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Born in Trilogy

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{{Infobox series
| name = Born In Trilogy
| author = Nora Roberts
| pen name =
| number of books = 3
| first book = Born in Fire
| final book = Born in Shame
| publication years = 1994–1996
}}
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (also published as the ''Irish Born Trilogy'') is a book series by Nora Roberts following the three Concannon sisters of County Clare, Ireland.

== Overview ==
The trilogy follows Maggie, Brianna, and Shannon, three sisters connected through their father, Thomas Concannon, as each finds love against the backdrop of the Irish countryside. The books can be read as standalones but share recurring characters and a continuous family timeline across all three.

== Books in the Series ==
{| class="wikitable"
! # !! Title !! Year !! Focus character
|-
| 1 || ''[[Born in Fire]]'' || 1994 || [[Maggie Concannon]]
|-
| 2 || ''[[Born in Ice]]'' || 1995 || [[Brianna Concannon]]
|-
| 3 || ''[[Born in Shame]]'' || 1996 || [[Shannon Bodine]]
|}

== Setting ==
* County Clare, Ireland, primarily the area around the village of Kilmihil
* The Concannon family farmhouse and Brianna's bed-and-breakfast

== Central Family ==
See main article: [[Concannon Family]]

== Central Location ==
* Brianna's bed-and-breakfast, run out of the Concannon family home in Clare

== Series Summary ==
''Born in Fire'' opens with Maggie Concannon, a glassblower whose talent and temper are both inherited from her late father, Tom. Dublin gallery owner Rogan Sweeney recognizes her work and pushes her toward the career — and the relationship — she's resisted. ''Born in Ice'' turns to Maggie's younger sister Brianna, who runs the family bed-and-breakfast and falls for Grayson Thane, an American novelist who arrives to spend the winter writing his next book. ''Born in Shame'' introduces Shannon Bodine, the daughter Tom Concannon had in secret before his death. After her adoptive mother dies, Shannon travels to Clare to meet the family she never knew, and finds a home — and a romance with local veterinarian Murphy Muldoon — she wasn't looking for.

== Themes ==
* Family secrets and legitimacy
* Art and creative identity
* The pull of home and heritage
* Reconciliation between parents and children

== Notes ==
* Also published in omnibus form as ''Irish Born''.
* Tom Concannon, the sisters' father, dies before the events of the first book but remains a central figure through his effect on all three daughters.

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Born in Trilogy

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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a book series by Nora Roberts.

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{{Infobox book
| title = Seduction In Death
| author = Nora Roberts
| pseudonym = J.D. Robb
| publisher = Thorndike Press
| pub_date = 9/01
| format_code = Berkley mm
| isbn10 = 1469276933
| isbn13 = 9782290336120
| series = In Death
| book_number = 13
| preceded_by = Betrayal In Death
| followed_by = Reunion In Death
| cover = Seduction_In_Death_cover.jpg
}}

'''Seduction In Death''' is a novel by [[Nora Roberts]], written under the pseudonym [[J.D. Robb]], first published by Thorndike Press.

== Plot summary ==
From #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb comes a tantalizing novel in the futuristic In Death series, as Detective Eve Dallas searches for a Casanova killer with a deadly appetite for seduction... Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Detective Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed—a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn’t intended to kill her. But now that he had, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt. Or start hunting again…

== Characters ==
* [[Eve Dallas]]
* [[Dante]]

== Setting ==


== Connections ==


== Publication history ==
* Original publication: Thorndike Press, 9/01 (Berkley mm)

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Nora Roberts

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{{Infobox person
| name = Nora Roberts
| image = Nora Roberts author photo.jpg
| birth_name = Eleanor Marie Robertson
| birth_date = October 10, 1950
| birth_place = Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.
| occupation = Novelist
| pseudonyms = J.D. Robb, Jill March, Sarah Hardesty (UK)
| genre = Romance, romantic suspense, police procedural/science fiction
| spouse = Ronald Aufdem-Brinke (m. 1968; div. 1985); Bruce Wilder (m. 1985)
| children = Daniel, Jason
| notableworks = ''In Death'' series, ''Born In'' trilogy, ''Chesapeake Bay'' saga
}}

'''Nora Roberts''' (born '''Eleanor Marie Robertson''' on October 10, 1950, in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American author and one of the best-selling novelists in publishing history, with more than 250 books published and over 400 million copies in print worldwide. She writes contemporary and romantic-suspense novels under her own name, and writes a long-running futuristic police-procedural series, ''In Death'', under the pseudonym '''J.D. Robb'''. Within the Canon of Nora, she is the central author whose catalog — under all of her names — this wiki documents.

