Guest Post: Sheila the Housekeeper

I am currently buried under family members, food, festival, and fun, so some kind bloggers have graciously agreed to guest post here on eclectic / eccentric.

Today, the lovely Sheila of Book Journey gets romantic with us, discussing a Nora Roberts' trilogy that I adored.

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Housekeeping! 

Hi everyone!  It’s me, Sheila from Book Journey!  Our lovely hostess Trisha is taking a little family time and I have agreed to stop in and do a little housekeeping (blogkeeping?) while she is away.  You know, watering plants, dusting off the posts…. And maybe – if we don’t tell her –

A little nosing around.  ;)

Looking through Trisha’s past reads I see has read a lot of Nora Roberts a few years back.  Nora Roberts wrote a set of books that to this day are on my HIGHLY RECOMMENDED list.  Seriously.

The trilogy is the Three Sisters Trilogy and starts out with Dance Upon The Air.  In this book, we meet Nell, Nell is married to a man that people admire and envy her for her role as wife.  What they do not know, is Nell’s husbands has an incredible temper and takes to abusing Nell if he feels she did not act the way he wished her too.  (I know, I wanted to kill him too!)

Anyway, without giving away too much, Nell escapes this marriage and finds herself hiding on Three Sisters Island.  Unknown to her is that the island is known for its history of witchcraft and on this island Nell will soon meet Mia, the gorgeous bookstore owner with a little lunch bar in the loft that Nell starts working at.  Mia has powers handed down to her from her ancestors and she embraces these powers.

Then there is Ripley.  Ripley is a local police officer on the island.  She also has powers but hates that she has inherited them and refuses to even acknowledge them.  Until, she has to.

As the story goes on, Mia who has a strong sense of the island noticed something had changed once Nell came to them and she is pretty sure that something is Nell herself.  History says that it will be three who have the powers of the island and Mia believes that they just found the missing piece in Nell.

I am probably not doing the story justice, but trust me – these books are wonderful and I try to read them every few years just to take me back to that magical time on Three Sisters Island. 

The other two books in the trilogy are Heaven and Earth (Ripley’s story) and Face The Fire (Mia’s story and the final conclusion as the evil on the island comes full force). 

This to me is Nora at her finest and she brings paranormal into her books before paranormal was cool.  Ahead of her time!

So that’s my time.  I would love to hear what books really have stayed with you through the years.