Born in Ice (Irish Born Trilogy #2)

by Nora Roberts

Overview

The second novel in the Irish Born Trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Born In Fire. 

Brianna Concannon is the kind of innkeeper who doesn’t mind the harsh winters of Ireland—and the empty bed-and-breakfast that comes with them. But this year, a famous American author needs a quiet place to stay while writing his next book.

A charmer whose easy smiles mask a guarded past, Grayson Thane plans to spend the cold winter alone. But his lovely landlady adds a complication he never expected. She’s exactly what he’s looking for in his heroine. And soon Grayson and Brianna will learn that sometimes fate has a plan of its own. Sometimes, fire can be born in ice...

Don't miss the other books in the Irish Born Trilogy
Born in Fire
Born in Shame 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780515116755
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/1995
Series:	Irish Born Trilogy Series , #2
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	322,739
Product dimensions:	4.13(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.99(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J. D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.

Hometown:

Keedysville, Maryland

Date of Birth:

1950

Place of Birth:

Silver Spring, Maryland

Website:

http://www.noraroberts.com/

Read an Excerpt

It wasn't unusual for Brianna to have a guest or two at Blackthorn Cottage during the worst of winter's storms. But January was slow, and more often than not her home was empty. She didn't mind the solitude, or the hell-hound howl of the wind, or even the leaden sky that spewed rain and ice day after bitter day. It gave her time to plan.
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What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“America’s favorite writer.”—The New Yorker

“Nora Roberts takes us into the Irish mist with Born in Ice…[She’s] an expert at characterization through the spoken word rather than description...This book kept me interested right through to the end. Read this on a rainy night—you’ll be right in the thick of it.”—The Romance Reader

“The pace of the book is smooth and even, and the writing captures the charisma and earthy charm of Ireland and the gentleness of its people.”—Publishers Weekly

Editorial Reviews

America’s favorite writer.”—The New Yorker

“Loyalty, love and acceptance are timeless themes intricately and expertly intertwined by Ms. Roberts using her patented lyrical style. This second book in the Irish series is a captivating and charming novel to be treasured.”—RT Book Reviews

“The pace of the book is smooth and even, and the writing captures the charisma and earthy charm of Ireland and the gentleness of its people.”—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Roberts's second installment in her Born In trilogy (after Born in Fire) takes the reader back to Ireland, where Brianna Concannon uncovers some unexpected and disturbing details about her deceased father. While trying to turn the attic of her bed-and-breakfast into another guest room, Brianna finds a stock certificate from a nonexistent company called Triquarter Mining-no great surprise, as the elder Concannon had always had a weakness for worthless ventures. More surprising is a set of old, passionate love letters written to her father 28 years before by a woman who was not Brianna's mother. This discovery is overshadowed by the arrival of famed mystery novelist Grayson Thane, who is to be her guest-and her lover (at least until his next novel is finished). The scope of Roberts's latest offering is limited to Brianna's and Gray's affair, leaving the reader impatient about fleeting references to footprints outside Brianna's window and a messy break-in at the B&B. Still, the pace of the book is smooth and even, and the writing captures the charisma and earthy charm of Ireland and the gentleness of its people while setting the tone for Born in Shame, the final story. (Aug.

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Cool, capable, and thoroughly domestic, Brianna Concannon welcomes American mystery writer Grayson Thane to her County Clare bed-and-breakfast, never dreaming that she and this footloose, homeless-by-choice stranger could ever have anything in common, let alone fall in love. But they do-and then must come to terms with their separate pasts before they can put the future in perspective. This latest solid contemporary love story by Roberts is the second in her Irish trilogy (after Born in Fire, Jove, 1994). [Roberts lives in Keedysville, Md.]

Library Journal

Fiacre Douglas characterizes the icy, beautiful Brianna Concannon, recently jilted, with subtle nuances and tonal shading mixed with a thick Irish brogue. When Brianna turns her family’s home into a cozy bed-and-breakfast after her father’s death and her fiancé’s unexplained breakup, Douglas depicts her fears surrounding the new business with a narration rich in vocal personality. He portrays Grayson Thane, a famous mystery novelist who is Brianna’s first long-term winter guest, with a subtle intimacy that captures their shared sexual tension—shared, that is, until Brianna repeatedly interrupts him when he’s writing his new novel. Although Douglas’s narration is good, what begins as a mystery, with clues involving lost letters and stock certificates from a nonexistent company, turns into a mediocre love story. G.D.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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