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Overview

In the conclusion to her acclaimed Three Sisters Island trilogy, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Nora Roberts masterfully evokes the quaint charm of New England, weaving a spellbinding tale of true love—and sheer magic...

Mia Devlin knows what it’s like to love with your whole heart—and then watch your love walk away. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared an incredible bond built on passion, legend, and fate. But then one day he fled Three Sisters Island, leaving her lost in memories of the magic they shared—and determined to live without love...

The new owner of the island’s only hotel, Sam has returned to Three Sisters with hopes of winning back Mia’s affections. He is puzzled when she greets him with icy indifference—for the chemistry between them is still sizzling and true. Angry, hurt and deeply confused, Mia refuses to admit that a passion for Sam still burns up her heart. But she’ll need his help—and his powers—to face her greatest, most terrifying challenge. And as the deadline for breaking a centuries-old curse draws near, they must take the first steps toward destiny—and come together to turn back the dark...

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Publishers Weekly
The final installment in Roberts's Three Sisters trilogy (after Heaven and Earth), which is set on a New England island called Three Sisters, lacks the compelling emotional drama that has won her such a loyal readership. After being abandoned by her lover 12 years before, white witch Mia Devlin has developed a charming bookstore and cafe, a spectacular garden and a close circle of friends, all of whom share her involvement in the Craft. Only an age-old curse mars Mia's idyllic existence and threatens the future of the island itself. Then her former flame, Sam Logan himself a witch returns to the island, determined to win Mia back. The paranormal elements that tastefully flavored a number of Roberts's earlier titles is a bland additive here, creating the book's only suspense and filling scene after scene with discussions and manifestations of magic. Those who don't believe in spells, charms or paranormal wolves may find it hard to enjoy this story and the hokey chanting that comes with it (No one who passes now need fear. You can do no more harm here). As always, Roberts's prose is gracefully styled, and her storytelling is deft despite the weak material. But with perfect jobs, perfect homes, perfect hair and the force of the Craft behind them, Mia and company are barely human enough to move the reader's heart. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
When Sam Logan returns to Three Sisters Island after an 11-year absence, he has two goals in mind: revitalizing the family hotel and reclaiming Mia Devlin, the woman he loved as a teenager and then deserted. However, the wary Mia is not the na ve girl he left behind; as one of three powerful witches charged with saving the island from an ancient curse, she is not about to let Sam hurt her again or interfere with her task. But Sam has a part to play in the final confrontation with the evil that threatens the island-and the people he loves. Fast-paced, beautifully sensual, and filled with three-dimensional characters readers would want as friends, this concluding volume of Roberts's trilogy (which includes Dance upon the Air and Heaven and Earth) rewards fans with a well-told tale that neatly ties up all the ends with a fiery climax that reaffirms the power of love over evil. A best-selling writer and member of the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame, Roberts lives in Keedysville, MD. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780515132878
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/28/2002
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 33,080
  • Series: Three Sisters Island Trilogy Series , #3
  • Product dimensions: 4.20 (w) x 6.70 (h) x 1.00 (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

Read an Excerpt

From Face the Fire:

From across the street, he studied Café Book. He should have known Mia would have taken what had been a neglected building and turned it into something lovely, elegant, and productive. The front window held a display of books and potted spring flowers scattered around a lawn chair. Two of her deepest loves, he mused. Books and flowers. She’d used them both in a way that suggested it was time to take a break from the yard work, sit down and enjoy the fruits of the labor with a ride in a story.

He stood where he was, hands in his pockets, until he realized he was procrastinating. There was little more turbulent than Mia Devlin in full temper. He expected her to lash out at him in blistering fury the minute she laid eyes on him again.

And who could blame her?

Then again, he thought with a grin, there was little more arousing than Mia Devlin in full temper. It would be…;entertaining to strike words with her again. Just as it would be satisfying to soothe that temper away.

He crossed the street and opened the door to Café Book. Lulu was behind the counter. He’d have recognized her anywhere. The tiny woman with a gnome’s face almost swallowed up by silver-framed glasses had, essentially, raised Mia.

Because Lulu was ringing up a customer’s purchases, he had a moment to look around the store. The ceiling was pricked with lights for a starry effect and made the prospect of browsing through books a festive one. A cozy seating area was arranged in front of a fireplace with a hearth, scrubbed and polished, used as a haven for more spring flowers.

Glossy blue shelves held books—an impressive array, he reflected as he wandered through, and as eclectic as he would have expected of the proprietor. No one would ever accuse Mia of having a one-track mind. His lips quirked as he saw that other shelves held ritual candles, Tarot cards, runes, statues of faeries, wizards, dragons. An attractive arrangement of another of Mia’s interests, he thought. He’d have expected nothing else there, either.

He plucked a tumbling stone of rose quartz from a bowl, rubbed it between his fingers for good luck. Though he knew better. Before he could replace it, he felt a blast of frigid air. Smiling easily, he turned to face Lulu.

“Always knew you’d come back. Bad pennies always turn up.”

This was his first barrier, the dragon at the gate. “Hello, Lu.”

“Don’t you hello-Lu me, Sam Logan.” She sniffed, skimmed her gaze over him. Sniffed a second time. “You buying that or do I call the sheriff and have you hauled in for shoplifting?”

