Brilliant!!!!!!, 30 Apr 2008
I am big fan of Nora and this did not let me down really loved it and am now waiting for the next instalment with baited breath.

i want the rest now!!!, 31 Mar 2008
super book, i am a big fan of nora roberts and this book is enthralling, i wish the wait was not so long for the rest in the series. This is darker than NR usually writes but it is excellent!!!! a must read!!!!

Amazing reading, 12 Feb 2008
Every time Nora Roberts amazes me, she has so much imagination.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. It start with three kids unleashing some kind of demon and the rollercoaster starts from there on.
I can't wait for the next book.

Good supernatural romance - good fighting evil., 09 Feb 2008
I liked this book, the first in the new series, much better than the Morrigan's Cross series which in my opinion should have been published as one complete book in three parts, not as three separate books.

The Sign of Seven Trilogy seems to me to be very much like the Key of Knowledge trilogy, minus the faeries, plus a little of the Three Sisters thrown in. Again you have the magic three as in the two other trilogies I mentioned above and three boys as in the Key series (i.e. in the Keys they visit the haunted house when they are boys).

It's a classic tale of good fighting evil. In this case the evil appears to be an ancient satanic daemon. The good being the three ten year old boys (now aged 31) who unwittingly unleash the daemon on the eve of their tenth birthday by combining their blood in a "blood brothers" ritual. Every seven years the evil returns and wrecks havoc on their small town.

However, on the night the daemon was released by the boys, the good witch who ensnared the daemon in the 1600's, under the Pagan Stone, is also unleashed. He alone is not strong enough to stop the daemon, but the descendants of his three sons will be. To that end he endows the boys with strengths i.e. they can't be injured (they reheal after every injury) and never grow ill. Also he endows them each with different psychic powers and three pieces of his magick blood stone. They surmise that if the stone is rejoined then this may stop the evil, but no matter how hard they try over the years it can't be done.

Cal Hawkins and his friend Fox return to Hawkins Hollow after university. However, their third friend Gage leaves the Hollow, where his home life has been unhappy, when he is eighteen. He returns every seven years on the eve of his birthday to help his friends.

Quinn Black is an author who writes about ghostly happenings and the paranormal and she goes to Hawkins Hollow to interview Cal about the happenings in the town. Once there she starts to experience vivid nightmares and sees the daemon in its "human" form. Layla, the second woman, is drawn to Hawkins Hollow by nasty vivid nightmares once there she also sees the daemon.

However, the third woman Cybil is the weak point for me in this first book, almost as if NR needed a third woman so stuck her in. Cybil is a friend of Quinn's and also a psychic. Quinn asks her to come to HH to help research the historical background of the happenings at the Hollow in the 1600's. However, Cybil does not have nightmare dreams etc., as far as I can remember, unless I missed that bit, and is not led to the town like Layla has been.

Of course, the three women each pair up with the three men, as in Key of Knowledge, and their individual 'powers' match.

It is an enjoyable book, if not entirely unique in concept i.e. the Key series and Three Sisters series.

another great novel, 04 Feb 2008
I cannot wait for the next book in the trilogy I have not yet finished only a few chapters to go but had to tell you it is excellent I think Nora is a genius she has a great imagination.athie McDermott

Brilliant!!!!!!, 30 Apr 2008
I am big fan of Nora and this did not let me down really loved it and am now waiting for the next instalment with baited breath.

i want the rest now!!!, 31 Mar 2008
super book, i am a big fan of nora roberts and this book is enthralling, i wish the wait was not so long for the rest in the series. This is darker than NR usually writes but it is excellent!!!! a must read!!!!

Amazing reading, 12 Feb 2008
Every time Nora Roberts amazes me, she has so much imagination.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. It start with three kids unleashing some kind of demon and the rollercoaster starts from there on.
I can't wait for the next book.

Good supernatural romance - good fighting evil., 09 Feb 2008
I liked this book, the first in the new series, much better than the Morrigan's Cross series which in my opinion should have been published as one complete book in three parts, not as three separate books.

The Sign of Seven Trilogy seems to me to be very much like the Key of Knowledge trilogy, minus the faeries, plus a little of the Three Sisters thrown in. Again you have the magic three as in the two other trilogies I mentioned above and three boys as in the Key series (i.e. in the Keys they visit the haunted house when they are boys).

It's a classic tale of good fighting evil. In this case the evil appears to be an ancient satanic daemon. The good being the three ten year old boys (now aged 31) who unwittingly unleash the daemon on the eve of their tenth birthday by combining their blood in a "blood brothers" ritual. Every seven years the evil returns and wrecks havoc on their small town.

However, on the night the daemon was released by the boys, the good witch who ensnared the daemon in the 1600's, under the Pagan Stone, is also unleashed. He alone is not strong enough to stop the daemon, but the descendants of his three sons will be. To that end he endows the boys with strengths i.e. they can't be injured (they reheal after every injury) and never grow ill. Also he endows them each with different psychic powers and three pieces of his magick blood stone. They surmise that if the stone is rejoined then this may stop the evil, but no matter how hard they try over the years it can't be done.

Cal Hawkins and his friend Fox return to Hawkins Hollow after university. However, their third friend Gage leaves the Hollow, where his home life has been unhappy, when he is eighteen. He returns every seven years on the eve of his birthday to help his friends.

Quinn Black is an author who writes about ghostly happenings and the paranormal and she goes to Hawkins Hollow to interview Cal about the happenings in the town. Once there she starts to experience vivid nightmares and sees the daemon in its "human" form. Layla, the second woman, is drawn to Hawkins Hollow by nasty vivid nightmares once there she also sees the daemon.

However, the third woman Cybil is the weak point for me in this first book, almost as if NR needed a third woman so stuck her in. Cybil is a friend of Quinn's and also a psychic. Quinn asks her to come to HH to help research the historical background of the happenings at the Hollow in the 1600's. However, Cybil does not have nightmare dreams etc., as far as I can remember, unless I missed that bit, and is not led to the town like Layla has been.

Of course, the three women each pair up with the three men, as in Key of Knowledge, and their individual 'powers' match.

It is an enjoyable book, if not entirely unique in concept i.e. the Key series and Three Sisters series.

another great novel, 04 Feb 2008
I cannot wait for the next book in the trilogy I have not yet finished only a few chapters to go but had to tell you it is excellent I think Nora is a genius she has a great imagination.athie McDermott

A HOUSE BY THE SEA, 10 Nov 2008
CAROLINE LIVES IN BATH, HER HUSBAND AND HER MUM AND DAD HAVE DIED HER DAUGHTER HAS HER OWN LIFE IN LONDON SO WHAT DID CAROLINE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO, SHE NEEDED SOMETHING SO SHE MOVES TO BRIGHTON TO START A NEW LIFE NEW JOB NEW FRIENDS ETC, I CANT SAY MUCH MORE AS IT WILL RUIN THE STORY BUT IT IS EXCELLENT AND I AM CROSSING MY FINGERS FOR A SEQUAL.

Brilliant!!!!!!, 30 Apr 2008
I am big fan of Nora and this did not let me down really loved it and am now waiting for the next instalment with baited breath.

i want the rest now!!!, 31 Mar 2008
super book, i am a big fan of nora roberts and this book is enthralling, i wish the wait was not so long for the rest in the series. This is darker than NR usually writes but it is excellent!!!! a must read!!!!

Amazing reading, 12 Feb 2008
Every time Nora Roberts amazes me, she has so much imagination.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. It start with three kids unleashing some kind of demon and the rollercoaster starts from there on.
I can't wait for the next book.

Good supernatural romance - good fighting evil., 09 Feb 2008
I liked this book, the first in the new series, much better than the Morrigan's Cross series which in my opinion should have been published as one complete book in three parts, not as three separate books.

The Sign of Seven Trilogy seems to me to be very much like the Key of Knowledge trilogy, minus the faeries, plus a little of the Three Sisters thrown in. Again you have the magic three as in the two other trilogies I mentioned above and three boys as in the Key series (i.e. in the Keys they visit the haunted house when they are boys).

It's a classic tale of good fighting evil. In this case the evil appears to be an ancient satanic daemon. The good being the three ten year old boys (now aged 31) who unwittingly unleash the daemon on the eve of their tenth birthday by combining their blood in a "blood brothers" ritual. Every seven years the evil returns and wrecks havoc on their small town.

However, on the night the daemon was released by the boys, the good witch who ensnared the daemon in the 1600's, under the Pagan Stone, is also unleashed. He alone is not strong enough to stop the daemon, but the descendants of his three sons will be. To that end he endows the boys with strengths i.e. they can't be injured (they reheal after every injury) and never grow ill. Also he endows them each with different psychic powers and three pieces of his magick blood stone. They surmise that if the stone is rejoined then this may stop the evil, but no matter how hard they try over the years it can't be done.

Cal Hawkins and his friend Fox return to Hawkins Hollow after university. However, their third friend Gage leaves the Hollow, where his home life has been unhappy, when he is eighteen. He returns every seven years on the eve of his birthday to help his friends.

