It's been years since I read anything by Nora Roberts and I had forgotten how swept up in her stories I always get. Even when I know each story follows the same formula... girl meets boy, girl falls in love with boy, boy and girl have misunderstanding, boy and girl end up living happily ever after... Roberts makes her characters interesting enough, and the story compelling enough, that I don't even care about that. I get wrapped up in the whole story, in all the little details, and it makes every story new and exciting. I particularly love when she writes about families as in this trilogy.