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Three Fates
Three Fates
Author: Nora Roberts
ISBN-13: 9781587886942
ISBN-10: 1587886944
Publication Date: 4/1/2002
Edition: Unabridged
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Unabridged Library Edition
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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VictoriasMom avatar reviewed Three Fates on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I have been reading Nora Roberts for YEARS. I love her writing, all of it. There are some I like better than others but I always like the story.

Three Fates, in my opinion is BY FAR her best single title ever. It is lovely and funny and sad WOW! I just reread it for about the bazillionth time and it once again jumps out as my favorite.

I love her series and trilogies and have a few of them as my favs...but for single titles this one is it for me.

If you haven't read it yet, give yourself a treat and try it now. If you like Nora you will not be disappointed!!

Happy reading,
Karin M.

"There is no such thing as 'too many' books. Someone has to own them and it might as well be us." Nora Roberts
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Helpful Score: 3
This is my favorite NR book to date!!! I'm only listing it because I have 2 copies!! I am hoping she will write a sequel to it!!!!
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Helpful Score: 3
I bought this book for just something to read on a long flight but I could not put it down!!! Its a modern day treasure hunt with a evil villian and of course ... romance!!! If you read this book and like it I suggest you read "Hot Ice" by Nora Roberts and "The Book of Seven Delights" by Betina Krahn.
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Helpful Score: 2
This book as absolutely charming, exciting, and very funny.

The book starts out with Malachi and Tia.

Malachi is the oldest brother of an Irish family. His family has a legendary story from a great-great grandfather, who had brought a silver Fate statue into their family. However, he knows there are two others. So he tracks down someone, who is somewhat unsuspecting to his intentions for information.

Tia is totally clueless, and very adorable. She's a book writer, and studies in the greek mythology. She's kinda kookie, and she's not sure how much she can trust Malachi. She needs plenty of advice from lawyer and hairdresser to help her see things clearly. She also has this goofy attribute from her mother; she's very obsessive compulsive with the maniacal many diseases that her mother has instituted in her to plague her mind.

There are also secondary stories intermixing: With Gideon, the second brother and an exotic dancer running through Rome and being chased around New York. And also Rebecca, the younger sister gets pulled into the mix with a wealthy New York security executive, who also collects sculpted art and has a personal interest in the Fates.
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Helpful Score: 1
Good fast read with romance and mystery.
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Helpful Score: 1
I loved this book. Especially since it is in cassette form. I was able to listen to it while traveling back and fourth between home and work.
Very intertwined story. Good plot. Very nice ending. Highly recommended!!!
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Liked the Book, good read
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Helpful Score: 1
Easy read!
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Another great book by Nora Roberts. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with her!
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Helpful Score: 1
I really enjoyed this book. Liked it so much, I got it in hardback!

This is 1 story about 2 brothers and a sister and the figurines of the 3 fates. If you like Nora Roberts Trilogy Books, you will enjoy this one. It was like 3 books in 1. There was plenty of globe hopping from Ireland, to New York to Greece. Parts of the story are contrived, but you are so caught up in the story, you won't notice till much later on. Overall, it is definately a keeper.
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Anything written by Nora Roberts is another great read.
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Excellent Nora Roberts book with a good combination of adventure and romance. Loved
this book.
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When the Lusitania sank, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief - but keeping the small silver statue he lifted, a family heirloom to future generations. Now, nearly a century later, that priceless heirloom, one of a long separated set of three has been stolen. And Malachi, Gideon and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover the treasure, reunite the three fates and make their fortune as their quest takes them from their home in Ireland to Helsinki, Prague and New York.
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Romantic suspense covering two generations.
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Very good

When the Lusitania sank, one survivor become a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief-but keeping the small silver statue he lifed, a family heirloom to future generations. Now, nearly a century later, that pricless heirloom, one of a long-separated set of three, has beenstolen. And Malachi, Gideon, & Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover their great-great-grandfather's treasure, reunite the Three Fates, and make their fortune.
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When the Lusitania sank, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief-but keeping the small silver statue he lifted, a family heirloom to future generations. Now, nearly a century later, that priceless heirloom, one of a long-separated set of three, has been stolen. And Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover their great-great-grandfather's treasure, reunite the Three Fates, and make their fortune.
The quest will take them from their home in Ireland to Helsinki, Prague, and New York, where they will meet a brilliant scholar who will aid them in their hunt-and an ambitious woman who will stop at nothing to acquire the Fates...
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Great read! Nora Roberts always entertains!
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intrique suspense fast paced
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High adventures, scandals, murders,fraud, a action packed book with the twist that fate sets in all our lives but this time its just a bigger portion of the whole picture, what will fate bring you!!

