The Dragon Heart Legacy

About The Dragon Heart Legacy

The Dragon Heart Legacy is Nora Roberts' full commitment to epic secondary-world fantasy, following Breen Siobhan Kelly, an ordinary Philadelphia woman who discovers her estranged father left her a fortune -- and a bloodline she never knew about. In The Awakening, Breen uses the money to travel to Ireland, where she finds a hidden portal into Talamh, a magical realm of witches, faeries and gods that split from the human world centuries ago to protect its magic. There she learns she is Wise (a witch), Sidhe (fae) and descended from a god, awakens dormant powers of her own, and is swept into Talamh's long war against her own grandfather, the exiled dark god Odran. The Becoming picks up immediately after, as Breen -- joined by her best friend Marco, who leapt through the portal after her -- deepens her training and her ties to Talamh while Odran's forces gather for a final assault. The Choice concludes the trilogy in the aftermath of that battle, as Breen balances her double life between modern Ireland and Talamh, completes her training in advanced magic under her grandmother Marg, and faces the decisions that will determine which world she ultimately belongs to.

Unlike Roberts' romantic-suspense standalones, this is a continuous, plot-driven fantasy saga -- one story told across three books, complete with dragons, a coming-of-age arc, and a slow-building romance alongside the world-building.