Quinn Black is an author who writes about ghostly happenings and the paranormal and she goes to Hawkins Hollow to interview Cal about the happenings in the town. Once there she starts to experience vivid nightmares and sees the daemon in its "human" form. Layla, the second woman, is drawn to Hawkins Hollow by nasty vivid nightmares once there she also sees the daemon.

However, the third woman Cybil is the weak point for me in this first book, almost as if NR needed a third woman so stuck her in. Cybil is a friend of Quinn's and also a psychic. Quinn asks her to come to HH to help research the historical background of the happenings at the Hollow in the 1600's. However, Cybil does not have nightmare dreams etc., as far as I can remember, unless I missed that bit, and is not led to the town like Layla has been.

Of course, the three women each pair up with the three men, as in Key of Knowledge, and their individual 'powers' match.

It is an enjoyable book, if not entirely unique in concept i.e. the Key series and Three Sisters series.

another great novel, 04 Feb 2008
I cannot wait for the next book in the trilogy I have not yet finished only a few chapters to go but had to tell you it is excellent I think Nora is a genius she has a great imagination.athie McDermott

A HOUSE BY THE SEA, 10 Nov 2008
CAROLINE LIVES IN BATH, HER HUSBAND AND HER MUM AND DAD HAVE DIED HER DAUGHTER HAS HER OWN LIFE IN LONDON SO WHAT DID CAROLINE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO, SHE NEEDED SOMETHING SO SHE MOVES TO BRIGHTON TO START A NEW LIFE NEW JOB NEW FRIENDS ETC, I CANT SAY MUCH MORE AS IT WILL RUIN THE STORY BUT IT IS EXCELLENT AND I AM CROSSING MY FINGERS FOR A SEQUAL.

One of her weakest books, 07 Nov 2007
The idea is inplausible, and the characters are forgetable.

It's a book that you'd forget as soon as you put down. I do find that when Ms. Roberts writes about characters and cultures that aren't European, her style suffers as a result.

It's one of the few books by her that I'd never reread.

Set a thief to catch a thief, 13 Mar 2003
Nora Roberts' story is told with a sublime coctail of verve, imagination and the heart warming dash of humour that is her trademark. Romantic suspense at its very best.

Princess Adrianne is the captivating darling of the international jet set. The daughter of a fabulously wealthy Arab playboy prince and a glamorous Hollywood movie star who gave up her career for love, she flits around the world in a glittering social whirl under the full glare of the paparazzi.

Nobody suspects the double life she has led since the age of sixteen, motivated first by sheer desperation but later by the need to exact a very special kind of revenge for the heartbreak and cruelty her mother endured at the hands of her father years ago.

Philip Chamberlain, once the most brilliant and daring jewel thief of them all and now turned advisor to Interpol, is sent to bring to justice a thief known only as the Shadow. This thief, whose robberies are executed with such audacity and panache that they rival even his legendary exploits, arouses the hunter in him and he is determined to find out who is cutting a swathe through the cream of society without leaving a single clue.

As Adrianne moves towards the culmination of her goals so Philip moves relentlessly ever closer to exposing the identity of the Shadow and threatens to bring her plans to nothing.

Time is of the essence and she will not allow herself to be diverted from the path that she has set herself but passion, like danger, has an allure all of its own...

Very good but . . ., 28 Oct 2000
Adrianne, daughter of a fabled Hollywood beauty and an equally fabled Arab King, leads a remarkable double life. The gossip columnists know her as a modern princess. No one knows her as The Shadow, the most extraordinary jewel thief of the decade. She has a secret ambition to carry out the ultimate robbery - a spectacular plan to even a bitter score. The Shadow is intent on justice and sweet revenge. Her secret was her own . . . until Philip, once a renowned thief himself, now the smartest, toughest cop on Interpol's team, closes in for the kill. His only mistake is to fall under Adrianne's seductive spell.

I could not give this book 5 stars, though I thoroughly enjoyed it, because a know a great deal about Muslim life and their culture and, although I allow for the fact that the book was written 10 years ago, Roberts portrayed the Islamic way of life with many inaccuracies. In short it was a completely western way of looking at their culture. However, the relationships between Addy and Philip, and Addy and her mother, were very touching and the storyline was brill. Roberts once again showed her wonderful ability to see and understand her characters souls.

A very good book! Highly recommended!, 06 Oct 1999
It's one of the books i can ever forgetten. I wouldn't mind reading it over and over again. Well done Nora

Romance and revenge!!!!!, 14 Apr 1999
When i first read it in 1995 i didn`t liked the book, but it was very boring on the train so i finished it and in the end i liked it very much and i have read it many times since then.

Brilliant!!!!!!, 30 Apr 2008
I am big fan of Nora and this did not let me down really loved it and am now waiting for the next instalment with baited breath.

i want the rest now!!!, 31 Mar 2008
super book, i am a big fan of nora roberts and this book is enthralling, i wish the wait was not so long for the rest in the series. This is darker than NR usually writes but it is excellent!!!! a must read!!!!

Amazing reading, 12 Feb 2008
Every time Nora Roberts amazes me, she has so much imagination.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. It start with three kids unleashing some kind of demon and the rollercoaster starts from there on.
I can't wait for the next book.

Good supernatural romance - good fighting evil., 09 Feb 2008
I liked this book, the first in the new series, much better than the Morrigan's Cross series which in my opinion should have been published as one complete book in three parts, not as three separate books.

The Sign of Seven Trilogy seems to me to be very much like the Key of Knowledge trilogy, minus the faeries, plus a little of the Three Sisters thrown in. Again you have the magic three as in the two other trilogies I mentioned above and three boys as in the Key series (i.e. in the Keys they visit the haunted house when they are boys).

It's a classic tale of good fighting evil. In this case the evil appears to be an ancient satanic daemon. The good being the three ten year old boys (now aged 31) who unwittingly unleash the daemon on the eve of their tenth birthday by combining their blood in a "blood brothers" ritual. Every seven years the evil returns and wrecks havoc on their small town.

However, on the night the daemon was released by the boys, the good witch who ensnared the daemon in the 1600's, under the Pagan Stone, is also unleashed. He alone is not strong enough to stop the daemon, but the descendants of his three sons will be. To that end he endows the boys with strengths i.e. they can't be injured (they reheal after every injury) and never grow ill. Also he endows them each with different psychic powers and three pieces of his magick blood stone. They surmise that if the stone is rejoined then this may stop the evil, but no matter how hard they try over the years it can't be done.

Cal Hawkins and his friend Fox return to Hawkins Hollow after university. However, their third friend Gage leaves the Hollow, where his home life has been unhappy, when he is eighteen. He returns every seven years on the eve of his birthday to help his friends.

Quinn Black is an author who writes about ghostly happenings and the paranormal and she goes to Hawkins Hollow to interview Cal about the happenings in the town. Once there she starts to experience vivid nightmares and sees the daemon in its "human" form. Layla, the second woman, is drawn to Hawkins Hollow by nasty vivid nightmares once there she also sees the daemon.

However, the third woman Cybil is the weak point for me in this first book, almost as if NR needed a third woman so stuck her in. Cybil is a friend of Quinn's and also a psychic. Quinn asks her to come to HH to help research the historical background of the happenings at the Hollow in the 1600's. However, Cybil does not have nightmare dreams etc., as far as I can remember, unless I missed that bit, and is not led to the town like Layla has been.

Of course, the three women each pair up with the three men, as in Key of Knowledge, and their individual 'powers' match.

It is an enjoyable book, if not entirely unique in concept i.e. the Key series and Three Sisters series.

another great novel, 04 Feb 2008
I cannot wait for the next book in the trilogy I have not yet finished only a few chapters to go but had to tell you it is excellent I think Nora is a genius she has a great imagination.athie McDermott

A HOUSE BY THE SEA, 10 Nov 2008
CAROLINE LIVES IN BATH, HER HUSBAND AND HER MUM AND DAD HAVE DIED HER DAUGHTER HAS HER OWN LIFE IN LONDON SO WHAT DID CAROLINE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO, SHE NEEDED SOMETHING SO SHE MOVES TO BRIGHTON TO START A NEW LIFE NEW JOB NEW FRIENDS ETC, I CANT SAY MUCH MORE AS IT WILL RUIN THE STORY BUT IT IS EXCELLENT AND I AM CROSSING MY FINGERS FOR A SEQUAL.

One of her weakest books, 07 Nov 2007
The idea is inplausible, and the characters are forgetable.

It's a book that you'd forget as soon as you put down. I do find that when Ms. Roberts writes about characters and cultures that aren't European, her style suffers as a result.

It's one of the few books by her that I'd never reread.

Set a thief to catch a thief, 13 Mar 2003
Nora Roberts' story is told with a sublime coctail of verve, imagination and the heart warming dash of humour that is her trademark. Romantic suspense at its very best.

Princess Adrianne is the captivating darling of the international jet set. The daughter of a fabulously wealthy Arab playboy prince and a glamorous Hollywood movie star who gave up her career for love, she flits around the world in a glittering social whirl under the full glare of the paparazzi.

