The first novel examines a possessiveness which resorts to control and violence, the second focuses on a vengeful response to the loss of a loved one, and the third outlines some of the damage which can be caused by over-dependence on a beloved. The trilogy, comprised of Dance Upon The Air (2001), Heaven and Earth (2001), and Face the Fire (2002), explores various aberrations which arise from love, or what purports to be love. Nora Roberts' Three Sisters trilogy advocates for such an approach inasmuch as it depicts a variety of ways in which love can become destructive and suggests the need to evaluate and assess experiences of love in order to be certain that it will indeed be beneficial. Stanley's words in Hannah More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808), through which he expressed a legalistic caution about love: “love itself requires some regulations to direct its exertion some law to guide its motions some rule to prevent its aberrations some guard to hinder that which is vigorous from becoming eccentric” (332).
In the title of this chapter I refer back to Mr.
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