Reading order

Three Sisters Island Trilogy reading order

Nora Roberts

  1. Dance upon the Air2001
  2. Heaven and Earth2001
  3. Face the Fire2002
3 volumes
Volumes
2001–2002
Published
about 22 h
Reading time
Completed
Status

Quick answer

Dance upon the Air
Start withDance upon the Air2001 · Volume 1 of 3

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Publication order

3 volumes2001–2002Completed

  • Three books, one per witch, and they were written to be read in order: each is a complete romance, but the curse the three of them are lifting runs across all three and only ends in Face the Fire.
  • Dance Upon the Air is the first.
  • Roberts wrote a great many trilogies on this pattern — three women, one small town, one thread that closes at the end — and this is one of the better ones, which is why it is still the one people ask about twenty years on.

A plan for the whole series

3 volumes, 1,180 pages, about 22 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.

Stages

2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 1, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 114 h19 daysby November 17, 2026
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 21, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 27 h10 daysby December 1, 2026
    • 3. Face the Fire2002 · 400 pages · 7 h
  4. The end of the series
    December 1, 2026
In one goNovember 27, 2026about 4 weeks
In stages, with breaksDecember 1, 2026about 5 weeks · +2 h of other books

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How this plan is calculated

The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →

Every volume in order

Read: 0 of 3

No volume in this series has enough ratings to enter a ranking yet, so the list carries no scores — the order and the volumes are still complete.

  1. Dance upon the Air
    Dance upon the Air2001 · 48 ratingsStart hereBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  2. Face the Fire
    Face the Fire2002 · 39 ratingsBuy
    –Not ranked yet

Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Which Three Sisters Island Trilogy book is the longest?

“Face the Fire” is the longest at 400 pages; the shortest is “Heaven and Earth” with 381 pages.

What should I read after Three Sisters Island Trilogy?

Other series by Nora Roberts: Chronicles of The One, The Circle Trilogy, In Death.

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