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Inner Harbor (Chesapeake Bay Series)

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This is the third book to a wonderful Trilogy. Philip the last of the Quinn brothers finds his true love. All the loose ends are finally tied up. Is Seth really Ray Quinn's son? This is revealed in this installment. This was the best, the most intense and most emotional of all three books.

Phillip Quinn, a high powered ad exec living in Baltimore and the last of the Quinn brothers still single. The Quinn family saved him from a life a crime of theft and street running when he was a boy.

Sybil needs to find the little boy she remembers from 6 long years ago before things completely fall apart. Did the Quinn's really steal Seth from his mother? Who were these people? Sybil is about to find out. She is on a personal mission and when she sees him, things aren't what they seem. The Quinn brothers are gentle with him and seem to love him. Then she seems to fall for Phillip. When her identity is revealed, the tenuous grip she has on him falls apart as she now must defend herself against the protective family and find the truth.

Can Phillip trust her knowing who she is? Can he look past it to find love? Can they together save Seth from an uncaring mother who wants him for money? Sybil finds out that blood can indeed be thicker than water.

Great Trilogy read each installment in order and you will be very delighted!

I wouldn't recommend anyone read Inner Harbor without first reading Sea Swept and Rising Tides as they all tie in together. While the trilogy is about three brothers (Cameron, Ethan & Phillip) Seth, the youngest brother's story begins in Sea Swept and ends in Inner Harbor. Reading only the first or second book of this series will leave many questions unanswered. I found I enjoyed Inner Harbor the most. Not only because everything is settled in this book but because I found the chemistry between Phillip and Sybill outstanding. Even when his brothers (mostly Cameron) were angry with her, he gave her the benefit of the doubt to hear her out. To me, although she wasn't what she portrayed to be in the beginning, she unselfishly wanted only the best for Seth. I have also read the "Born In.." and the "Dream.." series by Nora Roberts but I think she outdid herself with this one. I've read the last couple pages of Inner Harbor over and over because I loved the ending.

Phillip Quinn has made something of himself. He is an educated accountant and has a high profile job that he loves. He struggles daily to keep a balance between the life he built for himself and the promise to his family to be there for Seth.

Sybil Griffin shows up claiming to be doing research for a new book, but then it comes out that she is in fact Seth's biological aunt. That puts the family on notice. The brothers know that she could claim Seth and destroy the family that they have lovingly put together.

Phillip is used to women falling at his feet, but when he meets Sybil he is hooked. When he finds our about her deception, he tries to resolve his feelings for her and still be loyal to the family. It has taken the four brothers a long time to build their lives and to become a family, and as Sybil begins to see this, she sides with them.

This is one of Nora Robert's best. I was captivated by this trilogy the story of these 4 wonderful brothers and how they come together in a time of need. I loved all three of the book but Inner Harbor was truly my favorite. I fell in love with Philip just as Sybill did. He is handsome, successful, smart and bad boy all rolled into one. Nora Roberts has a way of appealing to her audience by putting you right there in the story with the characters. A must read!

This was by far my favorite in the Chesapeake trilogy. Phillip was my favorite character all along..and I wasn't disappointed here. He never forgot why he was the man he was..or the man he could have become if it hadn't been for Ray and Stella Quinn. That he never questioned the promise he made to his dying father...just that it would be done.
Phillip seemed the most well-rounded of the Quinn men. I loved seeing him reconcile the life he had made for himself with the life he had to accept to keep his promise to his father.
His attraction to Sybil was in keeping with character. Phillip's attraction was as much to her mind as it was phsyical. He truly met his match with her. I loved the way he took it for granted she'd fall for him. She on the other hand wanted to keep her distance from him to complete her reason for being there in St. Chris. Her orderly life amused Phillip and he enjoyed throwing her off balance.
Phillip was a man who took advantage of the second chance the Quinn's gave him. He became an educated, confident man. His one flaw was his own fear of letting people see inside to his deeper emotions.His father put it best "love always was a tough one for you". To see Phillip fighting and ultimately giving in to his feelings for Sybil was great to watch.
Probably my favorite thing tho was the humor. The way he turned Sybil's own words to suit himself. His calling his brothers "peasants", his "run away with me" speel that he used on all the women.
All in all I thing Nora Roberts saved the best for last in this series. Phillip's story was second chances,humor, romance and the family ties that bind us all, all tied into one great story.

Nora Roberts is not one of my favorite authors, but I do enjoy her novels every now and again. I really enjoyed this series up until the third book.

I liked Phillip, and I think he was a fairly well-rounded character. In fact, aside for the redundancy and stereotypes present in all Nora Roberts book, I found this book to be entertaining.

So what, you may ask, is my problem? My problem is with Sybill. Somewhere around page 40 in the hardback (I believe) when the reader learns (WARNING: Mild spoiler ahead) that Sybill is Seth's aunt, my faint disinterest in Sybill turned to flat out disklike. Sybill makes a comment to the effect that "although Gloria is a drug addict, Seth is her son and should be with her".

For some one so educated, especially with regards to people, this comment puzzled me. Either this comment was totally out of character and was a blemish on Nora Roberts part, or Nora Roberts wrote the character this way. Far be it for me to criticize a central character wtih flaws, but I simply could not recover from this statement, particularly when similar statements and action were made later in the novel.

It may seem like a petty complaint when there are so many other serious problems with the novel, but it is my opinion.

Hopefully, Seth's novel will improve (although I am sure he'll end up marrying some beautiful woman as all the handsome Quinn men seem to).

The four Quinn brothers are finally coming to terms with the death of their parents who adopted all of them, saving them from life on the streets and an almost certain life of crime.The youngest, Seth, is only 10 and unfortunately has a drug addict and drunk, Gloria, for a mother who has been demanding money for giving up her son and who continually threatens to take him away from the Quinns. Gloria's sister, Dr. Sybill Griffin, comes to their town to check out the Quinns and to see if Seth is happy and well cared for.She and Phillip Quinn, the third son and a very successful businessman meet and a powerful chemistry sparks between them. As a psychologist, Sybill is forced to face her own issues with her sister and their controlling mother before she is able to unbend enough to acknowledge the love between her and Phillip.

This book is excellent. I couldn't put it down until I was finished. Then I wanted to pick it up and read it again. I'm hoping Nora Roberts will write a book about Seth, to fill us in on how everything turns out for everyone involved. Reading about Cam, Ethan, and Phillip, made me want to know more about the whole family. Made me wish I, too, could become part of this wonderful family. The surprising twists and turns in this book kept me reading. I can't say enough good things about this book. Read it for yourself and see if you don't agree.

A must read for fans of Nora Roberts. I could not put this book down till I'd turned the last page. The author makes you feel you're right there in the story with the characters! I was only sad to finish the book; it's the last of the trilogy and I felt like I was saying good-bye to very dear friends!

Wow! Yesterday I finished this book, the last of the trilogy about the Quinn brothers. I was obsessed with getting to the end, but now I'm sad because those characters are no longer in my life. Nora did a great job of portraying what it was like to come from different realities. She did a wonderful job of dealing with the difficult subject of child abuse (physical, sexual and emotional) and how that shapes the adults that emerge from that type of life. Best of all she shows the power of love, trust and acceptance in healing battered spirits. The love stories, the development of both familial love and romantic love, were powerful. The characters were so real, and of course the men were to die for. And the thread of the father's ghost and younger brother's rehabilitation throughout the three stories is brilliant. Nora has an extraordinary gift. Thankfully she shares it with us.