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Sea Swept (Quinn Brothers of Chesapeake Bay #1)

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A champion boat racer, Cameron Quinn traveled the world spending his winnings on champagne and women. But when his dying father called him home to care for Seth, a troubled young boy not unlike Cameron once was, his life changed overnight...

After years of independence, Cameron had to learn to live with his brothers again, while he struggled with cooking, cleaning, and cari...more

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Published January 1st 1998 by Jove

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Jul 28, 2008 Isis FG rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: romance readers / Nora Roberts fans

Shelves: author-nora-roberts, favs-reread, genre-romance-drama, reviewed, stars-5, favs-all-time

What is it about Nora Roberts' Quinn brothers that makes them so special? They're rough and tumble, they swear a lot, they like to be in charge, they're all good-looking. But I think it's the fact that they were once all troubled boys who were saved by two good people who instilled in them a sense of family, love, and loyalty that lasted even when they were grown and their adopted parents gone.

Sea Swept tells the story of the first of those boys, Cameron. He was the first troubled boy that Ray a...more What is it about Nora Roberts' Quinn brothers that makes them so special? They're rough and tumble, they swear a lot, they like to be in charge, they're all good-looking. But I think it's the fact that they were once all troubled boys who were saved by two good people who instilled in them a sense of family, love, and loyalty that lasted even when they were grown and their adopted parents gone.

Sea Swept tells the story of the first of those boys, Cameron. He was the first troubled boy that Ray and Stella Quinn took in and saved. Now that he's grown, Cam travels the world racing boats, cars, motorcycles, dating models, gambling, and just plain old having a great time. But when his adopted father is in a fatal car accident, he must return to St. Christoper on the Chesapeake Bay where he learns that just before the accident that eventually kills him, Ray Quinn had taken in another troubled boy. A boy with secrets no one but Ray knew, and he's no longer there to answer the Quinn brothers questions.

This book, at least in my opinion, is a quintessential Nora Roberts romance. Great characters, a strong sense of family, and a romance that draws you in and makes you fall in love along with the hero and heroine. I first read this book years ago, but it's one that stands out in my mind and one I like to go back and reread once in a while, especially when I want a great romance and family story.

I love heroes that are rough-edged and Cam is definitely that. He likes to swear, he wears jeans most of the time, wears his hair long. Yet there's something about him that's rather endearing. And the heroine, Anna, is the perfect match for him. She's fiery and passionate and is strong enough to stand up against Cam's Alpha personality. The sparks flow between them from their first meeting.

What I really enjoy about this book, though, is the overall story. Three brothers suddenly find themselves in charge of a damaged 10-year-old boy and it changes all their lives. The story focuses on Cam and Anna, but you still feel like you know everyone else - Ethan, Phillip, Seth. And Ray. Despite the fact that he has a small appearance in the beginning and then dies, Roberts still makes you feel like you know him.

Seth's storyline is wonderfully done. I loved reading the interactions between Cam and Seth, and Seth and everyone else. You really feel the boys pain and just want to hug him and protect him. And the way it's all set up, you can't wait to keep reading the rest of the series to see how everything plays out.

This is just a great romance/people/family story to read. I loved every part of it and it's one that will always be on my keeper shelf.(less)

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Jul 07, 2011 Valerie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-reads, with-review, series, read-more-than-once, favorite-series, adult, favorites, amazing-romance, cont-romance, favorite-heroes, favorite-heroines, courage-hope, blew-me-away, favs-rereads, cheer-me-up, family, favorite-couples

My first book by Nora Roberts was "Vision in White". I actually read the entire series (Bride Quartet) since I bought the 4 books at the same time. I liked it but there was something lacking, something that didn't capture me as other stories do.
I was even reluctant to read Nora Roberts again but she has so many books and she's considered one of the best romance authors, so how could I not give her books another try?
I looked through her series and found the Chesapeake Bay Saga. The summary of S...more

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May 18, 2013 Glamdring rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, 2011, contemporary-romances, multiple-reading, 2013

*Review without spoilers*

“Don’t mix up who I am and what I am,” she told him quietly. “You have to be honest with me, or the rest of it means nothing.”

