irish Born

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Penguin, 2003 - Fiction - 758 pages

In this stunning trilogy, here in one volume, Nora Roberts captures the enduring passions of the Concannon sisters of Ireland -- three women of ambition and talent, bound by the timeless spirit and restless beauty of their land...

Born in Fire... Maggie Concannon is a complex woman and a talented glassmaker. One man, gallery owner Rogan Sweeny, has seen the soul in her art, and vows to help her build a career. When he comes to Maggie's studio, her heart is inflamed by their fierce attraction -- and her scarred past is slowly healed by love...

Born in Ice...The icy winters leave Brianna Concannon's bed-and-breakfast quiet...and empty. But this year she's expecting an unusual guest -- American mystery writer Grayson Thane. A charmer whose easy smiles mask a guarded past, he plans to spend the cold winter alone. But sometimes fate has a plan of its own. And sometimes a fire can be born in ice...

Born in Shame... Shannon Bodine's life revolved around her job as a graphic artist at a New York ad agency. But her world turns upside down when she learns the identity of her real father: Thomas Concannon. Obeying her late mother's last wish, Shannon reluctantly travels to County Clare. There, amid the lush landscape steeped in legend, she discovers the possibility of a love that was meant to be...

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Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring, Maryland on October 10, 1950. Her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published in 1981. Since then, she has written more than 200 novels. She writes romances under her own name including Montana Sky, Blue Smoke, Carolina Moon, The Search, Chasing Fire, The Witness, The Perfect Hope, Inner Harbor, Dark Witch, Shadow Spell, The Collector, The Villa, The Liar, The Obsession, and Shelter in Place. She writes crime novels under the pseudonym of J. D. Robb including the In Death series. She has been given the Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into their Hall of Fame.

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