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Overview

The #1 New York Times bestseller is now in paperback!
Seth Quinn is finally home.

It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, he'd been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love.

Now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, Seth is settling down on Maryland's Eastern Shore, surrounded once again by Cam, Ethan, and Phil, their wives and children, all the blessed chaos of the extended Quinn clan. Finally, he's back in the little blue-and-white house where there's always a boat at the dock, a rocker on the porch, and a dog in the yard.

Still, a lot has changed in St. Christopher since he's been gone-and the most intriguing change of all is the presence of Dru Whitcomb Banks. A city girl who's opened a florist shop in this seaside town, she craves independence and the challenge of establishing herself without the influence of her wealthy connections. In Seth, she sees another kind of challenge-a challenge that she can't resist.

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This is the fourth book in the Quinn family series that began with Sea Swept. Seth, the youngest, was ten through the original trilogy. Nearly two decades have passed, and the boy is now a man. A very successful artist, steeped in the romance of Europe, he returns home trying to outrun his past. Complementing Seth is Druscilla, who comes with the kind of family ties that bind and gag. She is a good foil for Seth as both struggle to balance feelings about family, albeit from different angles. James Daniels does an adequate job of bringing the series to its climax, but he has trouble getting the tenor of the characters: Seth is too breezy, and Ethan is too slow. But he catches Dru in all her uptight, buttoned-down glory. Nevertheless, expect high circulation; a necessary purchase by all public libraries.-Jodi L. Israel, MLS, Jamaica Plain, MA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780515136265
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/27/2004
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 53,140
  • Series: Quinn Brothers Series , #4
  • Product dimensions: 4.28 (w) x 6.74 (h) x 1.03 (d)

Meet the Author

Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts is truly a publishing phenomenon. Today, she is one of America's leading novelists, with many #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling novels to her credit. Her books are published around the world, made into films, excerpted in national magazines and translated in over twenty-five different languages.

Biography

Not only has Nora Roberts written more bestsellers than anyone else in the world (according to Publishers Weekly), she’s also created a hybrid genre of her own: the futuristic detective romance. And that’s on top of mastering every subgenre in the romance pie: the family saga, the historical, the suspense novel. But this most prolific and versatile of authors might never have tapped into her native talent if it hadn't been for one fateful snowstorm.

As her fans well know, in 1979 a blizzard trapped Roberts at home for a week with two bored little kids and a dwindling supply of chocolate. To maintain her sanity, Roberts started scribbling a story -- a romance novel like the Harlequin paperbacks she'd recently begun reading. The resulting manuscript was rejected by Harlequin, but that didn't matter to Roberts. She was hooked on writing. Several rejected manuscripts later, her first book was accepted for publication by Silhouette.

For several years, Roberts wrote category romances for Silhouette -- short books written to the publisher's specifications for length, subject matter and style, and marketed as part of a series of similar books. Roberts has said she never found the form restrictive. "If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations," she explained. "If this doesn't suit you, you shouldn't write it. I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."

Roberts never violated the reader's expectations, but she did show a gift for bringing something fresh to the romance formula. Her first book, Irish Thoroughbred (1981), had as its heroine a strong-willed horse groom, in contrast to the fluttering young nurses and secretaries who populated most romances at the time. But Roberts's books didn't make significant waves until 1985, when she published Playing the Odds, which introduced the MacGregor clan. It was the first bestseller of many.

Roberts soon made a name for herself as a writer of spellbinding multigenerational sagas, creating families like the Scottish MacGregors, the Irish Donovans and the Ukrainian Stanislaskis. She also began working on romantic suspense novels, in which the love story unfolds beneath a looming threat of violence or disaster. She grew so prolific that she outstripped her publishers' ability to print and market Nora Roberts books, so she created an alter ego, J.D. Robb. Under the pseudonym, she began writing romantic detective novels set in the future. By then, millions of readers had discovered what Publishers Weekly called her "immeasurable diversity and talent."