He was on his knees on the platform as he spoke, using his hands to show her. And still leaving her in the dark.
But it didn’t matter whether she understood the technique he described or not. She understood him. He might not realize it yet, but he had fallen in love with this place, and with the work he would do here.

This was at least my fourth re...more

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May 30, 2011 Fani rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romance-contemporary, audiobooks, tension-free, hero-is-a-rake, heroine-i-wanna-shake-or-slap, heroine-i-disliked, not-my-cuppa, heroine-miss-perfect, lust-at-first-sight, holes-in-plot, cliches-abound, what-does-he-see-in-her, hero-so-besotted-i-will-gag, forgettable

DNF for the second time. At least now I reached almost 90% before giving up:) It's not bad, but I really can't get over the heroine screwing one of her 'cases' -very unprofessional & unethical- and the complete lack of tension between them. Not sexual tension, there was tons of that, but conflict. I mean, it's a story of boy meets girl, girl likes boy, they start dating, having sex and then realizing it was more serious than they first thought. No problems, no big fights, no differences betw...more

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Oct 04, 2010 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, kindle-and-e-reads, bodice-rippers

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Nora is a master at cliched small towns. I love these types of stories!

This is book one in her Chesapeake Bay saga. About three "brothers" who were each adopted during their wild and abused adolescences by Ray and Stella Quinn. They grow up to be respectable, honorable and handsome men. After Ray is in a horrible accident and is on his death bed, he makes the three brothers promise to take in and look after the newest addition to the Quinn family. Seth. A ten year old with a smart mouth and a b...more

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May 06, 2013 Alex Economides rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nora-roberts, authors-p-z, series, romance

I'm going thru yet another Nora Roberts "phase" and reading her books again.

I have always loved this series and Cameron's HEA is one of my favorites. He's just as a fabulous alpha-hero. Playboy boat racer who is suddenly faced with great changes in his life, after his adopted father's death.

Nora Roberts writes the most amazing family sagas and this is one of those. Three troubled teenagers who are adopted by the Quinn's who are having to deal with Seth, who was in the process of being adopted be...more

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Jul 31, 2008 Brenda (b) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recommended to Brenda (b) by: Isis_FG

Shelves: contemporary, romance, 1-print-books, 2-2008-read

I loved this book! I'm glad I decided to read it after seeing Isis_FG's review of it. The interaction between the brothers was wonderful and, in my opinion, made the whole story worthwhile. I felt the romance between Cameron and Anna actually came second place to the story of the Quinn family and that was the perfect way it should be. It's about Cameron finding his true path in life and embracing it. And, of course, he finds love for Anna and Seth too. I'm anxious to read the rest of the series.

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Feb 28, 2010 Jana rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-romance

The main thing I object is, cliché. Am I that stupid? Yes, I am. I really enjoy romances, quick light fix of alpha male and alpha female, just it’s hard to find an intelligent romance. But it is. Most of them are so badly written, that every time when I see so many 5 stars, I think about the readers and the old lady and her cats metaphor. Don't you have any whatsoever criteria if you rate THIS book 5 stars?

Why do they have to be so transparent? Quick fix doesn't necessarily need to be shallow a...more The main thing I object is, cliché. Am I that stupid? Yes, I am. I really enjoy romances, quick light fix of alpha male and alpha female, just it’s hard to find an intelligent romance. But it is. Most of them are so badly written, that every time when I see so many 5 stars, I think about the readers and the old lady and her cats metaphor. Don't you have any whatsoever criteria if you rate THIS book 5 stars?

Why do they have to be so transparent? Quick fix doesn't necessarily need to be shallow as well. I know there are good romantic writers out there, just I haven't had my luck. And because I'm a junkie, I need my fix. So, I settle with everything, anything. Although, Roberts has a reputation as big as ... I don't know what comparison to use. National bank where she keeps her trillions.

