Aran Islands, 1898. Rose O'Neill learns that her beloved brother Donalhas died fighting in the Spanish-American war. The news is followed by Donal'scomrade-in-arms, Adam Blakely, who arrives a month later on Kilronan's scenicshores. He's come to return Rose's letters. Letters that Adam has re-read ahundred times.

Two weeks stretch into two glorious months, then Adam's fatherfalls ill, and he's summoned home to New York. He leaves Rose with the memoryof a beautiful night and the promise of marriage. Yet Rose's eighteenthbirthday comes and goes, and she doesn't hear a word. Unable to ignore thechild growing inside of her, she leaves the only home she's ever known,clutching Adam's address.

But in New York's crowded harbor, she's met with acruel awakening. Penniless, pregnant, and alone in a foreign city, Rose mustford through sweatshops, Lower East Side tenements, and personal tragedy,before she can let go of her first love and hope for a second chance with agood, steady man.

Then, just as Rose makes peace with her past, changes nobodycould have foreseen threaten to topple the life for which she has sacrificedso much.


Format Häftad Språk Engelska Utgivningsdatum 2023-12-05 ISBN 9781839015564