Finding the Dream

July 31, 1997
If Freud wanted to know what women want, he should have asked Nora Roberts, who seems to have it down cold and can reproduce it several times a year. In the last installment of her Dream trilogy (Daring to Dream, Holding the Dream) about three friends who grew up together in a mansion in Big Sur, rich-girl Laura Templeton--"so polished, so perfect"--meets her love match in bad-boy Michael Fury, a modern-day Heathcliff who is renting her stables. Michael, a handsome mutt of a man with no roots and a yearning heart, doesn't really know if he has much to give an American princess like Laura, who is recovering from a bad divorce and raising two children. But the reader knows, and Roberts sees to it that Laura gets it in spades. As formula romance, it's unbeatable.