The stereotypes were just killing me in this Chesapeake Bay Saga. Starting with the food: all they ate was pizza, meatball subway, lasagna and pasta. Budweiser. Period. They swear, they are gentle, they’re rough and they like their steaks blue rare. And they are all mind loosingly good looking. Like, properly good looking, like you would jump on them straight away. Like a nymphomaniac on a fly.

CAMERON, the oldest adopted brother is speedy, sexy, hands under skirt type of guy, been racing and likes speed, who met stunningly gorgeous almond shaped eye Anna, the Italian social worker. These two are fire, and they remain fire until the end. But, when I was reading their dialogues, it was so predictable. Why do you do that Nora Roberts? New York Times best seller countless times. You? The cats are meowing, sorry, I need to feed them.

Second brother ETHAN is an introverted fisherman, barely speaks, only hangs out with his boat and dog and is in love with Grace, first neighbor, who is sweet and good and peachy peach. PHILLIP, third brother, is an Armani wearing punk, falls in love with BA, MA, PhD psychologist Sybill, who was fucked up, but came to her senses. And the fourth brother SETH, with his upper DC class girlfriend Drusilla. And Seth is like - new Jackson Pollock.

And then Roberts tries to be smart as hell, and she starts writing about Seth's paintings. Because, you know, he’s seen the world. Rome, Cork and Paris. Wow, did you really? Did you really Seth?! Is world really THAT big? Will you tell me about your paintings? Weeeeell, if you wanna know sugar, I’ll tell ya all. When in Rome you’ll call every woman bella and you’ll paint Spanish steps, because you know, when in Rome.... In Paris you’ll paint Eiffel tower, because you know, c’est la vie. And of course in Ireland, all colors are green, and people there are happy, happy happiness all around me people, who only think and talk about leprechauns and they search for lucky shamrocks, because Irish are all ‘away with the fairies’.

And then when you get bored with travelling, you’ll paint a man and his boat aka presenting character's inner disturbances (never seen that coming!), wheat fields during the summer and a little girl with a red balloon in it, and if you are in a special mood, you’ll paint the love of your life, covered with just rose petals. Really Seth, red roses, my favourite flowers are red roses. You just outwit yourself in originality. Let me grab you another Bud and pizza with all the toppings.

Annoying as hell. No, I am annoying as hell. Because you really have to be a dumbass to like it so much to give it more than 2 stars.(less)

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May 21, 2010 Michelle rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance-contemporary, audio, read-in-2010

Ethan, Phillip and Cameron are three brothers, with a troubled past, who were adopted and saved by two people who loved them as their own and gave them a second chance. Now both parents are gone and the brothers are fighting to fulfill their dying fathers last wish, to take care of a boy named Seth. I really enjoyed the interaction between the brothers. It was my favorite part. Their personalities are so very different yet they share such a strong brotherly bond. As for the romance, I thought it...more

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May 11, 2012 Marisa Perdigao rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, library

Adorei sobretudo o quotidiano familiar masculino desta família! É interessante ver o ponto de vista dos homens perante tarefas domésticas. Claro que o romance entre o Cam e a Anna também tem a sua piada, não fossem eles duas pessoas impulsivas!