Although the style and substance of her books has grown, Roberts remains loyal to the genre that launched her career. As she says, "The romance novel at its core celebrates that rush of emotions you have when you are falling in love, and it's a lovely thing to relive those feelings through a book."

Good To Know

Roberts still lives in the same Maryland house she occupied when she first started writing -- though her carpenter husband has built on some additions. She and her husband also own Turn the Page Bookstore Café in Boonsboro, Maryland. When Roberts isn't busy writing, she likes to drop by the store, which specializes in Civil War titles as well as autographed copies of her own books.

Roberts sued fellow writer Janet Dailey in 1997, accusing her of plagiarizing numerous passages of her work over a period of years. Dailey paid a settlement and publicly apologized, blaming stress and a psychological disorder for her misconduct.

    1. Also Known As:
      J. D. Robb; Sarah Hardesty; Jill March; Eleanor Marie Robertson (birth name)
    2. Hometown:
      Keedysville, Maryland
    1. Date of Birth:
      1950
    2. Place of Birth:
      Silver Spring, Maryland
    1. Website:
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Read an Excerpt

Seth Quinn is finally home.

It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, he'd been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love.

Now a grown man returning from Europe as a successful painter, Seth is settling down on Maryland's Eastern Shore, surrounded once again by Cam, Ethan, and Phil, their wives and children, all the blessed chaos of the extended Quinn clan. Finally, he's back in the little blue-and-white house where there's always a boat at the dock, a rocker on the porch, and a dog in the yard.

Still, a lot has changed in St. Christopher since he's been gone-and the most intriguing change of all is the presence of Dru Whitcomb Banks. A city girl who's opened a florist shop in this seaside town, she craves independence and the challenge of establishing herself without the influence of her wealthy connections. In Seth, she sees another kind of challenge-a challenge that she can't resist.

But storms are brewing that are about to put their relationship to the test. Dru's past has made her sensitive to deception-and slow to trust. And Seth's past has made him a target of blackmail-as a secret he's kept hidden for years threatens to explode, destroying his new life and his new love. . . .

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  • Posted January 11, 2011

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    A Good Quality Ending

    Even though I've read this book before, I did go into it like I had never read it at all. Most of that was because I felt like this book (much like the one immediately before it) was slightly forgetful. Seth was and is still easy for me to forget because he is such a smoothly blended combination of his brothers that I feel as though I've read this story before. I know that the point needed to be stressed that he was accepted as a Quinn and therefore took on the Quinn attributes, but I think it lost a bit of the boy that I loved in the previous trilogy. In fact, his attitude was so like Cam's and the way he handled the various situations thrown his way was so like Ethan, that I thought I was repeating their stories. Of course, his high-class taste was from Phillip. Still, I didn't really get to see the vulnerability of the boy from before. I'm disappointed that he grew into too proud of a man to let himself get that way. Even Cam showed how vulnerable he was at one point and it was beautiful. Dru was also forgetful to me. More so than Seth. She seemed a lot like Sybill in that her money made her whiney and timid. Not my kind of female character, especially for someone so manly and tough like Seth. But I will admit that the way Gloria was handled at the end was very good. It made up for the anticlimactic ending of Phillip's story. I enjoyed the realistic approach. Gloria goes to jail and Seth realizes that she will probably get released and continue to haunt him. That leaves the ending open and raw instead of wrapping it up in a shiny package with a fluffy ribbon included. I know I had a lot of negative criticism for this one, but it was still quite good through it all. I just wish I could have seen more Seth and less of his brothers in him. But that's all in the eyes of the beholder. Either way I look at it, it was a good, solid quality ending to the series. One that I would recommend for a good trip into the male mind for a change.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 8, 2010

    wonderful conclusion to a great mini series

    This series of four separate stories of the Quinn brothers and their growing families were a pleasure to read.As with most Nora Roberts novels, they are all can't put down books, that leaves you rushing to B & N for the next installment. Fortunately for me, they were available and I did not have to wait for Ms Roberts to finish writing them.Keep up the wonderful story telling.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 30, 2012

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    Roberts is an expert at weaving stories filled with family and r

    Roberts is an expert at weaving stories filled with family and romance. Everything she touches is gold. I loved this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 31, 2012

    Good, not her best.

