
Rather than being a third wheel, Anna becomes both Kael's and Elin's lover, and we benefit from some awesome love scenes.

She constructs unusual dynamics when Anna unites with the two lovers, Elin and Kael. O' Brien convinces and enlightens us with each word as she widens our definition of what it takes to make a family, and this is the power of The Three. As the three join together to protect themselves against unfriendly strangers, they find themselves forming a bond of need and love, but the three are no match for a group of pro-creationists who kidnap Elin. There are few people along the way after biological war and sickness wipes out most of the United States' population twenty years before. While the publisher lists this book as an adventure, it is the mix with eroticism that completes this remarkable story.Īnna first meets Elin and Kael as they are traveling south on foot for the winter. In the The Three by Meghan O'Brien we are treated to first-rate storytelling that features scorching love scenes with three main characters. Will they find a way to work together to save the woman they both love? Intense, exciting, and sexually provocative, The Three is one book you do not want to miss. Kael and Anna's fragile connection will be tested repeatedly. The threesome journeys south for the winter season but is beset by accidents, relationship strain, and an attack upon Elin by a group of religious fanatics who believe that a woman's duty in the post-apocalyptic world is to bear children and repopulate the earth.

But when Anna unexpectedly interrupts an attack on a beautiful woman lounging by a lake, she is drawn into the relationship of two other survivors of the sickness: young, idealistic Elin, who welcomes Anna into their makeshift family with open arms, and Elin's lover, the older, more jaded Kael, whose dark and brooding nature initially keeps Anna at bay. Twenty-five-year-old Anna is ready to give up on living in a post-apocalyptic world where unchecked sickness and slaughter have killed off her childhood tribe, family, and best friend.