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Jan 12, 2009 A rated it 5 of 5 stars

This starts off the first of the Chesapeake Bay Series. They are all great books in the series. This one starts off with the first Quinn brother named Cameron. His father had died and he comes home to be with his other brothers who his father and mother had adopted because all of them had been abused by their own parents. Cameron finds that his father had been trying to save a young boy named Seth and they find out that he too was abused and he is his grandson. The next story is Rising Tides whi...more

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Jun 14, 2013 McKaylin Felton rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a sweet novel about a family compiled of waywards that find themselves settling for a life they never thought they'd have or deserve. Three boys who are now grown men, were joined as family through the generosity of the Quinns and become brothers. After the death of both Ray and Stella, the brothers are forced to take on Ray's newest member to their family; Seth. Cameron, Philip and Ethan, must change their lives around in order to become guardians to Seth. This means Cameron must leave...more

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Mar 17, 2013 Mónica Silva rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Este livro deixou-me rendida às capacidades de Nora Roberts para enredar uma estória belíssima com personagens fascinantes e momentos românticos, divertidos e intensos. Neste caso, o registo mantém-se mas a perspetiva é um pouco diferente: a estória centra-se em personagens masculinas: três homens e um rapaz, uma família inconvencional!

Três homens, irmãos mas não de sangue, acolhidos por Stella e Ray Quinn, que lhes proporcionaram um escape...more

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Jan 27, 2013 Estara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ebook, re-read, read-in-2013

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Before the reread I had thought that this was one of the series where NR did not have anything supernatural, but I had forgotten that Ray shows up to talk to each of his boys. I do think it could be just general grief hallucinations, if you wanted to read it that way, because he doesn't give any information to advance the plot, he basically shows up to tell his boys he's proud of them and they should stick together.

Sea Swept (trigger warning for rape, not by the hero)

On the surface of it Cam is...more

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Nov 04, 2012 Kerry rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2006, 9, romance, reread, audiobooks, 2008, 8

ORIGINAL READ: 9/10 (25 September 2006 - 28 September 2006)

Oh, I loved this. It was just the perfect combination of everything for me at just the right time.

Sure, this is a romance, but it is more about family, loyalty and love that just boy meets girl. I love this family and I want to know how things turn out for them next.

Cameron's progression from worldly playboy to a man with a sense of roots and place and family was nicely done - even if it took him a while to realise it, which Anna was a n...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Tempo de Ler rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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No primeiro volume desta maravilhosa saga, a misteriosa e intrigante história de Seth começa a ser introduzida à medida que se desenvolve um outro encontro muito interessante (e cheio de faíscas) entre Cameron Quinn e Anna Spinelli.

De todos os irmãos, Cam é o meu preferido - habituado a viver como quer e bem lhe apetece, rodeando-se de belos carros e belas mulheres a acompanhar, é para ele uma afronta quando se vê de volta à casa dos pais adotivos,...more

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Feb 14, 2012 Alicia Jespersen(orangepeacock313) rated it 2 of 5 stars

I have to start off by saying, Sea Swept was not as good as I had imagined. Not to mention a few people had recommend that I read this book, so I was thinking it was going to be worth my time. But, sadly it was not. The story was just kind of Bla…….. Cameron and Anna meet they fight for Seth, they fall in love. That is pretty much the extent of the story. There was only one part that was a little suspenseful. That hooked me and it lasted only a couple pages. Then the book went back to its origin...more

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Jan 28, 2012 Maria rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: nora-roberts-re-reads, romance

Probably my favorite of Ms. Roberts' trilogies, possibly because I grew up at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, my ancestors came from the Eastern Shore, and so much of what she describes about life on the water rings true. I was particularly impressed by her description of Anna sailing for the first time. Ms. Roberts really catches the wonder and thrill of sailing, something that sticks with you even after years. On this, my third reading, I find the characters just as intriguing and charismatic...more

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Jun 24, 2011 Lady Raven RAVE! rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary-romance, favorite-authors, favorites

this book was just so damn cool! it wasn't one of those mushy, embarrassing type books but was actually most of the time outrageously funny and sweet in a bad-boy way. Cam makes a fabulous romance hero, one of those guys that sweeps a girl off her feet and you can't help but fall in love with him because he's so hot! and i love the dialogue between him and anna and his brothers. in truth, the bottom line: this book was addictive, charming, sexy, and yet sweet in this seductive way. also... i lov...more

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Sep 28, 2010 Jane Stewart rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contempry-romance-with-some-fantasy

Solid, well done romance with good relationship development. Racer gives up the fast life to help a foster child.

