Born In Trilogy

About the Born In Trilogy series

The Born In Trilogy follows three Concannon sisters running a family glass-blowing studio in the west of Ireland, each navigating a different kind of love against the backdrop of the family's art and the rugged Clare countryside. Born in Fire centers on Margaret Mary "Maggie" Concannon, a fiercely independent, temperamental glass artist, and her clashing, passionate romance with Rogan Sweeney, the polished Dublin gallery owner who wants to represent her work — and her. Born in Ice turns to Brianna, the steady sister who runs the family's bed-and-breakfast, and her guarded romance with Grayson Thane, a globe-trotting American thriller writer who checks in as a guest and stays far longer than planned. Born in Shame completes the trilogy with Shannon Bodine, the sisters' American half-sister, who travels to Ireland after their late father's will reveals her existence, and falls for local veterinarian Murphy Muldoon while discovering the family and heritage she never knew.

The trilogy's throughline is the Concannon sisters' complicated late father, whose secrets — including Shannon's very existence — surface gradually across all three books, giving the family reunion at the heart of Born in Shame real emotional weight built up over the earlier two novels.

How to read this series

Read in publication order — Born in Fire, Born in Ice, Born in Shame — the three Concannon sisters and their family's secrets, including the revelation that leads to Born in Shame, unfold across the trilogy in sequence. Each book is a self-contained romance, but the family history connecting all three sisters is set up gradually, so reading in order gives the fullest payoff, especially for Shannon's story in the final book.