Nobody suspects the double life she has led since the age of sixteen, motivated first by sheer desperation but later by the need to exact a very special kind of revenge for the heartbreak and cruelty her mother endured at the hands of her father years ago.

Philip Chamberlain, once the most brilliant and daring jewel thief of them all and now turned advisor to Interpol, is sent to bring to justice a thief known only as the Shadow. This thief, whose robberies are executed with such audacity and panache that they rival even his legendary exploits, arouses the hunter in him and he is determined to find out who is cutting a swathe through the cream of society without leaving a single clue.

As Adrianne moves towards the culmination of her goals so Philip moves relentlessly ever closer to exposing the identity of the Shadow and threatens to bring her plans to nothing.

Time is of the essence and she will not allow herself to be diverted from the path that she has set herself but passion, like danger, has an allure all of its own...

Very good but . . ., 28 Oct 2000
Adrianne, daughter of a fabled Hollywood beauty and an equally fabled Arab King, leads a remarkable double life. The gossip columnists know her as a modern princess. No one knows her as The Shadow, the most extraordinary jewel thief of the decade. She has a secret ambition to carry out the ultimate robbery - a spectacular plan to even a bitter score. The Shadow is intent on justice and sweet revenge. Her secret was her own . . . until Philip, once a renowned thief himself, now the smartest, toughest cop on Interpol's team, closes in for the kill. His only mistake is to fall under Adrianne's seductive spell.

I could not give this book 5 stars, though I thoroughly enjoyed it, because a know a great deal about Muslim life and their culture and, although I allow for the fact that the book was written 10 years ago, Roberts portrayed the Islamic way of life with many inaccuracies. In short it was a completely western way of looking at their culture. However, the relationships between Addy and Philip, and Addy and her mother, were very touching and the storyline was brill. Roberts once again showed her wonderful ability to see and understand her characters souls.

A very good book! Highly recommended!, 06 Oct 1999
It's one of the books i can ever forgetten. I wouldn't mind reading it over and over again. Well done Nora

Romance and revenge!!!!!, 14 Apr 1999
When i first read it in 1995 i didn`t liked the book, but it was very boring on the train so i finished it and in the end i liked it very much and i have read it many times since then.

Ah, the first trilogy by Ms. Roberts I ever read, 07 Nov 2007
Laura Templeton, on the cusp of her thirtieth birthday finds herself divorced with two girls, battling debts left by her ex husband, and living in the Templeton mansion alone. Her two friends (Margo and Kate) are loved up with their significant others, and once a week, they met up, searching for the coins of Seraphina's chest, a sweet legend and a bond that keeps them true. This is Laura's life, and she's learning to make the best of it, but she's not happy. Not really.

Out of the blue, her brother, Josh requests a favour of her: can she rent stable space to Mick Fury (a childhood friend) for a while? Just until he fixes his stables up, see? Because he lost his in a landslide.

Laura says yes, and meets Mick Fury, and the attraction is instantenous. Mick is mad, bad and dangerous to know, and Laura finds herself swept up in him, but has to deal with her two girls and the emotional storm clouds that threaten to gather.

I recommend this book because it's a great basic, bread-and-butter romance. There is no killer on the loose, no mystical hocus pocus. It's rare that you find romance novels like this nowadays, where the writer trusts the reader to take the characters on board, not needing the ADD of guns and spells and magick. The emotion is so pure at times, it shimmers from the page, and this book is just as good as book one (with Margo).

Well worth the read, highly recommended.

Brilliant!!!!!!, 30 Apr 2008
I am big fan of Nora and this did not let me down really loved it and am now waiting for the next instalment with baited breath.

i want the rest now!!!, 31 Mar 2008
super book, i am a big fan of nora roberts and this book is enthralling, i wish the wait was not so long for the rest in the series. This is darker than NR usually writes but it is excellent!!!! a must read!!!!

Amazing reading, 12 Feb 2008
Every time Nora Roberts amazes me, she has so much imagination.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. It start with three kids unleashing some kind of demon and the rollercoaster starts from there on.
I can't wait for the next book.

Good supernatural romance - good fighting evil., 09 Feb 2008
I liked this book, the first in the new series, much better than the Morrigan's Cross series which in my opinion should have been published as one complete book in three parts, not as three separate books.

The Sign of Seven Trilogy seems to me to be very much like the Key of Knowledge trilogy, minus the faeries, plus a little of the Three Sisters thrown in. Again you have the magic three as in the two other trilogies I mentioned above and three boys as in the Key series (i.e. in the Keys they visit the haunted house when they are boys).

It's a classic tale of good fighting evil. In this case the evil appears to be an ancient satanic daemon. The good being the three ten year old boys (now aged 31) who unwittingly unleash the daemon on the eve of their tenth birthday by combining their blood in a "blood brothers" ritual. Every seven years the evil returns and wrecks havoc on their small town.

However, on the night the daemon was released by the boys, the good witch who ensnared the daemon in the 1600's, under the Pagan Stone, is also unleashed. He alone is not strong enough to stop the daemon, but the descendants of his three sons will be. To that end he endows the boys with strengths i.e. they can't be injured (they reheal after every injury) and never grow ill. Also he endows them each with different psychic powers and three pieces of his magick blood stone. They surmise that if the stone is rejoined then this may stop the evil, but no matter how hard they try over the years it can't be done.

Cal Hawkins and his friend Fox return to Hawkins Hollow after university. However, their third friend Gage leaves the Hollow, where his home life has been unhappy, when he is eighteen. He returns every seven years on the eve of his birthday to help his friends.

Quinn Black is an author who writes about ghostly happenings and the paranormal and she goes to Hawkins Hollow to interview Cal about the happenings in the town. Once there she starts to experience vivid nightmares and sees the daemon in its "human" form. Layla, the second woman, is drawn to Hawkins Hollow by nasty vivid nightmares once there she also sees the daemon.

However, the third woman Cybil is the weak point for me in this first book, almost as if NR needed a third woman so stuck her in. Cybil is a friend of Quinn's and also a psychic. Quinn asks her to come to HH to help research the historical background of the happenings at the Hollow in the 1600's. However, Cybil does not have nightmare dreams etc., as far as I can remember, unless I missed that bit, and is not led to the town like Layla has been.

Of course, the three women each pair up with the three men, as in Key of Knowledge, and their individual 'powers' match.

It is an enjoyable book, if not entirely unique in concept i.e. the Key series and Three Sisters series.

another great novel, 04 Feb 2008
I cannot wait for the next book in the trilogy I have not yet finished only a few chapters to go but had to tell you it is excellent I think Nora is a genius she has a great imagination.athie McDermott

A HOUSE BY THE SEA, 10 Nov 2008
CAROLINE LIVES IN BATH, HER HUSBAND AND HER MUM AND DAD HAVE DIED HER DAUGHTER HAS HER OWN LIFE IN LONDON SO WHAT DID CAROLINE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO, SHE NEEDED SOMETHING SO SHE MOVES TO BRIGHTON TO START A NEW LIFE NEW JOB NEW FRIENDS ETC, I CANT SAY MUCH MORE AS IT WILL RUIN THE STORY BUT IT IS EXCELLENT AND I AM CROSSING MY FINGERS FOR A SEQUAL.

One of her weakest books, 07 Nov 2007
The idea is inplausible, and the characters are forgetable.

It's a book that you'd forget as soon as you put down. I do find that when Ms. Roberts writes about characters and cultures that aren't European, her style suffers as a result.

It's one of the few books by her that I'd never reread.

Set a thief to catch a thief, 13 Mar 2003
Nora Roberts' story is told with a sublime coctail of verve, imagination and the heart warming dash of humour that is her trademark. Romantic suspense at its very best.

Princess Adrianne is the captivating darling of the international jet set. The daughter of a fabulously wealthy Arab playboy prince and a glamorous Hollywood movie star who gave up her career for love, she flits around the world in a glittering social whirl under the full glare of the paparazzi.

Nobody suspects the double life she has led since the age of sixteen, motivated first by sheer desperation but later by the need to exact a very special kind of revenge for the heartbreak and cruelty her mother endured at the hands of her father years ago.

Philip Chamberlain, once the most brilliant and daring jewel thief of them all and now turned advisor to Interpol, is sent to bring to justice a thief known only as the Shadow. This thief, whose robberies are executed with such audacity and panache that they rival even his legendary exploits, arouses the hunter in him and he is determined to find out who is cutting a swathe through the cream of society without leaving a single clue.

As Adrianne moves towards the culmination of her goals so Philip moves relentlessly ever closer to exposing the identity of the Shadow and threatens to bring her plans to nothing.

Time is of the essence and she will not allow herself to be diverted from the path that she has set herself but passion, like danger, has an allure all of its own...

Very good but . . ., 28 Oct 2000
Adrianne, daughter of a fabled Hollywood beauty and an equally fabled Arab King, leads a remarkable double life. The gossip columnists know her as a modern princess. No one knows her as The Shadow, the most extraordinary jewel thief of the decade. She has a secret ambition to carry out the ultimate robbery - a spectacular plan to even a bitter score. The Shadow is intent on justice and sweet revenge. Her secret was her own . . . until Philip, once a renowned thief himself, now the smartest, toughest cop on Interpol's team, closes in for the kill. His only mistake is to fall under Adrianne's seductive spell.