Good Read!!!
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Nora Roberts is one of my favorite authors. This was one of her better books. I read it in a couple of days.
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Mystery, romance & danger.
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Satisfying, intriguing and romantic..The characters are all different and all likable...You'll become caught up in their lives, their antics and their emotions and will miss them when they are gone...
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Fun and interestingly complex treasure hunt, of sorts. Clever plotting. Another Nora Roberts GREAT book!
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Mary be Roberts Best Book.
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Impossible to put down!
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I am a huge Roberts fan and this book didn't fail me!!! As always her characters are believable, and keep you turning pages!!
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When the Lusitania sank, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his petty theif lifestyle but keeping a small silver statue he had stolen, to become a family heirloom for his future generations. When it is stolen the three siblings are determined to recover the treasure.
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Good book! Loved it, as I do all Nora Roberts books.
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This was my first Nora Roberts book (I read it in 2003)and I loved it! It certainly made me want to read more of her books.
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Nora Roberts does it again. Great suspense, love story of two brothers and a sister and a statue of great importance.
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Another great Nora Roberts books. A good read.
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Unabridged on 10 cassettes.
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Awesome book! Definitely a keeper and one I will enjoy reading over and over.
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A great read and mystery. Published in 2003, it's one of Nora's best. A classic. I've read this novel several times over the years, as it takes you on a great ride in intrigue over several decades, interesting characters, with romance thrown in. But mostly, it's the author's way of writing that captivates you, and you "fall into the story."

