This is three books in one, each book focusing on a sister.
The first sister, Margaret Mary, is a bone-headed, loving, fiery red-headed glass artist who buries her father, deals with an unloving and unrelenting mother and tries her best to find a life and keep her sister Brianna from falling through the cracks. She finds love despite herself, then runs from it terrified of a marriage the same as her parent's disastrous union.

Brianna is cool to Margaret Mary's hot, and with the home she is left, supports herself with a bed and breakfast, thoroughly enjoying playing hostess and homemaker at the same time. Already jilted once, she never expects to find love in the form of a dark, handsome, very moody, passionate border....nor does she expect to find autonomy from a controlling, emotionally draining parent who cares for nothing but to make her daughters as miserable as she is.

The last sister, Shannon, is born in shame. A product of the one true love the Concannon father had, Shannon grows up in the United States, and only knows about her Irish family after Brianna finds out about her from old love letters and invites her to visit. A strong career woman with a love of painting, Shannon escapes a world of painful ghosts and loses her heart to the emerald fields of Ireland and one of its charming, loving farmers.

Anyone who loves good romance in a real world you might almost imagine yourself being in.

The characters in this story are some of the best crafted I have ever seen.

The book ended.

Read it again. So I did.

Summer's coming and we all need a brain break, right?

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