I could not give this book 5 stars, though I thoroughly enjoyed it, because a know a great deal about Muslim life and their culture and, although I allow for the fact that the book was written 10 years ago, Roberts portrayed the Islamic way of life with many inaccuracies. In short it was a completely western way of looking at their culture. However, the relationships between Addy and Philip, and Addy and her mother, were very touching and the storyline was brill. Roberts once again showed her wonderful ability to see and understand her characters souls.

A very good book! Highly recommended!, 06 Oct 1999
It's one of the books i can ever forgetten. I wouldn't mind reading it over and over again. Well done Nora

Romance and revenge!!!!!, 14 Apr 1999
When i first read it in 1995 i didn`t liked the book, but it was very boring on the train so i finished it and in the end i liked it very much and i have read it many times since then.

Ah, the first trilogy by Ms. Roberts I ever read, 07 Nov 2007
Laura Templeton, on the cusp of her thirtieth birthday finds herself divorced with two girls, battling debts left by her ex husband, and living in the Templeton mansion alone. Her two friends (Margo and Kate) are loved up with their significant others, and once a week, they met up, searching for the coins of Seraphina's chest, a sweet legend and a bond that keeps them true. This is Laura's life, and she's learning to make the best of it, but she's not happy. Not really.

Out of the blue, her brother, Josh requests a favour of her: can she rent stable space to Mick Fury (a childhood friend) for a while? Just until he fixes his stables up, see? Because he lost his in a landslide.

Laura says yes, and meets Mick Fury, and the attraction is instantenous. Mick is mad, bad and dangerous to know, and Laura finds herself swept up in him, but has to deal with her two girls and the emotional storm clouds that threaten to gather.

I recommend this book because it's a great basic, bread-and-butter romance. There is no killer on the loose, no mystical hocus pocus. It's rare that you find romance novels like this nowadays, where the writer trusts the reader to take the characters on board, not needing the ADD of guns and spells and magick. The emotion is so pure at times, it shimmers from the page, and this book is just as good as book one (with Margo).

Well worth the read, highly recommended.

I'm not a big fan of Nora Robert's, 26 Feb 2008
but I gave it a try after my husband read it and said he loved it. I'm glad I read Holding the Dream because it was a really good novel. I could not put it down. This book had me on edge and I couldn't help wanting to read more. There were even many times when I actually had in depth conversations with my husband about the book after I had finished it, which is a rarity. If you like books like this I would also suggest reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece - The Fates, which my husband and I also enjoyed very much.

Fantastic, 10 Sep 2007
This was my first NR book. I didn't know it was part of a series before I started reading it, otherwise I would have read Daring to Dream first, but I must say, I really loved it, the characters were so well developped, I felt I could know them and I actually wished Kate and Byron and all the others were real.
After this book I finished the series and I started to reed everything I could put my hands on by NR, both the earlier and latter work. But this one will remain one of my favourites, I think only Three Fates is better.
Of course everyone's entitled to an opinion, but if you can, reed the Dream trilogy,it is weel worth it.

Delectable & satisfying read, what else would you expect!!, 07 Mar 2004
The one thing that I LOVE about trilogies is the continuation of the story and Nora Roberts always delivers! In Holding the Dream, life at Templeton House continues with a new baby on the way and with Laura not only trying to deal with the lose of her husband, but raising her two children as a single mother. We see this all through the eyes of our overworked and undervalued account, Kate. She has a major revelation dropped on her in the first chapter, which throws her emotions in turmoil as she questions her worth. When she is accused of embezzlement and forced to take a leave of absence, she is so stressed that makes herself ill. Luckily for her, the new manager of Templeton Hotel, Byron De Witt, is there to help her get through it.

As in the first novel, Holding the Dream see the development of the characters of Kate, Laura and Margo into strong and successful businesswomen and the love that there share not only with each other, but the men that capture their hearts. Kate is a headstrong, independent women but, for a short while, forgets just who she is and what she has. Fortunately for her, Byron, along with the rest of her family, are there to help her not only find herself, but to discover the woman she has become. An awesome read that will leave you wanting to find out Laura story and complete the journey.

If you have not read Daring to Dream, I strongly recommend that you do before reading Holding the Dream otherwise it will ruin the plot from the first novel.

A definite 5 stars for this book and also for Daring to Dream and the conclusion of the trilogy, Finding the Dream.

An unusual romantic novel, 05 Jan 2000
This is my favourite of the trilogy. I was leant the first one by a friend who reccomended it saying that I had to read it - a far cry from the crime novcls she usuallly leant me. I loved it and then found the rest of the series.

Kate was my favourite character - hard working to the point of collapse and not very good at expressing emotions. I loved the way that when things fell down around her ears she managed to pick herself up and rebuild her life - even if wasn't entirely on purpose!

Brilliant!!!!!!, 30 Apr 2008
I am big fan of Nora and this did not let me down really loved it and am now waiting for the next instalment with baited breath.

i want the rest now!!!, 31 Mar 2008
super book, i am a big fan of nora roberts and this book is enthralling, i wish the wait was not so long for the rest in the series. This is darker than NR usually writes but it is excellent!!!! a must read!!!!

Amazing reading, 12 Feb 2008
Every time Nora Roberts amazes me, she has so much imagination.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. It start with three kids unleashing some kind of demon and the rollercoaster starts from there on.
I can't wait for the next book.

Good supernatural romance - good fighting evil., 09 Feb 2008
I liked this book, the first in the new series, much better than the Morrigan's Cross series which in my opinion should have been published as one complete book in three parts, not as three separate books.

The Sign of Seven Trilogy seems to me to be very much like the Key of Knowledge trilogy, minus the faeries, plus a little of the Three Sisters thrown in. Again you have the magic three as in the two other trilogies I mentioned above and three boys as in the Key series (i.e. in the Keys they visit the haunted house when they are boys).

It's a classic tale of good fighting evil. In this case the evil appears to be an ancient satanic daemon. The good being the three ten year old boys (now aged 31) who unwittingly unleash the daemon on the eve of their tenth birthday by combining their blood in a "blood brothers" ritual. Every seven years the evil returns and wrecks havoc on their small town.

However, on the night the daemon was released by the boys, the good witch who ensnared the daemon in the 1600's, under the Pagan Stone, is also unleashed. He alone is not strong enough to stop the daemon, but the descendants of his three sons will be. To that end he endows the boys with strengths i.e. they can't be injured (they reheal after every injury) and never grow ill. Also he endows them each with different psychic powers and three pieces of his magick blood stone. They surmise that if the stone is rejoined then this may stop the evil, but no matter how hard they try over the years it can't be done.

Cal Hawkins and his friend Fox return to Hawkins Hollow after university. However, their third friend Gage leaves the Hollow, where his home life has been unhappy, when he is eighteen. He returns every seven years on the eve of his birthday to help his friends.

Quinn Black is an author who writes about ghostly happenings and the paranormal and she goes to Hawkins Hollow to interview Cal about the happenings in the town. Once there she starts to experience vivid nightmares and sees the daemon in its "human" form. Layla, the second woman, is drawn to Hawkins Hollow by nasty vivid nightmares once there she also sees the daemon.

However, the third woman Cybil is the weak point for me in this first book, almost as if NR needed a third woman so stuck her in. Cybil is a friend of Quinn's and also a psychic. Quinn asks her to come to HH to help research the historical background of the happenings at the Hollow in the 1600's. However, Cybil does not have nightmare dreams etc., as far as I can remember, unless I missed that bit, and is not led to the town like Layla has been.

Of course, the three women each pair up with the three men, as in Key of Knowledge, and their individual 'powers' match.

It is an enjoyable book, if not entirely unique in concept i.e. the Key series and Three Sisters series.

another great novel, 04 Feb 2008
I cannot wait for the next book in the trilogy I have not yet finished only a few chapters to go but had to tell you it is excellent I think Nora is a genius she has a great imagination.athie McDermott

A HOUSE BY THE SEA, 10 Nov 2008
CAROLINE LIVES IN BATH, HER HUSBAND AND HER MUM AND DAD HAVE DIED HER DAUGHTER HAS HER OWN LIFE IN LONDON SO WHAT DID CAROLINE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO, SHE NEEDED SOMETHING SO SHE MOVES TO BRIGHTON TO START A NEW LIFE NEW JOB NEW FRIENDS ETC, I CANT SAY MUCH MORE AS IT WILL RUIN THE STORY BUT IT IS EXCELLENT AND I AM CROSSING MY FINGERS FOR A SEQUAL.

One of her weakest books, 07 Nov 2007
The idea is inplausible, and the characters are forgetable.

It's a book that you'd forget as soon as you put down. I do find that when Ms. Roberts writes about characters and cultures that aren't European, her style suffers as a result.

It's one of the few books by her that I'd never reread.

Set a thief to catch a thief, 13 Mar 2003
Nora Roberts' story is told with a sublime coctail of verve, imagination and the heart warming dash of humour that is her trademark. Romantic suspense at its very best.