REVIEWER’S OPINION:
College professors teaching romance-fiction courses assigned this book to their students (per Romantic Times magazine Sep 2009). For that reason I thought I’d try it. It has a different take on the romance formula which I liked. Many or most romance novels have a tough alpha male, single not wanting to settle down. Then he meets a female he can’t resist, falls in lo...more

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May 19, 2010 Crista rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 4-star, contemporary, series, tear-jerkers

Let me start out by saying that I am not a huge Nora Roberts fan. I know she is one of the queens of romance, so I'm in the minority, but I usually just do not connect with her stories. Sea Swept is definitely an exception to that rule!

This is a book that yes, is a romance...but oh it is really so much more. In some ways this book is equally a romance and a story about "family". It warms the heart AND tickles the funny bone. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

This is Book 1 of a 4 book series. This is Ca...more

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Feb 13, 2010 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romance

Roberts’ characters are instantly likeable, individual, and have complex personalities. While the female characters are invariably intelligent, beautiful and maintain equal partnerships with men, Roberts is especially adept at writing male characters that are both strong and vulnerable. Much of the novel revolves around the interactions of the brothers. Their numerous arguments are realistic and hilarious, but it’s their strong bond as brothers that makes Sea Swept so heart-warming. Even though...more

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Jan 27, 2012 Marianne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: given-away-on-bookmooch

Sea Swept is the first of the Chesapeake Bay series by Nora Roberts. Cameron, Ethan and Phillip Quinn were all adopted by Ray and Stella Quinn as troubled teens. Now their widower father has died in a car accident that some suspect was suicide, leaving behind Seth, a difficult 10-year-old boy who looks remarkably like Ray, and whom he was in the process of adopting. His dying wish was that his three sons bring up Seth as their brother. Social worker Anna Spinelli is determined to realise the bes...more

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Feb 08, 2011 Andrea rated it 4 of 5 stars

Good love story. Interested to see where the rest of the story takes me.

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Jun 13, 2013 Mariazita rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

E iniciei, mais uma das sagas de Nora Roberts, "A Saga da Baía de Chesapeake."
Neste primeiro volume iremos conhecer Cameron, um dos quatro irmãos adotados pelo casal Quinn. Rapazes que eles acolheram das ruas e criaram com muito amor e compreensão pelo que tinham passado na infância, fazendo deles homens fortes e realizados nas suas vida de adultos.
Adorei a leitura deste livro, sempre com um toque mágico, que eu adoro da autora.
Ri-me imenso das picardias entre os très homens e o jovem Seth, o se...more

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Jun 26, 2012 Andrea Hussey rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Nora Roberts’ books have class, sophistication and honorable characters.
And I mean the exact opposite of everything I’ve said.

I absolutely hated his sleezy behavior. He likes “mindless, no-strings sex,” and at the very beginning of the book he’s with this woman who has an accent and speaks quite crudely. He’s calling her sugar and baby and kisses her for the paparazzi, and he had trouble remembering her name. Way to start off a romance book with him about to have sex with someone else.

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Dec 27, 2012 Lydia Perversius rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: chesapeake-bay-saga

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. “You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.”

I thought for sure Nora Roberts was an exceptional writer, one that could make even a sworn cynical bitch like me addicted with romantic stories. Let's take that back and add a hell of a lot more degrees to the statement. The woman's a freaking genius!

The Calhouns introduced me to this amazing world just waiting to be explored. The Bride Quartet showed me I hadn't even scratched the surface. The Chesapeake Bay Saga's first book made me run for a...more “You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.”

I thought for sure Nora Roberts was an exceptional writer, one that could make even a sworn cynical bitch like me addicted with romantic stories. Let's take that back and add a hell of a lot more degrees to the statement. The woman's a freaking genius!

