Born in Shame

Nora Roberts

Jan 1996 · Irish Born Trilogy Book 3 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the final novel in the Irish Born Trilogy—following Born in Fire and Born in Ice.

Shannon Bodine’s life revolves around her job as a graphic artist at a New York ad agency. But her world turns upside down when she learns the identity of her real father: Thomas Concannon.

Obeying her late mother’s wishes, Shannon reluctantly travels to County Clare. There, amid the lush landscape steeped in legend, she meets her half sisters and their families, but she’s wary of opening her heart to them—or to their charming neighbor…

Murphy Muldoon is a successful farmer and horse breeder with a romantic streak that can turn the most trite sentiment into poetry. Soon, his striking good looks and unpretentious ways have Shannon discovering the possibility of a love that was meant to be.

Don't miss the other books in the Irish Born Trilogy
Born in Fire
Born in Ice 

Ratings and reviews

Nora Roberts has ruined love for me; completely untarnished the possibility that true love is even possible to find in our hateful, modern, technological, shallow culture. Once upon a time, true love existed. Books have been written about it, songs have been sung about it, even some semi decent films have been made to convince us that once it did indeed exist But now all we have are our illusions. Our jobs, our phones, our televisions, our schedules, our "partners" and our "children" who are just another notch on our daily list of illusions. The majority of us will live life completely asleep. I will never forgive Nora for making me believe in true love. Nor for breaking my heart with the reminder that I'm living in the wrong place and the wrong time. What a wonderful dream, was this book. So much so that having to wake up to mediocre reality only made me wish to dream again. Warning: do not read if you do not believe in true love. Nora will rip that illusion right out of you.

I loved all three of these books..I just wish she had finished with an epilog to finish the stories. felt like there should have been more closure. I guess reading about the after instead of using my imagination works better for me.

The dreams and analogies were too hard to follow. Even at the end I could not understand what the dreams had to do with them.

About the author

Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J. D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.