It is always a please to pick up a Nora Roberts and rediscover why she is an excellent author of romantic fiction. HEART OF THE SEA has all of the uusual elements, beautiful people, facinating occupations, story desires, and personal conflict to keep the lovers apart for 369 pages. A great book to take to the beach.
Nash Black, author of Writing as a Small Business and Haints.

The third book of the Ardmore trilogy follows Darcy and her quest for happiness. One of three young Gallaghers, Darcy is the last link to fulfill Carrick's wishes. Will Darcy bring about the rejoining of two lovers, lost in time?
A headstrong, beautiful woman, Darcy has her sights set on the good life and venturing out of Ardmore to realize her dreams. Along the way she discovers so much more than her dreams could ever have encompassed.
With humor and romance and Irish lore, the reader finds the answer to Carrick's and Darcy's futures.

Every time I read this, I think that maybe at previous times, I've misjudged Darcy and so I try to see her in a better light. And every time, I dislike her more than ever.

Nora dropped the poetic/Irish style for this one, and the writing's fine, but that doesn't make up for a thoroughly unlikeable, materialistic heroine.

At the very end, she says she'd have taken Trevor if he didn't have any money, but we see zero evidence of that up until that one statement, and there was plenty of opportunity to show it in her thoughts--we get all sorts of angst from her about having fallen in love before she could manipulate Trevor into falling in love with her, but just saying she's in love doesn't necessarily mean much.

At one point, Trevor describes Darcy as being ambitious, but she's not. She's just greedy. Her entire ambition is to have money and luxuries, preferably by having a man give them to her, and when he gives her the chance to make her own money by singing, she's not sure she wants to do that. GAH.

Add to that the fact that I couldn't see any evidence of why Trevor would fall in love with her, except that he thinks it's cute that she's so openly materialistic.

Once again, neither of them really respects the other.

Perhaps my biggest objection to this book, though, is that the entire message of the book seems to be that it's not shameful to be a golddigger. I disagree.

I still miss the Gallaghers of Ardmore.
I loved every minute of this trilogy.
One of the few series I have read 3 times.
Ms. Roberts did give a special short story to take us into the Gallagher's
future.
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It made me cry.
I wish there was more she could tellm us about them.
I miss them again everytime I finish the series.
And yes it makes me want to go to Ireland.

Wow what fun this Trilogy has been to read. The third book is just as good as the first two. Makes me want to take off to Irland and go looking for fairies and love.