    We catch up.with the Quinns to wrap up the very satisfying trilogy.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 17, 2012

    reread

    I've lost count how many times I've read this series and will read it again. Loved it over and over again.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 10, 2011

    Highly Recommend!

    This whole series is GREAT! They read easy and keep you very interested! I loved it!

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  • Posted July 17, 2010

    a great read

    i really loved this book...its romantic and very family oriented

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  • Posted July 8, 2010

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    Good read

    I really enjoyed ready this 4 book series. It can be a bit predictable and each brother's story is similar, but I found myself laughing out loud on more than one occasion. It's a great story of "family" dedication with a dose of love and romance. It's great to see charaters evolve.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 19, 2010

    My favorite of this series!

    I love reading abut the Quinn brothers but this one was my absolute favorite! I loved reading about what happened to all of the characters after book 3. Reading about Seth, Came, Ethan, and Phillip as well as the families that they have made makes me want to visit Maryland.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2010

    Great series

    Love the book. Couldn't put it down missed dinner.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 31, 2009

    Nora Roberts Rocks

    I loved the book. I enjoy reading any of Nora Roberts. I'm planning on purchasing them all.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 8, 2009

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    Nice tie-up to the Gallagher trilogy!

    I really enjoyed finding out about the other Gallagher brothers and their families they created. I was left wondering about too many things at the end of the trilogy, but most questions were answered in this fourth book. Nice work with the continuity. If course, I have enjoyed Nora Roberts since she wrote for Harliquin. Used to look for her name on the monthly list of new books, knowing at least one book would be better than average that month if her name appeared. This book could be read as a stand alone, but it is so much more if you have read the trilogy first.

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  • Posted May 9, 2009

    Great Book!!

    This is a welcome addition to the Quinn Series. I couldn't put it down.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 22, 2006

    Another Amazing Read

    I must say I was a little hesitant to read this book, and had been putting it off for a while, choosing to read other NR books first. But now that I have: IT IS AMAZING!!!! I couldn't put the book down, and I finished it in five hours.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 1, 2005

    Awesome Series!!

    I really enjoyed reading about Seth and his life. This book added so much humor to make the situations a bit more fun, especially since Seth is still young. Reading about him as a man was far better than hearing about him when he was a boy. However, I must say that I do not adore him the way that I adore Ethan Quinn!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 15, 2005

    What a read?!!!!

    I always knew Seth would make a great hero. It was fun watching him as a kid and as a man, he is even more wonderful.Thanks for letting us share his life Nora! Great book!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 15, 2004

    Love the Series

    I Loved this whole series! I am partial to the Cameron and Anna story, but all and all it was a great book and great way to end an unforgetable story of an unforgetable family! Great Read!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 27, 2004

    loved this 4th of the series.

    I LIKED ALL 4 BOOKS IN THE SERIES BUT LOVED THE HUMOR IN #4, CHESAPEAKE BLUE. THIS A KEEPER, KNOW I WILL READ IT AGAIN.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 27, 2004

    AMAZING BOOK!!!loved it

    I loved this book .It was so romantic and yet subtle the way the book was planned out..Loved the characters though if i woulda known there was a series i woulda read the whole series to get to know them better..Any way alll to say it was a great book and lovely read!!thanx for listening

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 6, 2004

    fabulous!

    i loved, loved, loved this book! it was supremely wonderful and enchanting. really quickly i fell in love with seth. he was so much like one of those guys any girl would want to fall in love with or dream of. and yeah... i admit, this book was quite a bit like a fairy tale whereas the other books of his brothers: cam, ethan, and phyllip seemed much more realistic. i also agree with anyone who said that it was pretty predictable of who would cause the problem in this book. but, at least he solved the problem, points for seth. anyways, i still give this book 5 stars cause i don't care if this didn't seem all that realistic, i still loved it mainly cause seth was such a dreamboat. and i thought the chemistry between dru and seth was sweet and romantic.

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