As a doctor, Stella Quinn saves lives; as a teacher, Ray Quinn gives his students the chance to dream. For three lonely boys, Stella and Ray work miracles. They pick Cam, Ethan and Philip up off the streets and give them a home and family. They teach them how to care for others and how to allow others to care for them.

Nora Roberts' Chesapeake Bay trilogy revolves around the Quinn brothers. In the first volume, SEA SWEPT, Cam comes home from the European auto racing circuit to join his brothers at Ray's bedside in the Intensive Care Unit, where he is dying of injuries sustained in a car accident. Cowering in a corner of that hospital room is 10-year-old Seth DeLauter. Ray asks his sons to raise him as their brother.

To follow through on their commitment to Ray, the three brothers must change their lives drastically. They show Seth what it means to be part of a supportive family and along the way, the men are able to heal their own past hurts --- not only because of their relationship with Seth, but because of the women who come into their lives.

In SEA SWEPT and RISING TIDES many questions arise about Seth's relationship with Ray. Why was Ray on his way back from seeing Seth's mother when he had the car accident? Why had Ray paid Seth's mother large sums of money in the past year? Some readers have been forced to haunt bookstores, waiting for INNER HARBOR, to find the answers to these questions. Finally, the wait is over.

In INNER HARBOR, Philip takes center stage. Commuting back and forth from the Quinn's family home to his job in Baltimore is demanding, but it lets him take care of Seth and run the new Quinn family boat building business.

One weekend, Dr. Sybill Griffin drops by the boatyard as the brothers are finishing up a boat for a customer. It gradually becomes clear that Sybill has some mysterious connection to Seth. To complicate matters, Philip also becomes attracted to her.  
As the story unfolds, the mystery surrounding Seth is resolved and Philip and Sybill fall deeply in love.

Nora Roberts excels at creating strong relationships between her characters, and, once again, these relationships — between brothers, lovers, and friends — create an atmosphere in which growth, change, and acceptance thrive.

   --- Reviewed by Jeanny V. House

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