Tears of the moon

In 1999 Nora Roberts wrote the first book in the Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy - Jewels of the Sun. This was followed by Tears of the Moon and Heart of the Sea. I came across Tears of the Moon by accident as I was really looking for a book with the same title by Di Morrissey. Having reserved the Nora Roberts title in error I decided to read it anyway, even though I am not really a fan of Romance novels.

The books are set in Ireland and throughout the three volumes runs the story of a Faerie Prince who has waited three hundred years to remove a curse preventing him from being with the woman he loved. Each of the volumes centres on a member of the Gallagher family as they choose life partners.The main characters are aware of this local story as well as of the ghost who inhabits a cottage owned by the family.

In Tears of the Moon the main characters are musician and co-owner of Gallaghers' pub, Shaun Gallagher, and Brenna O'Toole, a childhood friend who runs a business with her father building and repairing buildings and cars. The story revolves around the development of this unlikely relationship as the characteres eventually realise what they really want from life, often via intervention from the fantasy thread of the story. I would not rule out eventually reading the other volumes in the series - one day.