The Calhouns introduced me to this amazing world just waiting to be explored. The Bride Quartet showed me I hadn't even scratched the surface. The Chesapeake Bay Saga's first book made me run for a shovel - and a pickaxe while I was at it - to just speed through the damn shell and find the delicious goodies inside! I dare say the Quinns proved to be one of my favorite teams, right there on the top with the Calhoun women and the wedding planners of Vows - and I've only read the first book!

Raymond Quinn and his wife, Stella, were never able to give birth to children of their own. But life never leaves good people like them high and dry. The two of them raised three boys with loads of problems into fine young men, each with his dream career in success. And now, eight years after Stella's defeat to cancer, Ray's boys are summoned back for a testament to their faith in family bonds. Ray is dying - and fast - but he's not about to leave the new boy he's taken under his wing out on the streets. No, instead he makes his older sons promise to take care of the boy. And once a Quinn gives his word, you can rest assured that he'll keep it.

Cameron Quinn was the first to be taken into the Quinn household as a teen. He had just escaped his alcoholic, abusive father, and was trying to steal Stella's car when Ray caught him red-handed.
“He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.”
Ever since then, he found a home, a family. And now that Ray's death bed wish was for Seth to be taken care of, Cam is willing to put aside his worldwide career in races - no matter how much it pains him to do so - to play nanny for the kid. He doesn't want the system to be playing with his father's new son, though he can only cooperate when Anna Spinelli, Seth's caseworker, is even more stubborn than he is. Anna on her part is willing to fight with all she's got to make sure that Seth is where he truly belongs, but the Quinn brothers - the oldest especially - are really not making her job any easier.

I was used to the female dynamics in Roberts's books by now. But a male team? Well, that was new - and lovelier than I ever thought! It's not so much that Ray's boys are easy to the eye - though it does have its perks. It was more for the fact that they are men - bound to solve almost everything with their fists and with shitloads of swearing at each other, and incapable of even caring for themselves, let alone a kid. The awkwardness was every bit hilarious and adorable. The knew they had to be more careful, and yet they still had their testosterone to defend. They all saw Seth as a brother, though - even if only Cam was able to show it better at first (and by his clumsy efforts, this says a lot). The way they got to involve him later in the story was so cute, and when they defended him in the VP's office I was about to squeal like a fan girl. Their fights seriously were funny as hell, to the point where I wished they had more, and often - Seth with his biting sarcasm, Cam with his fists, Ethan calming the others down by extreme measures, and Phillip acting like a freaking girl all the time!

Cam was...interesting as a character. The whole Alpha male attitude made him look like a testosterone-blinded jerk most of the times, and his thoughts of staying at home as being caged was kinda irritating. But he was the one who was trying the most with Seth, and when he was so worried after stopping Seth's free fall from the roof, it was like he was another person. Just like Anna suspected, he had so much love to give, but held it all in. In a way, he was like an elder version of Seth. I think bonding did both of them good. And the way he was delighted when Anna was hurling things at his head was adorable, and made me giddier than I had been when Mal proposed to Parker in Happy Ever After! Now Anna, as a social worker, was very devoted to her job, not just by duty, but because she wanted to help those kids. It was touching, really. The way she handled everything was to be admired. The only mistake I found in her methods was that she fell way too easily into Cam's way to kiss him.

I'm anxious to pick up Ethan's story. I'm sure he and Grace - cause I'd bet my left hand on them ending up together - will make a cute couple.(less)

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Feb 20, 2012 Carrie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary, audio, read-2012, small-town, soa-listening-challenge-2012, paranormal-elements

SOA Listening Challenge 2012: Spread Your Listening-- Contemporary 2/4

Grade B-/C+

While parts of this book were poignant or humorous, other parts were just slow. I was listening to the audiobook on 2X for part of the book because the story seemed to stand in place, going nowhere. Cam was a mixed bag for me, too. He could be a selfish, arrogant man, who also acted childishly at times. On at least two occasions he did things to hurt Anna, and it infuriated me that she let him wheedle and cajole his...more

