What I’ve learned from Face the Fire by Nora Roberts (a book on witches and an ancient curse brought by evil)

Courage and trust, justice with mercy and love without boundaries, without being binding will help conquer the dark.

The first witch, Air must develop courage and trust in her abilities so she can overcome her fear of her abusive husband. The second, Earth must deal with her emotional conflicts about using her power to avenge her sister’s (Air) death. The third witch, Fire took a silkie’s pelt and his ir from him and took him for her lover. However, the silkie found his pelt and the sea called to him and he forgot their love. The third witch, Fire hurled herself off the cliffs into the sea to join him. The failures of the three sisters lead to a curse upon their descendants.

Nell Channing (Air) was able to face her fears and use her powers righteously and Ripley Todd (Earth) battled her emotional conflict for dark power and succeeded. Mia Devlin (Fire) joined with Sam Logan (Water) who had left her broken to heal and chose life and also love without boundaries. Sam promised that he would never leave her again and asked her for a second chance.

Mia realized when she was a young girl, she had been blinded by love for Sam, she wanted to be with him forever and create a future with him. Mia wanted someone whom she could love that would love her back because she was lonely when here parents were indifferent to her. However, Sam wasn’t ready, he was too afraid to commit to her after seeing how his parents were in marriage and how his dad tried to make things Sam wanted tough to get. When Sam left her, Mia was broken, yet she rebuilt her life. She was able to be strong unlike her ancestor Fire. When Sam comes back and asks her for forgiveness and that he now knows how to really love her and isn’t influenced by his parents, Mia doesn’t want to risk her heart, afraid she won’t survive if he leaves again. However, she had to open her heart and realize that she had held on too tightly and it had estranged Sam. In the end, after Sam helps her save Lulu (her guardian entrusted by Mia’s grandmother), doesn’t force her to share magic with him (but she does because she realizes he is holding back because he respects her) and when he takes care of her in the garden and they talk about their life. Sam tells her that he thought his leaving was justified because of the legend (above) and also that he felt tied down that Mia was so certain of her future while he couldn’t see where he was going. However, Sam made a productive business in a hotel and came back after eleven years and told Mia now that he feels certain he has stable ground (has dreams, goals and answers) and is able to tell her that he loves her. Mia learns how to not be too attached to love and be able to let him go if need be and also to forgive the past.
Sam learns from Mrs. Farley (assistant at the hotel) that the world would be stronger if people were capable of handling life on their own. But being capable doesn’t mean being unwilling to depend on someone and work with someone which makes the romance in marriage. Mrs. Farley also says not to expect things to be handed to you on a silver platter. Also, shaking an apple tree trying to get the apple won’t help. It’s important that you learn to climb the tree and no matter how many times you fall, you have to get back up and try again because if the apple is worth it, you have to try to get it.

So the main moral of the story is to believe in yourself, have courage to face your fears, don’t be lazy and keep trying to reach your goals even if you fall. Also, don’t get too overly attached to love and forgive the past pains and open yourself to trust. Also, be merciful in your judgments and make them in true justice which is merciful. Also, that it is important to take risks even if you are afraid, to push aside your fear and go for your dreams because the prize is always worth the fight. So to conquer fear and darkness requires courage and trust, unconditional love and also justice with mercy.

Also i thought it was cool that Mia Devlin had red hair and smoky gray eyes like fire, nell channing had blonde hair and blue eyes like the sky (air is often represented by the color yellow in wiccan) and rippley todd had brown hair and green eyes like the earth.
in the first there were three sisters heaven, earth and air. heaven didn’t want earth to revenge her sister, but she did anyway.