Princess Adrianne is the captivating darling of the international jet set. The daughter of a fabulously wealthy Arab playboy prince and a glamorous Hollywood movie star who gave up her career for love, she flits around the world in a glittering social whirl under the full glare of the paparazzi.

Nobody suspects the double life she has led since the age of sixteen, motivated first by sheer desperation but later by the need to exact a very special kind of revenge for the heartbreak and cruelty her mother endured at the hands of her father years ago.

Philip Chamberlain, once the most brilliant and daring jewel thief of them all and now turned advisor to Interpol, is sent to bring to justice a thief known only as the Shadow. This thief, whose robberies are executed with such audacity and panache that they rival even his legendary exploits, arouses the hunter in him and he is determined to find out who is cutting a swathe through the cream of society without leaving a single clue.

As Adrianne moves towards the culmination of her goals so Philip moves relentlessly ever closer to exposing the identity of the Shadow and threatens to bring her plans to nothing.

Time is of the essence and she will not allow herself to be diverted from the path that she has set herself but passion, like danger, has an allure all of its own...

Very good but . . ., 28 Oct 2000
Adrianne, daughter of a fabled Hollywood beauty and an equally fabled Arab King, leads a remarkable double life. The gossip columnists know her as a modern princess. No one knows her as The Shadow, the most extraordinary jewel thief of the decade. She has a secret ambition to carry out the ultimate robbery - a spectacular plan to even a bitter score. The Shadow is intent on justice and sweet revenge. Her secret was her own . . . until Philip, once a renowned thief himself, now the smartest, toughest cop on Interpol's team, closes in for the kill. His only mistake is to fall under Adrianne's seductive spell.

I could not give this book 5 stars, though I thoroughly enjoyed it, because a know a great deal about Muslim life and their culture and, although I allow for the fact that the book was written 10 years ago, Roberts portrayed the Islamic way of life with many inaccuracies. In short it was a completely western way of looking at their culture. However, the relationships between Addy and Philip, and Addy and her mother, were very touching and the storyline was brill. Roberts once again showed her wonderful ability to see and understand her characters souls.

A very good book! Highly recommended!, 06 Oct 1999
It's one of the books i can ever forgetten. I wouldn't mind reading it over and over again. Well done Nora

Romance and revenge!!!!!, 14 Apr 1999
When i first read it in 1995 i didn`t liked the book, but it was very boring on the train so i finished it and in the end i liked it very much and i have read it many times since then.

Ah, the first trilogy by Ms. Roberts I ever read, 07 Nov 2007
Laura Templeton, on the cusp of her thirtieth birthday finds herself divorced with two girls, battling debts left by her ex husband, and living in the Templeton mansion alone. Her two friends (Margo and Kate) are loved up with their significant others, and once a week, they met up, searching for the coins of Seraphina's chest, a sweet legend and a bond that keeps them true. This is Laura's life, and she's learning to make the best of it, but she's not happy. Not really.

Out of the blue, her brother, Josh requests a favour of her: can she rent stable space to Mick Fury (a childhood friend) for a while? Just until he fixes his stables up, see? Because he lost his in a landslide.

Laura says yes, and meets Mick Fury, and the attraction is instantenous. Mick is mad, bad and dangerous to know, and Laura finds herself swept up in him, but has to deal with her two girls and the emotional storm clouds that threaten to gather.

I recommend this book because it's a great basic, bread-and-butter romance. There is no killer on the loose, no mystical hocus pocus. It's rare that you find romance novels like this nowadays, where the writer trusts the reader to take the characters on board, not needing the ADD of guns and spells and magick. The emotion is so pure at times, it shimmers from the page, and this book is just as good as book one (with Margo).

Well worth the read, highly recommended.

I'm not a big fan of Nora Robert's, 26 Feb 2008
but I gave it a try after my husband read it and said he loved it. I'm glad I read Holding the Dream because it was a really good novel. I could not put it down. This book had me on edge and I couldn't help wanting to read more. There were even many times when I actually had in depth conversations with my husband about the book after I had finished it, which is a rarity. If you like books like this I would also suggest reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece - The Fates, which my husband and I also enjoyed very much.

Fantastic, 10 Sep 2007
This was my first NR book. I didn't know it was part of a series before I started reading it, otherwise I would have read Daring to Dream first, but I must say, I really loved it, the characters were so well developped, I felt I could know them and I actually wished Kate and Byron and all the others were real.
After this book I finished the series and I started to reed everything I could put my hands on by NR, both the earlier and latter work. But this one will remain one of my favourites, I think only Three Fates is better.
Of course everyone's entitled to an opinion, but if you can, reed the Dream trilogy,it is weel worth it.

Delectable & satisfying read, what else would you expect!!, 07 Mar 2004
The one thing that I LOVE about trilogies is the continuation of the story and Nora Roberts always delivers! In Holding the Dream, life at Templeton House continues with a new baby on the way and with Laura not only trying to deal with the lose of her husband, but raising her two children as a single mother. We see this all through the eyes of our overworked and undervalued account, Kate. She has a major revelation dropped on her in the first chapter, which throws her emotions in turmoil as she questions her worth. When she is accused of embezzlement and forced to take a leave of absence, she is so stressed that makes herself ill. Luckily for her, the new manager of Templeton Hotel, Byron De Witt, is there to help her get through it.

As in the first novel, Holding the Dream see the development of the characters of Kate, Laura and Margo into strong and successful businesswomen and the love that there share not only with each other, but the men that capture their hearts. Kate is a headstrong, independent women but, for a short while, forgets just who she is and what she has. Fortunately for her, Byron, along with the rest of her family, are there to help her not only find herself, but to discover the woman she has become. An awesome read that will leave you wanting to find out Laura story and complete the journey.

If you have not read Daring to Dream, I strongly recommend that you do before reading Holding the Dream otherwise it will ruin the plot from the first novel.

A definite 5 stars for this book and also for Daring to Dream and the conclusion of the trilogy, Finding the Dream.

An unusual romantic novel, 05 Jan 2000
This is my favourite of the trilogy. I was leant the first one by a friend who reccomended it saying that I had to read it - a far cry from the crime novcls she usuallly leant me. I loved it and then found the rest of the series.

Kate was my favourite character - hard working to the point of collapse and not very good at expressing emotions. I loved the way that when things fell down around her ears she managed to pick herself up and rebuild her life - even if wasn't entirely on purpose!

Great start to the trilogy, 09 Mar 2008
First of the Templeton Sisters story and its a great one. You will fall in love with Josh and the rest of the family. Great Read.

not 5 stars, 15 Feb 2008
Thought i would get this after all the reveiws had given it 5 stars very dissappointed not a good read at all

Praised be!, 02 Feb 2008
I love this book. From trilogy, this is my favorite. Ever since I bought it a couple of years ago, I've gone back to it again and again. I just can't get enough of it!
While it's true that Margo seems a bit too spoiled and selfish at the beginning, you also come to understand her motivation for using her body--which is her only asset--to create a world for herself. Margo is not all bad. She's caring about her friends, and in her own way, she does things for them. She gives them support, and is there when they need her.

I liked Josh from the beginning. He could easily have been a very snobbish, spoiled person, but he wasn't. He cared very much about his sister and nieces. The good relationship between him and his family was evident, and that clearly says something about him.

Although we don't see much interaction between Margo and Josh, the reader does believe that there is a caring, loving relationship developing between them. Although Josh is a bit too possessive, it's reasonable since he's had to do without Margo for a very long time. Personally, I like them and think that they would be great people to know.

If you like the DREAM series, you may also want to try Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you missed it!

A wonderful beginning to the "Dream" trilogy., 02 Feb 2008
I have to start by saying that I'm a big fan of most of Nora Roberts' trilogies and other groupings of books about families. That said, some are definitely better than others, and for me, this one was one of the best.
"Daring to Dream" is the first of this trilogy about "sisters of the heart" -- three women who grew up together in the same household. Margo Sullivan is the heroine of this tale, and she has spent most of her life trying to shed the "housekeeper's daughter" mantle that she wears with no small chip on her shoulder. She has made a name for herself in modeling and has traveled the world, but when her career falls apart she knows there's only one place she can go, and that's "home".

Many readers who didn't care for this book seem to have felt that Margo was selfish and self-centered. While I agree on the latter, I wouldn't say that she was selfish at all. It was very clear that while she's very "me" oriented, she would have dropped anything at any time to help her friends if they needed her. She's an extremely realistic character, and that means that she is, of course, flawed. Those closest to her are always quick to point out her flaws -- in fact, she often refers to them herself. But her best trait, they agree, is her loyalty, and this makes her the kind of person most people would want as a friend.

I also really enjoyed the love story in this book. Josh Templeton, the "heir apparent" to a hotel fortune and her best friend's brother to boot, isn't at all the spoiled jet-setting playboy that some have said. In fact, he works ultra-hard during the course of the book to prove his own worth, to show that he deserves his success and is not just a trust-fund baby. He was the perfect match for Margo and it was sweeter (and all the more realistic) that he has loved her all his life.

