The first of Roberts' Irish trilogy is considered her best work. Maggie Concannon, a hot-tempered glassblower, and Rogan Sweeney, a gallery owner who recognizes her genius. Roberts at her peak writes with real atmospheric power (the Irish countryside is a character), and the romance has the slow burn of something genuinely built rather than constructed.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.