Recommend highly
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very good
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this book has some unexpected twists and turns.enjoyed it very much
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This is a pretty good book - I enjoyed it.
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Typical Nora Roberts. If you love her stuff and haven't read this one, you'll enjoy it.
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LOVE IT! it's like 3 stories in one!
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I felt as though I was on the scene helping find all three fates...it Was fate
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Nora Roberts usual stuff.
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proves the world is smaller than you think.
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Mystery plus romance. Keeps you reading until very end for answers.
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a treasure hunt romance and danger - great book by a good author.
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About an heirloom that is recovered after much searching.
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This is a great book. It kept me interested and in suspense the entire time I was reading it!!
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Love Nora Roberts - easy read.
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Treasure hunt,romance,and danger makes this a great read
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Romance and danger all in one, impossible to put down. I recommend this book wholeheartedly. "A tale of luck and love in which friendships and fortunes depend on a simple twist of fate." You'll love it!
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A great book that bring adventure with romance.
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a treasure hunt and romance and danger, true to Nora Roberts can;t put down book
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A great read!
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I really enjoyed this book. In true Nora Roberts style it had an interesting and engaging plot along with some romance. I enjoyed the connections and twists between the main characters. There was enough to keep you guessing throughout.
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GREAT BOOK
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One of Nora's very best! Follow three couples to find the third Fate. A lot of love, mystery, and action. A marvelous read!
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Silly but fun.
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when the Lustantia sank, there was one survivor - who pocketed a small statue. A century later it surfaces and the family searches to regain the family treasure.
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First book I\'ve read my Ms. Roberts. I will definitely seek out others by this author. Very intertaining read. Likeable characters one instantly bonds with.
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I loved this story a lot.. and I would like it if the author would carrying on writing more in this series. Very entertaining..
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I have read every Nora Roberts book since she started writing about 30 years ago. This is by far the best and I would love for this to be put onto the "big screen". Terrific storyline, great characters and good suspense. Just an excellent book!
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This was a very fascinating book. It is wonderful how Nora Roberts weaved so many people together to create a mystery like this.
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An enjoyable escapist read.
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Very good Nora Roberts work. If you are a fan, this is a must read.
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I had read this book before, but couldn't remember the story. I enjoyed it as much the second time around!
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Another great book by Nora Roberts.
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Enjoyable romance from a great writer.
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loved it could not put it down
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This was a GREAT book and a quick read.
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I adore novels that have accurate bits of history mixed in with the story plot, and Nora Roberts has certainly done her homework on this one! Three Fates is a real page turner.
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Great book!!
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I am a huge Nora Roberts fan and I have never been disappointed by her books. This is an intertwinned tale involving three couples (a one book version of her ever present trilogies). Excellent story-telling, pure Nora Roberts. #1 New York Times Bestseller.
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another great book from one of my favorite authors.
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Great book! As always Ms. Roberts doesn't disappoint!
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Good writing
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The search for three antique statues of mythical power and great financial worth brings together three seemingly unlikely couples in an age-old struggle of good against evil.
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A well-told tale sevan people trying to recover three silver statues that are meant to be together -- the Three Fates. Fate is a recurrent theme in this somewhat mysterious romance. I loved the characters - Roberts does that so well -- and really enjoyed the story.
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When the Lusitania sank, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief - but keeping the small silver statue he lifted, a family heriloom to future generations. Now, nearly a century later, that preceless heirloom, one of a long-separated set of three, has been stolen. And Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover their great-great-grandfather's treasure, reunite the Three Fates, and make their fotune.
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A petty thief survives the sinking of the Lusitania with a small silver statue. Years later the great, great, grandchildren of the owner of two other statues attempt to reunite the three statues and make their fortune. Good book
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Great story!
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Charming story, but predictable like most Nora Roberts books. And what's with everything in 3s??
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another great one from Roberts
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wish that the story was longer.
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Good for one looking for a romance read.
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When the Lusitania sank, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief--but keeping the small silver statue he lifted, a family heirloom to future generations. Now, nearly a century later, that priceless heirloom, one of a long-separated set of three, has been stolen. And Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover their great-great-grandfather's treasure, reunite the Three Fates, and make their fortune.
The quest will take them from their home in Ireland to Helsinki, Prague, and New York, where they will meet a brilliant scholar who will aid them in their hunt--and an ambitious woman who will stop at nothing to acquire the Fates....
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Excellent! I love how Nora intertwines the three couples in one book, and the intrigue in the plot. I honestly didn't always know where she was going with the story, but it was a wonderful read. Nora's dialogue, one of her strengths anyway, just keeps getting better and better.
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another good read from nora
roberts
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another great nora roberts story
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Another good one!
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Great Read!
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Great book!
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Nora Roberts full-length novels are my favorites -even better than her trilogies - which are always quite fun & very good. I recommend Three Fates to any Nora Roberts fan - I'm sure you won't be disappointed!
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very good,if you like nora roberts this one is one of the better ones
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This is a store of true love and fate and family. You will love it because Nora never lets you down.
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I couldn't get into it and this is the 1st nora roberts I have ever read.
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Another great Nora Roberts novel.
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Three Fates is a dynamic romantic suspense story about a quest inspired by legend, and accomplished by destined love. According to Greek mythology, the three Fates influence the destiny of all mankind, for one spins the thread of life, the next measures it, and the last cuts it at the proper time. To control any of the Fates is a powerful temptation.... Three beautiful silver statuettes of the Fates were made long ago, designed to link together. Legend says that to possess any of them brings good fortune -- and to possess them all brings power beyond imagining. One of the statues was stolen just before the sinking of the Lusitania. When the thief's life was spared in that disaster, he gave up his errant ways -- but he kept the statue as a keepsake and in time passed it on to his descendants. After their family is tricked out of that statue, the Sullivan siblings -- Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca -- become determined to get it back, and to reunite the long-separated triad. Their search leads from Ireland to Europe to New York, entwining each of their lives with a new ally whose destiny is also linked with the Fates. And each of them is fated to face deadly danger as they match wits with a ruthless enemy who is determined to claim the three Fates as her own.
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Not Nora Roberts' best book.
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Great read
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Acts of thievery ultimately lead to justice in the wildly prolific Roberts's latest romantic suspense novel. The little silver statues representing Greek mythology's Three Fates are an art collector's dream: they're extremely valuable individually, but priceless as a trio and legend has it that when put together, they endow their owner with power over destiny. When a German U-boat torpedoes the Lusitania in 1915, petty burglar Felix Greenfield is in the midst of purloining one of the Fates from a first-class stateroom. Felix survives the ship's sinking and vows to reform. Flash to the present, in which three of Felix's descendants calculating Malachi, slick Gideon and intelligent Rebecca Sullivan have just had their Fate stolen by Anita Gaye, a ruthless and menacing antiques dealer. Vowing to recover Felix's statue, the three siblings depart Ireland to search the globe, finding love along the way with a pan-phobic Greek scholar, a stripper and a security expert. Like the Three Fates, the six principals learn that they will only be powerful enough to defeat Anita if they can operate as a single unit. Though it's a slick, snappy read, this character-heavy sudser is far from Roberts's best. She uses the words "three" and "fate" so often that the repetition becomes comic, the siblings' exotic globe-trotting amounts to little more than location name-dropping and Anita, a villainess of Cruella de Vil proportions, is a caricature rather than a character. But Roberts has been so popular, and for so long, that her legion of fans will undoubtedly forgive her for this one while eagerly awaiting her next.
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She was shimmering silver,small enough to fit in the palm of his hand.He took possession of her on an impulse-never knowing that she was more than just a trinket who might fetch a pretty price in a pawnshop at the next port.Then a thunderous explosion rocked the ship-and in mere minutes,so many fates were changed...
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When the Lusitania sank, more than a thousand people died. One passenger who survived became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief-though keeping the small silver statue he lifted, a family heirloom to future generations. Now, nearly a century later, that statue, one of a priceless, long-separated set of three, has been snatchd from the Sullivans. And Malachi, Gideon, and rebecca Sullivan are determined to reocver their great-great-grandfather's treasure, reunite the Three Fates, and make their fortune.

The quest will take them far from their home in Ireland: to Helsinki, where Malachi seeks out Tia Marsh, a formidable American scholar whose priveledged background, sharp mind, and authoratative knowledge of Greek mythology masks a fragile, fear-plagued woman within, and whose family is an important link to the mysterious mmissing statue. To Prague, where a bold, exoctic dancer bnamed Cleo will enchant Gideon Sullivan-and embark on a gamble to turn her life around. And to new York, where security expert Jack Burdett joins the Sullivans in their fight against an ambitious woman who will stop at nothing to acquire the Fates.

Fast-paced and full of the romance and passion for which she is famous, THREE FATES is Nora Roberts at her adventurous best-an unforgettable tale of luck, love, and the fateful decisions that shape people's lives.
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