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Jun 02, 2013 Carol MacInnis rated it 5 of 5 stars

Ray and Stella Quinn were a happily married couple and when they found a young boy who had clearly been beaten and literally 'thrown away' to fend for himself, they had no alternative but to take him in and care for as their very own. The Quinn's legally adopted Cameron and later on, Ethan and Philip, also physically, sexually and emotionally scarred also became Cameron's legally adopted brothers. With the love and support from Ray and Stella all three brothers overcame their horrific pasts and...more

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Nov 10, 2012 Arttemizza rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: blogroling, leituras-2012

A escrita? É simples mas envolvente, a esritora consegue descrever os ambientes, as emoções de uma maneira tão precisa que parece que tudo se desenrola mesmo à nossa frente.

As personagens? A primeira impressão que tive dos homens da família Quinn foi quando todos eram mais velhos, se não estou em erro talvez uns 20 anos decorridos após esta estória e, na altura adorei a sua união, a sua solidez enquanto família, o amor que tinham uns pelos outros. Foi muito bom “voltar atrás no tempo”, regressar...more

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Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. She was the youngest of the five children, also the only girl, of a marriage with Irish ancestors. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her sopho...more aka
J.D. Robb
Sarah Hardesty

Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. She was the youngest of the five children, also the only girl, of a marriage with Irish ancestors. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her sophomore year in high school, she transferred to a local public school, where she met Ronald Aufdem-Brinke, her future first husband.

In Augusy 17, 1968, as soon as she had graduated from High School, Eleanor married, against her parents' wishes. The marriage settled in Keedysville, Maryland. Her husband worked at his father's sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their lighting company. While, she worked briefly as a legal secretary. "I could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever," she says now. After their sons, Dan and Jason, were born she stayed home. Calling this her "Earth Mother" years, she spent much of her time doing crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children's clothes. The marriage ended separating, and they obtained the divorce in January 1985.

In February 1979, a blizzard in forced her hand to try another creative outlet. She was snowed in with a three and six year old with no kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling supply of chocolate. During the now famous blizzard, she pulled out a pencil and notebook and began to write down one of those stories. It was there that a career was born. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981 as Nora Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson, because she assumed that all authors had pen names.

Eleanor wrote under the pseudonym Jill March a story for a magazine titled "Melodies of Love".

Eleanor met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Her husband owns and operates a bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland called "Turn the Page Books". Since that time, they've expanded their home, traveled the world.

In 1992, she decided adopted other pseudonym so to publish a futuristic-suspense novels, she first decided to use the pseudonym D.J. MacGregor, but she discovered that this pseudonym was used by another author. In 1995, her first "In Death" serial novel was published under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, the initials "J.D." were taken from her sons, Jason and Dan, while "Robb" is a shortened form of Roberts.

Eleanor has also been known as Sara Hardesty, because when the "Born In" series was released in U.K. it carried that name instead of Nora Roberts. She has since changed publishers.

Eleanor has been plagiarized by another best-selling romance writer, Janet Dailey. The practice came to light after a reader read Nora Roberts' "Sweet Revenge" and Janet Dailey's "Notorious" back-to-back; she noticed several similarities and posted the comparable passages on the Internet. Calling the plagiarism "mind rape," Eleanor sued Janet Daily. In 1997, Janet, admitted to repeatedly plagiarizing from Nora Roberts' work, and that both "Aspen Gold" and "Notorious" lifted heavily from Nora Roberts's work. Both of those novels were pulled from print after Janet's admission. She acknowledged the plagiarism and blamed it on a psychological disorder. In a settlement, Janet paid Eleanor an undisclosed sum, which Eleanor donated to the Literacy Volunteers of America.

A founding member of the Romance Writers of America (R.W.A.), she was the first inductee in the organization's Hall of Fame. She also is a member of several writers groups and has won countless awards from her colleagues and the (less)

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