== Early life ==
Roberts was born the youngest of five children (and the only girl) to Bernard Edward Robertson and Eleanor Harris Robertson, who co-founded the lighting company R&R Lighting. She grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, attending Catholic schools before graduating from Montgomery Blair High School. She has described her family as avid readers and herself as "an Irishwoman through and through," reflecting her Irish ancestry.

== Path to writing ==
Roberts had no formal writing career before 1979. During a blizzard that February, snowed in with her two young sons, she began writing down a story she had been composing in her head — the manuscript that would eventually become her first published novel. After a string of rejections from Harlequin, the manuscript was picked up by Silhouette Books, a new line formed in part to publish American authors Harlequin had turned down. ''[[Irish Thoroughbred]]'' was published in 1981 under the name "Nora Roberts" — a shortened form of her birth name, chosen because she assumed, as a new author, that all romance writers used pen names.

== Career ==

=== Silhouette and early category romance ===
Between 1982 and 1984, Roberts wrote 23 novels for Silhouette's various imprints (Silhouette Romance, Special Edition, Desire, and Intrigue). In 1985, ''Playing the Odds,'' the first book in her MacGregor family series, became an immediate bestseller.

=== Move to single-title fiction ===
In 1987, Roberts began writing single-title novels for Bantam. In 1992, she moved to Putnam, where she would remain for the rest of her career, writing original hardcovers and paperbacks. Her fourth Putnam hardcover, ''[[Montana Sky]]'' (1996), reached the hardcover bestseller lists and was honored by the Romance Writers of America with its first Centennial Award, marking Roberts' 100th novel.

=== J.D. Robb and the ''In Death'' series ===
In 1995, seeking an outlet for the sheer pace at which she was writing, Roberts launched a futuristic police-procedural series under the pseudonym '''J.D. Robb''' — initials drawn from her sons' names, Jason and Daniel. The first book, ''Naked in Death,'' introduced NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas and the enigmatic Irish-born billionaire Roarke, set in a mid-21st-century New York City. Neither Roberts nor her publisher acknowledged the pseudonym at first, allowing the series to build its own following independent of her name recognition as a romance author.

The ''In Death'' series has gone on to become one of the longest-running series in popular fiction, with dozens of novels and novellas published, and continues today as a flagship of the Canon of Nora catalog.

=== Other pseudonyms ===
Roberts has occasionally published under other names: as '''Jill March''' for a magazine story titled "Melodies of Love," and as '''Sarah Hardesty''' for the UK release of her ''Born In'' trilogy, at her British publisher's request.

== Writing style and themes ==
Roberts is known for grounding romance in relatable, everyday characters rather than glamour, frequently centering self-possessed, capable women. As J.D. Robb, her ''In Death'' novels blend hard-edged police procedural plotting with near-future speculative technology and the long-arc romantic relationship between Dallas and Roarke. She has described her working method as highly disciplined, typically writing several hours a day, five days a week, and completing a novel roughly every forty-five working days.

== Awards and honors ==
* First inductee, Romance Writers of America (RWA) Hall of Fame (1986)
* RWA Lifetime Achievement Award (1997) — renamed the '''RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award''' in 2008 in her honor
* Numerous RITA Awards across categories including romantic suspense and contemporary single title
* Quill Awards recognition, including for ''[[Angels Fall]]'' and ''[[Blue Smoke]]''
* Named one of ''TIME'''s 100 Most Influential People (2007)

== Screen adaptations ==
Several novels have been adapted for television, most extensively by Lifetime Television. In 2007, Lifetime aired four adaptations — ''Angels Fall,'' ''Montana Sky,'' ''Blue Smoke,'' and ''[[Carolina Moon]]'' — marking the first time the network had adapted multiple works by a single author. Four more adaptations followed in 2009: ''[[Northern Lights]],'' ''[[Midnight Bayou]],'' ''[[High Noon]],'' and ''Tribute.''

== Personal life ==
Roberts married her high school sweetheart, Ronald Aufdem-Brinke, in 1968, and the couple settled in Keedysville, Maryland, where she raised their two sons, Daniel and Jason, while working various clerical jobs. The couple divorced in January 1985.

Roberts met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves in her home; the couple married on July 6, 1985. They later opened a bookstore, Turn the Page Bookstore, in Boonsboro, Maryland, and went on to purchase and restore a historic hotel in the town, reopening it as the Inn BoonsBoro in 2009.

== Philanthropy ==
Roberts is a longtime philanthropic supporter of literacy, the arts, and humanitarian causes through the '''Nora Roberts Foundation'''. The foundation also endowed the '''Nora Roberts Center for American Romance''' at McDaniel College, which supports academic scholarship on the romance novel as a literary form.

== See also ==
* [[J.D. Robb]]

== Links ==
* [https://noraroberts.com Official Nora Roberts website]
* [https://jdrobb.com Official J.D. Robb website]
* [https://fallintothestory.com Fall Into The Story — Nora Roberts' official blog]

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