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Romance · 1995 · PG-13

Born in Ice

by Nora Roberts

She'd built her quiet life carefully. An American writer was dismantling it without trying.

Brianna Concannon, the gentle elder sister of the Irish Born trilogy, runs a small bed-and-breakfast in County Clare and dreams of nothing beyond the life she's made — until American mystery writer Grayson Thane arrives and disrupts the careful peace she's built around a long-buried heartbreak. The second novel of Roberts's Irish Born trilogy: warm, atmospheric, and grounded in the landscape of the west of Ireland.

For14+GenreRomanceLength384 pagesRead time~10 hours

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Violence

Barely any

No significant violence; a subplot involving Brianna's missing father adds mild suspense

Language

Barely any

Mild language

Sexual Content

Some

Adult romantic content; a physical relationship develops; not graphically explicit

Substance Use

Barely any

Mild social alcohol use in Irish settings

Emotional Intensity

Some

Moderate; a woman who has spent years giving everyone else what they need, learning to want something for herself

What this book is about

Nora Roberts's Born in Ice is the second Irish Born trilogy novel, following the gentle Brianna Concannon, who runs a small bed-and-breakfast in County Clare and has organized her life around duty — until American mystery writer Grayson Thane arrives and disrupts the careful peace she's built around a buried heartbreak. Roberts brings her characteristic romantic intelligence to the Irish landscape, and Brianna's interior life gives the romance its emotional weight.

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