In the bitter winter of 1847, leaving an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of refugees, some of them optimistic, many more of them desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith accompanied by his wife and children-and a killer stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. This journey will see many lives end, while...

When famine strikes her family farm, Clare Hanley decides to leave Ireland for America, despite the fact that her older sister Margaret had similarly emigrated and had never been heard from again

In 1849, an Irish immigrant living in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains finds in the wreckage of a deadly stagecoach crash a letter with a photograph of a beautiful woman, and, moved by her written plea for help, journeys across the American frontier to the city of San Francisco at the height of the Gold Rush