Nora Roberts (http://www.noraroberts.com/) has been casting a spell over her readers with her mesmerising fiction since the publication of her first novel Irish Thoroughbred in 1981. At the last count her novels number 209. If that is not an endorsement of her success nothing is. The latest, Shadow Spell (Book Two of The Cousins O’Dwyer Trilogy) has a summary as follows. With the legends and lore of Ireland running through his blood, falconer Connor O’Dwyer is proud to call County Mayo home. It’s where his sister, Branna, lives and works, where his cousin, Iona, has found true love, and where his childhood friends form a circle that can’t be broken…Yet this is a circle that is about to be stretched out of shape—by a long-awaited kiss. Meara Quinn is Branna’s best friend, a sister in all but blood. Her and Connor’s paths cross almost daily, as Connor takes tourists on hawk walks and Meara guides them on horseback across the lush countryside. She has the eyes of a gypsy and the body of a goddess…things Connor has always taken for granted—until his brush with death propels them into a quick, hot tangle. Plenty of women have found their way to Connor’s bed, but none to his heart until now. Frustratingly, Meara is okay with just the heat, afraid to lose herself—and their friendship—to something more. But soon, Connor will see the full force and fury of what runs in his blood. And he will need his family and friends around him when his past rolls in like the fog, threatening an end to all he loves…This is fiction which is truly irresistable. Lose yourself in it.
352 pages in Piatkus paperback edition
ISBN 978-0749958626
Nora Roberts