The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy

About The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy

The Gallaghers of Ardmore trilogy follows three siblings who run their family's pub in the small seaside village of Ardmore, County Waterford, against a backdrop of Irish folklore made quietly, believably real. Centuries ago, so the story goes, a fairy prince fell in love with a mortal woman and lost her; the resulting curse over Faerie Hill Cottage can only be broken when all three Gallagher children find love of their own. In Jewels of the Sun, American musicologist Jude Murray flees a failed marriage to hole up in that very cottage and finds herself drawn to Aidan Gallagher, the pub's steady, restless elder brother. Tears of the Moon turns to Aidan's dreamy younger brother Shawn, a songwriter lost in his own head, and Brenna O'Toole, the fiercely capable carpenter who has loved him in secret for years. Heart of the Sea closes the trilogy with the Gallaghers' sharp-tongued sister Darcy, who has always wanted to marry money, and Trevor Magee, an Irish-American businessman building a theater in the village while chasing down secrets in his own family's past.

Each novel is a complete, self-contained romance, but the three share the same setting, cast and slow-burn folklore plot -- the fate of the fairy curse only resolves once all three Gallagher siblings have found love. It's a gentler, more atmospheric register than Roberts' romantic-suspense work, closer in tone to a small-town homecoming story than a thriller.