A wonderful beginning to the "Dream" trilogy.


FANTASTIC !!!, 18 Nov 2003
this book is a FANTASTIC one.not just FANTASTIC i think, it's AMAZING, INCREDIBLE !! i fall in love with josh templeton the first time i read this.the problems, frienships,and of course love in this book are so touching. this book is AMAZING !!!

Brilliant!!!!!!, 30 Apr 2008
I am big fan of Nora and this did not let me down really loved it and am now waiting for the next instalment with baited breath.

i want the rest now!!!, 31 Mar 2008
super book, i am a big fan of nora roberts and this book is enthralling, i wish the wait was not so long for the rest in the series. This is darker than NR usually writes but it is excellent!!!! a must read!!!!

Amazing reading, 12 Feb 2008
Every time Nora Roberts amazes me, she has so much imagination.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. It start with three kids unleashing some kind of demon and the rollercoaster starts from there on.
I can't wait for the next book.

Good supernatural romance - good fighting evil., 09 Feb 2008
I liked this book, the first in the new series, much better than the Morrigan's Cross series which in my opinion should have been published as one complete book in three parts, not as three separate books.

The Sign of Seven Trilogy seems to me to be very much like the Key of Knowledge trilogy, minus the faeries, plus a little of the Three Sisters thrown in. Again you have the magic three as in the two other trilogies I mentioned above and three boys as in the Key series (i.e. in the Keys they visit the haunted house when they are boys).

It's a classic tale of good fighting evil. In this case the evil appears to be an ancient satanic daemon. The good being the three ten year old boys (now aged 31) who unwittingly unleash the daemon on the eve of their tenth birthday by combining their blood in a "blood brothers" ritual. Every seven years the evil returns and wrecks havoc on their small town.

However, on the night the daemon was released by the boys, the good witch who ensnared the daemon in the 1600's, under the Pagan Stone, is also unleashed. He alone is not strong enough to stop the daemon, but the descendants of his three sons will be. To that end he endows the boys with strengths i.e. they can't be injured (they reheal after every injury) and never grow ill. Also he endows them each with different psychic powers and three pieces of his magick blood stone. They surmise that if the stone is rejoined then this may stop the evil, but no matter how hard they try over the years it can't be done.

Cal Hawkins and his friend Fox return to Hawkins Hollow after university. However, their third friend Gage leaves the Hollow, where his home life has been unhappy, when he is eighteen. He returns every seven years on the eve of his birthday to help his friends.

Quinn Black is an author who writes about ghostly happenings and the paranormal and she goes to Hawkins Hollow to interview Cal about the happenings in the town. Once there she starts to experience vivid nightmares and sees the daemon in its "human" form. Layla, the second woman, is drawn to Hawkins Hollow by nasty vivid nightmares once there she also sees the daemon.

However, the third woman Cybil is the weak point for me in this first book, almost as if NR needed a third woman so stuck her in. Cybil is a friend of Quinn's and also a psychic. Quinn asks her to come to HH to help research the historical background of the happenings at the Hollow in the 1600's. However, Cybil does not have nightmare dreams etc., as far as I can remember, unless I missed that bit, and is not led to the town like Layla has been.

Of course, the three women each pair up with the three men, as in Key of Knowledge, and their individual 'powers' match.

It is an enjoyable book, if not entirely unique in concept i.e. the Key series and Three Sisters series.

another great novel, 04 Feb 2008
I cannot wait for the next book in the trilogy I have not yet finished only a few chapters to go but had to tell you it is excellent I think Nora is a genius she has a great imagination.athie McDermott

A HOUSE BY THE SEA, 10 Nov 2008
CAROLINE LIVES IN BATH, HER HUSBAND AND HER MUM AND DAD HAVE DIED HER DAUGHTER HAS HER OWN LIFE IN LONDON SO WHAT DID CAROLINE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO, SHE NEEDED SOMETHING SO SHE MOVES TO BRIGHTON TO START A NEW LIFE NEW JOB NEW FRIENDS ETC, I CANT SAY MUCH MORE AS IT WILL RUIN THE STORY BUT IT IS EXCELLENT AND I AM CROSSING MY FINGERS FOR A SEQUAL.

One of her weakest books, 07 Nov 2007
The idea is inplausible, and the characters are forgetable.

It's a book that you'd forget as soon as you put down. I do find that when Ms. Roberts writes about characters and cultures that aren't European, her style suffers as a result.

It's one of the few books by her that I'd never reread.

Set a thief to catch a thief, 13 Mar 2003
Nora Roberts' story is told with a sublime coctail of verve, imagination and the heart warming dash of humour that is her trademark. Romantic suspense at its very best.

Princess Adrianne is the captivating darling of the international jet set. The daughter of a fabulously wealthy Arab playboy prince and a glamorous Hollywood movie star who gave up her career for love, she flits around the world in a glittering social whirl under the full glare of the paparazzi.

Nobody suspects the double life she has led since the age of sixteen, motivated first by sheer desperation but later by the need to exact a very special kind of revenge for the heartbreak and cruelty her mother endured at the hands of her father years ago.

Philip Chamberlain, once the most brilliant and daring jewel thief of them all and now turned advisor to Interpol, is sent to bring to justice a thief known only as the Shadow. This thief, whose robberies are executed with such audacity and panache that they rival even his legendary exploits, arouses the hunter in him and he is determined to find out who is cutting a swathe through the cream of society without leaving a single clue.

As Adrianne moves towards the culmination of her goals so Philip moves relentlessly ever closer to exposing the identity of the Shadow and threatens to bring her plans to nothing.

Time is of the essence and she will not allow herself to be diverted from the path that she has set herself but passion, like danger, has an allure all of its own...

Very good but . . ., 28 Oct 2000
Adrianne, daughter of a fabled Hollywood beauty and an equally fabled Arab King, leads a remarkable double life. The gossip columnists know her as a modern princess. No one knows her as The Shadow, the most extraordinary jewel thief of the decade. She has a secret ambition to carry out the ultimate robbery - a spectacular plan to even a bitter score. The Shadow is intent on justice and sweet revenge. Her secret was her own . . . until Philip, once a renowned thief himself, now the smartest, toughest cop on Interpol's team, closes in for the kill. His only mistake is to fall under Adrianne's seductive spell.

I could not give this book 5 stars, though I thoroughly enjoyed it, because a know a great deal about Muslim life and their culture and, although I allow for the fact that the book was written 10 years ago, Roberts portrayed the Islamic way of life with many inaccuracies. In short it was a completely western way of looking at their culture. However, the relationships between Addy and Philip, and Addy and her mother, were very touching and the storyline was brill. Roberts once again showed her wonderful ability to see and understand her characters souls.

A very good book! Highly recommended!, 06 Oct 1999
It's one of the books i can ever forgetten. I wouldn't mind reading it over and over again. Well done Nora

Romance and revenge!!!!!, 14 Apr 1999
When i first read it in 1995 i didn`t liked the book, but it was very boring on the train so i finished it and in the end i liked it very much and i have read it many times since then.

Ah, the first trilogy by Ms. Roberts I ever read, 07 Nov 2007
Laura Templeton, on the cusp of her thirtieth birthday finds herself divorced with two girls, battling debts left by her ex husband, and living in the Templeton mansion alone. Her two friends (Margo and Kate) are loved up with their significant others, and once a week, they met up, searching for the coins of Seraphina's chest, a sweet legend and a bond that keeps them true. This is Laura's life, and she's learning to make the best of it, but she's not happy. Not really.

Out of the blue, her brother, Josh requests a favour of her: can she rent stable space to Mick Fury (a childhood friend) for a while? Just until he fixes his stables up, see? Because he lost his in a landslide.

Laura says yes, and meets Mick Fury, and the attraction is instantenous. Mick is mad, bad and dangerous to know, and Laura finds herself swept up in him, but has to deal with her two girls and the emotional storm clouds that threaten to gather.

I recommend this book because it's a great basic, bread-and-butter romance. There is no killer on the loose, no mystical hocus pocus. It's rare that you find romance novels like this nowadays, where the writer trusts the reader to take the characters on board, not needing the ADD of guns and spells and magick. The emotion is so pure at times, it shimmers from the page, and this book is just as good as book one (with Margo).

Well worth the read, highly recommended.

I'm not a big fan of Nora Robert's, 26 Feb 2008
but I gave it a try after my husband read it and said he loved it. I'm glad I read Holding the Dream because it was a really good novel. I could not put it down. This book had me on edge and I couldn't help wanting to read more. There were even many times when I actually had in depth conversations with my husband about the book after I had finished it, which is a rarity. If you like books like this I would also suggest reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece - The Fates, which my husband and I also enjoyed very much.

Fantastic, 10 Sep 2007
This was my first NR book. I didn't know it was part of a series before I started reading it, otherwise I would have read Daring to Dream first, but I must say, I really loved it, the characters were so well developped, I felt I could know them and I actually wished Kate and Byron and all the others were real.
After this book I finished the series and I started to reed everything I could put my hands on by NR, both the earlier and latter work. But this one will remain one of my favourites, I think only Three Fates is better.
Of course everyone's entitled to an opinion, but if you can, reed the Dream trilogy,it is weel worth it.

