Roberts sets the bar high with the launch of her Dragon Heart Legacy trilogy, a captivating tale that not only vividly showcases her superior storytelling and characterization skills but also brightly illuminates her affinity for all things Irish. In the first book, The Awakening, Breen Kelly has come to Ireland, seeking answers to her family’s mysterious past.

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It’s Keegan who’s at her side when the enemy’s witches, traitorous and power-mad, appear to her in her sleep, practicing black magick, sacrificing the innocent, and plotting a brutal destruction for Breen. Her grandfather, the dark god Odran, has been defeated in his attempt to rule over Talamh, and over Breen—for now. But one day she stumbles upon a shocking discovery: her mother has been hiding an investment account in her name. Now, more than a decade later, she's working at a job she hates and is tired of the life that playing by the rules has dealt her.While putting away the documents, she sees a bank account in her name and realizes that her father, who disappeared when she was 10 years old, has been sending her huge sums of money. She rents a cottage for the summer in Connemara where she begins to dream of a magical place with red dragons. But through it, Breen Siobhan Kelly will take the next step on the journey to becoming all that she was born to be. Keegan, the leader of this alternate world, begins to instruct her on self-defense as others show her the ways of magic.

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Her roommate and best friend, Marco Olsen suggests she do something that she has always dreamed of doing. And where her true destiny lies—through a portal in Galway that takes her to a land of faeries and mermaids, to a man named Keegan, and to the courage in her own heart that will guide her through a powerful, dangerous destiny.

Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth.

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Her grandfather, the outcast god Odran, plots to destroy Talamh—and now all must unite to defeat his dark forces. We get to meet Keegan and Breen’s loving grandmother along with a cast of enchanting folks and creatures. She rededicates herself to writing her stories, and when his duties as taoiseach permit, she is together with Keegan, who has trained her as a warrior and whom she has grown to love. She addresses the fickle nature of man and religion through the Pious, a group that was persecuted but also did “some persecuting of their own. She discovers that her father was the leader of its people, and that she, too, has powers that heretofore have been hidden.With THE AWAKENING, the first book in her Dragon Heart Legacy trilogy, Nora Roberts has created an intricately detailed world that has all the charm and natural beauty of Ireland but is populated by witches, fairies, elves and dragons. It’s also a time for celebrations—of her first Christmas in both Talamh and Ireland, of solstice and weddings and births—and daring to find joy again in the wake of sorrow. The truth is that Breen became a teacher because her mother told her that was all she was capable of doing, and she is miserable. But little does Breen know that when she uses some of the money to journey to Ireland, it will unlock mysteries she couldn’t have imagined.

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Here, she will begin to understand why she kept seeing that silver-haired, elusive man, why she imagined his voice in her head saying Come home, Breen Siobhan. Breen’s grandmother, Marg, who had been a leader herself, comments, “But there are always some, aren’t there, who believe what they believe is the only.

For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don’t hear the god they claim to worship. Breen is surprised to learn that her father who disappeared many years ago has been sending her money. This statement is true not just in this fairy tale land of magical creatures; it is a cruel commentary on our own world.