He laid the stone back in the bowl. “How is Zack?”

“Ask him yourself, I don’t have time to waste on you.” Though he had her by a foot in height, she stepped forward, jabbed her finger at him, and made him feel twelve years old again. “What the hell do you want?”

“To see home. To see Mia.”

“Why don’t you do everybody a favor and go back to where you’ve been gallivanting these past years? New York City, Paris, and oo-la-la. We’ve all done fine without you taking up space on the Sisters.”

“Apparently.” He gave the store another casual look. He wasn’t offended. A dragon, in his mind, was meant to be devoted to its princess. In his memory, Lulu had always been up to the job. “Nice place. I hear the café’s particularly good. And that Zack’s new wife runs it.”

“Your hearing’s just fine. So listen up. Go on and get.”

Not offended, no, but his eyes turned edgy, the green in them deepening. “I came to see Mia.”

“She’s busy. I’ll tell her you stopped by.”

“No, you won’t,” he said quietly. “But she’ll know in any case.”

Even as he spoke, he heard the sound of heels on wood. It could have been a dozen women, descending the curving steps in high heels. But he knew. As his heart stumbled in his chest, he stepped around the bookshelves and saw her just as she made the last turn.

And the look, that one look at her, sliced him into a thousand pieces.

The princess, he thought, had become the queen.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 12, 2011

    Loved all three

    I loved this series, I want more I was a little sad it had to end. I recommend this series if you like to read about friendship, love, and a little paranormal. *****

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  • Posted June 15, 2011

    Fun+read

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  • Posted November 13, 2010

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    After defeating it at least 2 times, the evil that awaits the three sisters is after Mia, who has more to think about now that her ex boyfriend has returned after many years and he wants her back.

    With the return of Sam Logan, Mia has a lot on her mind and both think back to their past and when they were together. This book at times dragged a little but is still a good read. My favorite out of the three would have to be Nell. I don't know if it's just me but did the ending seem a little rushed? Good reads that you'll probably like if you like witches or are a fan of Nora Roberts.

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  • Posted May 18, 2012

    I love this series. Must read if you like intrigue, romance, ac

    I love this series. Must read if you like intrigue, romance, action, and a smatter of paranormal.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 25, 2012

    Awesome series...

    This book was awesome! The whole series was really good. Not the normal kind of books I read but very catchy, by the last book you couldn't wait to see how it was all going to come together

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 21, 2012

    Hunger games

    Its awesome











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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 16, 2012

    :)

    Great book!! :)

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  • Posted January 12, 2012

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    Love this trilogy!

    Love, love, love Nora Roberts novels and this trilogy is one of my favorites! Would recomment to anyone who enjoys a white witch/wiccan story.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2011

    Buy all 3

    Great reads hard to put down

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 3, 2011

    yes

    loved it! very satisfying. read all 3.

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  • Posted May 25, 2011

    Great series

    I enjoyed this book as well as the other two and found it to be a good conclusion for the series. There is some language and sex to be aware of.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 15, 2010

    Face the Fire

    This book is the third in the trilogy and is as good if not better than the first two. It is exciting, offbeat, thrilling, sexy, funny-everything you want in a summertime poolside read or a rainy day curl-up book. I love Nora Roberts and she has once again entertained and enchanted me.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 25, 2009

    I read all 3 of three sisters and liked them

    I have to say the three sisters are my first books I have read of hers but I liked them. Thats why I'm here right now looking to see if I can find any more of her books...

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  • Posted May 8, 2009

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    Fantastic book!

    I have to say I love the whole series. I was not able to put this book down. I wish she would write another book. I would like to know more about what happened with the characters. This was a wonderful story about family, love, and friends. I highly recommend this book.

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  • Posted March 19, 2009

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    Escapism

    I'd been wanting to read this final book in the series, and for the most part wasn't too disappointed. It was fast and exciting, though I felt the ending wasn't wrapped up as well as the others. IMO, anyway, which is what this review is all about. I still enjoyed it, and if you liked the earlier two books you'll definitely want to read this one!

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  • Posted January 15, 2009

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    Face the Fire, The Three Sisters Trilogy book 3

    This is the 3rd book in the 3 Sisters Trilogy. I found it entertaining. It had it's bit of punch to it but perhaps I was expecting more. The love connection is there. Some of us lady's out there wish we could be as strong-willed as our main lady. Loved the new character and his secret to the reader. That was nice. But as I've noticed in some of Nora Roberts books the ending is not all that is cracked up to be. NO offence because I still enjoyed very much reading this book and the two before it. It's a good book to pass the time with. I was hoping that in this trilogy the endings in the book were a bit more dramatic. They just seemed to natural and really with an ease.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 5, 2007

    CAN'T PUT IT DOWN

    This book was amazing. I loved it!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 31, 2006

    AWESOME

    Nora Roberts conclusion in the Three Sisters books was brilliant! I couldnt put it down, nor her others ((Dance Upon the Air/ Heaven and Earth)) Sam Logan is the perfect and only guy for Mia, and I cried, laughed, and my heart simply swarmed with emotions all through this book! It is a must read!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 19, 2006

    I Loved This Series

    I liked the characters in this series and I thought it ended on a very good note. But of the trilogy I like the spunk of Riley the most.

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