title: Born in Fire (Irish Born Trilogy)
author:  Nora Roberts 
description: "America's favorite writer." <i>The New Yorker</i><br /><br /> Make room on the keeper shelf. Nora Roberts has delivered a winner."<i>The Romance Reader</i><br /><br /> The attraction that springs up between this unlikely pair is both believable and compelling, thanks to Roberts skillful character developmentThe conflicts Maggie and Rogan face are refreshingly realistic and the characters themselves, well-rounded and likable, will keep readers engaged.<i>Publishers Weekly</i>
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  Born in Ice
  
  
  Nora Roberts
  
  
    
  
  
  Born In Trilogy - book 2
  
  
    
  
  
  Prologue
  
  
    
  
  
  The wild wind raced cursing across the Atlantic and pounded its fists over the
  fields of the west counties. Hard, needlepoint bullets of rain beat on the
  ground and sliced through a man's flesh to batter his bones. Flowers that had
  bloomed brilliantly from spring through autumn blackened under the killing
  frost.
  
  
    
  
  
  In cottages and pubs, people gathered around fires and talked of their farms
  and their roofs, the loved ones who had emigrated to Germany or the States. It
  hardly mattered whether they had left the day before, or a generation. Ireland
  was losing its people, as it had all but lost its language.
  
  
    
  
  
  There was occasional talk about The Troubles, that endless war in the north.
  But Belfast was far from the village of Kilmilhil, in miles, and in emotion.
  People worried more about their crops, their animals, and the weddings and
  wakes that would come