Delectable & satisfying read, what else would you expect!!, 07 Mar 2004
The one thing that I LOVE about trilogies is the continuation of the story and Nora Roberts always delivers! In Holding the Dream, life at Templeton House continues with a new baby on the way and with Laura not only trying to deal with the lose of her husband, but raising her two children as a single mother. We see this all through the eyes of our overworked and undervalued account, Kate. She has a major revelation dropped on her in the first chapter, which throws her emotions in turmoil as she questions her worth. When she is accused of embezzlement and forced to take a leave of absence, she is so stressed that makes herself ill. Luckily for her, the new manager of Templeton Hotel, Byron De Witt, is there to help her get through it.

As in the first novel, Holding the Dream see the development of the characters of Kate, Laura and Margo into strong and successful businesswomen and the love that there share not only with each other, but the men that capture their hearts. Kate is a headstrong, independent women but, for a short while, forgets just who she is and what she has. Fortunately for her, Byron, along with the rest of her family, are there to help her not only find herself, but to discover the woman she has become. An awesome read that will leave you wanting to find out Laura story and complete the journey.

If you have not read Daring to Dream, I strongly recommend that you do before reading Holding the Dream otherwise it will ruin the plot from the first novel.

A definite 5 stars for this book and also for Daring to Dream and the conclusion of the trilogy, Finding the Dream.

An unusual romantic novel, 05 Jan 2000
This is my favourite of the trilogy. I was leant the first one by a friend who reccomended it saying that I had to read it - a far cry from the crime novcls she usuallly leant me. I loved it and then found the rest of the series.

Kate was my favourite character - hard working to the point of collapse and not very good at expressing emotions. I loved the way that when things fell down around her ears she managed to pick herself up and rebuild her life - even if wasn't entirely on purpose!

Great start to the trilogy, 09 Mar 2008
First of the Templeton Sisters story and its a great one. You will fall in love with Josh and the rest of the family. Great Read.

not 5 stars, 15 Feb 2008
Thought i would get this after all the reveiws had given it 5 stars very dissappointed not a good read at all

Praised be!, 02 Feb 2008
I love this book. From trilogy, this is my favorite. Ever since I bought it a couple of years ago, I've gone back to it again and again. I just can't get enough of it!
While it's true that Margo seems a bit too spoiled and selfish at the beginning, you also come to understand her motivation for using her body--which is her only asset--to create a world for herself. Margo is not all bad. She's caring about her friends, and in her own way, she does things for them. She gives them support, and is there when they need her.

I liked Josh from the beginning. He could easily have been a very snobbish, spoiled person, but he wasn't. He cared very much about his sister and nieces. The good relationship between him and his family was evident, and that clearly says something about him.

Although we don't see much interaction between Margo and Josh, the reader does believe that there is a caring, loving relationship developing between them. Although Josh is a bit too possessive, it's reasonable since he's had to do without Margo for a very long time. Personally, I like them and think that they would be great people to know.

If you like the DREAM series, you may also want to try Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you missed it!

A wonderful beginning to the "Dream" trilogy., 02 Feb 2008
I have to start by saying that I'm a big fan of most of Nora Roberts' trilogies and other groupings of books about families. That said, some are definitely better than others, and for me, this one was one of the best.
"Daring to Dream" is the first of this trilogy about "sisters of the heart" -- three women who grew up together in the same household. Margo Sullivan is the heroine of this tale, and she has spent most of her life trying to shed the "housekeeper's daughter" mantle that she wears with no small chip on her shoulder. She has made a name for herself in modeling and has traveled the world, but when her career falls apart she knows there's only one place she can go, and that's "home".

Many readers who didn't care for this book seem to have felt that Margo was selfish and self-centered. While I agree on the latter, I wouldn't say that she was selfish at all. It was very clear that while she's very "me" oriented, she would have dropped anything at any time to help her friends if they needed her. She's an extremely realistic character, and that means that she is, of course, flawed. Those closest to her are always quick to point out her flaws -- in fact, she often refers to them herself. But her best trait, they agree, is her loyalty, and this makes her the kind of person most people would want as a friend.

I also really enjoyed the love story in this book. Josh Templeton, the "heir apparent" to a hotel fortune and her best friend's brother to boot, isn't at all the spoiled jet-setting playboy that some have said. In fact, he works ultra-hard during the course of the book to prove his own worth, to show that he deserves his success and is not just a trust-fund baby. He was the perfect match for Margo and it was sweeter (and all the more realistic) that he has loved her all his life.

A wonderful beginning to the "Dream" trilogy.


FANTASTIC !!!, 18 Nov 2003
this book is a FANTASTIC one.not just FANTASTIC i think, it's AMAZING, INCREDIBLE !! i fall in love with josh templeton the first time i read this.the problems, frienships,and of course love in this book are so touching. this book is AMAZING !!!

Unbelievable, 31 Oct 2008
A very disappointing read. I found Julia's character to be unbelievable as was her relationship with Paul. I enjoy a good romance but this was not it; the passages describing their lovemaking made me cringe. Most of the other characters were stereotypical, lacking depth and originality. The story itself was laughingly melodramatic and it was quite an effort to stick with it to the end. This was not my first Nora Roberts book but I fear it will be my last.

Genuine Lies, 14 Oct 2006
This is possibly the best book I have ever read. Dont even think about it, just buy it. I would love to see this book created as a movie. I think an actress like Shirley Mclane would be perfect as Eve. I could not put this book down until I'd finished, the twists and turns make that impossible.


A must have for your book collection!, 06 Jul 2004
What can I say about this book that is different from what everyone else has said? Nora Roberts' books touch me like no other books could or have, the emotional involvment in them is astounding. Her characters almost seem like real people. This book is one of the many of her books that I've read and like the rest I couldn't put it down until I had finished. There are no words good enough to describe this book. If you've never read any of her books before, read this one. It will ruin you for reading any other author I can assure you. I wish I had even half of her talent for writing stories.
Long may she continue to write!

this is a classic and a must read, 23 Dec 2001
this book is one or should i say the best of nora's book if you have not read this then you need to go out and search for this book i couldn't sleep as i could not put it down it took me a day to read the book

best book ever I lost sleep over it, couldn't put it down, 01 Sep 1999
This book is the best book I've ever read, could not put it down for anything. I am an instant Nora Roberts fan, I have recommended this book to all of my friends, A definite must have

Brilliant!!!!!!, 30 Apr 2008
I am big fan of Nora and this did not let me down really loved it and am now waiting for the next instalment with baited breath.

i want the rest now!!!, 31 Mar 2008
super book, i am a big fan of nora roberts and this book is enthralling, i wish the wait was not so long for the rest in the series. This is darker than NR usually writes but it is excellent!!!! a must read!!!!

Amazing reading, 12 Feb 2008
Every time Nora Roberts amazes me, she has so much imagination.
This book, the first in a trilogy, is once again unputdownable. It start with three kids unleashing some kind of demon and the rollercoaster starts from there on.
I can't wait for the next book.

Good supernatural romance - good fighting evil., 09 Feb 2008
I liked this book, the first in the new series, much better than the Morrigan's Cross series which in my opinion should have been published as one complete book in three parts, not as three separate books.

The Sign of Seven Trilogy seems to me to be very much like the Key of Knowledge trilogy, minus the faeries, plus a little of the Three Sisters thrown in. Again you have the magic three as in the two other trilogies I mentioned above and three boys as in the Key series (i.e. in the Keys they visit the haunted house when they are boys).

It's a classic tale of good fighting evil. In this case the evil appears to be an ancient satanic daemon. The good being the three ten year old boys (now aged 31) who unwittingly unleash the daemon on the eve of their tenth birthday by combining their blood in a "blood brothers" ritual. Every seven years the evil returns and wrecks havoc on their small town.

However, on the night the daemon was released by the boys, the good witch who ensnared the daemon in the 1600's, under the Pagan Stone, is also unleashed. He alone is not strong enough to stop the daemon, but the descendants of his three sons will be. To that end he endows the boys with strengths i.e. they can't be injured (they reheal after every injury) and never grow ill. Also he endows them each with different psychic powers and three pieces of his magick blood stone. They surmise that if the stone is rejoined then this may stop the evil, but no matter how hard they try over the years it can't be done.

Cal Hawkins and his friend Fox return to Hawkins Hollow after university. However, their third friend Gage leaves the Hollow, where his home life has been unhappy, when he is eighteen. He returns every seven years on the eve of his birthday to help his friends.

Quinn Black is an author who writes about ghostly happenings and the paranormal and she goes to Hawkins Hollow to interview Cal about the happenings in the town. Once there she starts to experience vivid nightmares and sees the daemon in its "human" form. Layla, the second woman, is drawn to Hawkins Hollow by nasty vivid nightmares once there she also sees the daemon.

However, the third woman Cybil is the weak point for me in this first book, almost as if NR needed a third woman so stuck her in. Cybil is a friend of Quinn's and also a psychic. Quinn asks her to come to HH to help research the historical background of the happenings at the Hollow in the 1600's. However, Cybil does not have nightmare dreams etc., as far as I can remember, unless I missed that bit, and is not led to the town like Layla has been.

Of course, the three women each pair up with the three men, as in Key of Knowledge, and their individual 'powers' match.

It is an enjoyable book, if not entirely unique in concept i.e. the Key series and Three Sisters series.

another great novel, 04 Feb 2008
I cannot wait for the next book in the trilogy I have not yet finished only a few chapters to go but had to tell you it is excellent I think Nora is a genius she has a great imagination.athie McDermott

A HOUSE BY THE SEA, 10 Nov 2008
CAROLINE LIVES IN BATH, HER HUSBAND AND HER MUM AND DAD HAVE DIED HER DAUGHTER HAS HER OWN LIFE IN LONDON SO WHAT DID CAROLINE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO, SHE NEEDED SOMETHING SO SHE MOVES TO BRIGHTON TO START A NEW LIFE NEW JOB NEW FRIENDS ETC, I CANT SAY MUCH MORE AS IT WILL RUIN THE STORY BUT IT IS EXCELLENT AND I AM CROSSING MY FINGERS FOR A SEQUAL.

One of her weakest books, 07 Nov 2007
The idea is inplausible, and the characters are forgetable.

It's a book that you'd forget as soon as you put down. I do find that when Ms. Roberts writes about characters and cultures that aren't European, her style suffers as a result.

It's one of the few books by her that I'd never reread.

Set a thief to catch a thief, 13 Mar 2003
Nora Roberts' story is told with a sublime coctail of verve, imagination and the heart warming dash of humour that is her trademark. Romantic suspense at its very best.

Princess Adrianne is the captivating darling of the international jet set. The daughter of a fabulously wealthy Arab playboy prince and a glamorous Hollywood movie star who gave up her career for love, she flits around the world in a glittering social whirl under the full glare of the paparazzi.

Nobody suspects the double life she has led since the age of sixteen, motivated first by sheer desperation but later by the need to exact a very special kind of revenge for the heartbreak and cruelty her mother endured at the hands of her father years ago.

Philip Chamberlain, once the most brilliant and daring jewel thief of them all and now turned advisor to Interpol, is sent to bring to justice a thief known only as the Shadow. This thief, whose robberies are executed with such audacity and panache that they rival even his legendary exploits, arouses the hunter in him and he is determined to find out who is cutting a swathe through the cream of society without leaving a single clue.

As Adrianne moves towards the culmination of her goals so Philip moves relentlessly ever closer to exposing the identity of the Shadow and threatens to bring her plans to nothing.

Time is of the essence and she will not allow herself to be diverted from the path that she has set herself but passion, like danger, has an allure all of its own...

Very good but . . ., 28 Oct 2000
Adrianne, daughter of a fabled Hollywood beauty and an equally fabled Arab King, leads a remarkable double life. The gossip columnists know her as a modern princess. No one knows her as The Shadow, the most extraordinary jewel thief of the decade. She has a secret ambition to carry out the ultimate robbery - a spectacular plan to even a bitter score. The Shadow is intent on justice and sweet revenge. Her secret was her own . . . until Philip, once a renowned thief himself, now the smartest, toughest cop on Interpol's team, closes in for the kill. His only mistake is to fall under Adrianne's seductive spell.

I could not give this book 5 stars, though I thoroughly enjoyed it, because a know a great deal about Muslim life and their culture and, although I allow for the fact that the book was written 10 years ago, Roberts portrayed the Islamic way of life with many inaccuracies. In short it was a completely western way of looking at their culture. However, the relationships between Addy and Philip, and Addy and her mother, were very touching and the storyline was brill. Roberts once again showed her wonderful ability to see and understand her characters souls.

A very good book! Highly recommended!, 06 Oct 1999
It's one of the books i can ever forgetten. I wouldn't mind reading it over and over again. Well done Nora

Romance and revenge!!!!!, 14 Apr 1999
When i first read it in 1995 i didn`t liked the book, but it was very boring on the train so i finished it and in the end i liked it very much and i have read it many times since then.

Ah, the first trilogy by Ms. Roberts I ever read, 07 Nov 2007
Laura Templeton, on the cusp of her thirtieth birthday finds herself divorced with two girls, battling debts left by her ex husband, and living in the Templeton mansion alone. Her two friends (Margo and Kate) are loved up with their significant others, and once a week, they met up, searching for the coins of Seraphina's chest, a sweet legend and a bond that keeps them true. This is Laura's life, and she's learning to make the best of it, but she's not happy. Not really.

Out of the blue, her brother, Josh requests a favour of her: can she rent stable space to Mick Fury (a childhood friend) for a while? Just until he fixes his stables up, see? Because he lost his in a landslide.

Laura says yes, and meets Mick Fury, and the attraction is instantenous. Mick is mad, bad and dangerous to know, and Laura finds herself swept up in him, but has to deal with her two girls and the emotional storm clouds that threaten to gather.

I recommend this book because it's a great basic, bread-and-butter romance. There is no killer on the loose, no mystical hocus pocus. It's rare that you find romance novels like this nowadays, where the writer trusts the reader to take the characters on board, not needing the ADD of guns and spells and magick. The emotion is so pure at times, it shimmers from the page, and this book is just as good as book one (with Margo).

Well worth the read, highly recommended.

I'm not a big fan of Nora Robert's, 26 Feb 2008
but I gave it a try after my husband read it and said he loved it. I'm glad I read Holding the Dream because it was a really good novel. I could not put it down. This book had me on edge and I couldn't help wanting to read more. There were even many times when I actually had in depth conversations with my husband about the book after I had finished it, which is a rarity. If you like books like this I would also suggest reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece - The Fates, which my husband and I also enjoyed very much.

Fantastic, 10 Sep 2007
This was my first NR book. I didn't know it was part of a series before I started reading it, otherwise I would have read Daring to Dream first, but I must say, I really loved it, the characters were so well developped, I felt I could know them and I actually wished Kate and Byron and all the others were real.
After this book I finished the series and I started to reed everything I could put my hands on by NR, both the earlier and latter work. But this one will remain one of my favourites, I think only Three Fates is better.
Of course everyone's entitled to an opinion, but if you can, reed the Dream trilogy,it is weel worth it.

Delectable & satisfying read, what else would you expect!!, 07 Mar 2004
The one thing that I LOVE about trilogies is the continuation of the story and Nora Roberts always delivers! In Holding the Dream, life at Templeton House continues with a new baby on the way and with Laura not only trying to deal with the lose of her husband, but raising her two children as a single mother. We see this all through the eyes of our overworked and undervalued account, Kate. She has a major revelation dropped on her in the first chapter, which throws her emotions in turmoil as she questions her worth. When she is accused of embezzlement and forced to take a leave of absence, she is so stressed that makes herself ill. Luckily for her, the new manager of Templeton Hotel, Byron De Witt, is there to help her get through it.

As in the first novel, Holding the Dream see the development of the characters of Kate, Laura and Margo into strong and successful businesswomen and the love that there share not only with each other, but the men that capture their hearts. Kate is a headstrong, independent women but, for a short while, forgets just who she is and what she has. Fortunately for her, Byron, along with the rest of her family, are there to help her not only find herself, but to discover the woman she has become. An awesome read that will leave you wanting to find out Laura story and complete the journey.

If you have not read Daring to Dream, I strongly recommend that you do before reading Holding the Dream otherwise it will ruin the plot from the first novel.

A definite 5 stars for this book and also for Daring to Dream and the conclusion of the trilogy, Finding the Dream.

An unusual romantic novel, 05 Jan 2000
This is my favourite of the trilogy. I was leant the first one by a friend who reccomended it saying that I had to read it - a far cry from the crime novcls she usuallly leant me. I loved it and then found the rest of the series.

Kate was my favourite character - hard working to the point of collapse and not very good at expressing emotions. I loved the way that when things fell down around her ears she managed to pick herself up and rebuild her life - even if wasn't entirely on purpose!

Great start to the trilogy, 09 Mar 2008
First of the Templeton Sisters story and its a great one. You will fall in love with Josh and the rest of the family. Great Read.

not 5 stars, 15 Feb 2008
Thought i would get this after all the reveiws had given it 5 stars very dissappointed not a good read at all

Praised be!, 02 Feb 2008
I love this book. From trilogy, this is my favorite. Ever since I bought it a couple of years ago, I've gone back to it again and again. I just can't get enough of it!
While it's true that Margo seems a bit too spoiled and selfish at the beginning, you also come to understand her motivation for using her body--which is her only asset--to create a world for herself. Margo is not all bad. She's caring about her friends, and in her own way, she does things for them. She gives them support, and is there when they need her.

I liked Josh from the beginning. He could easily have been a very snobbish, spoiled person, but he wasn't. He cared very much about his sister and nieces. The good relationship between him and his family was evident, and that clearly says something about him.

Although we don't see much interaction between Margo and Josh, the reader does believe that there is a caring, loving relationship developing between