Passion and An Irish Orphan’s Struggle in 1854 ManhattanMANHATTAN, 1854: Orla, an orphan of the Irish Famine, is musically talented, but traumatised by the brutal eviction of her family from Theodore Royce’s lands. She was adopted by Dr William Doughty and his wife Jane, but now adolescence is changing her and they fear for her future. They ask their friend Anna, a schoolmistress, to help.William’s colleague Joseph Murphy, an Irish surgeon, has never forgotten Anna. Years ago in Dublin, her beauty and kindness touched his heart. Yet Jane and William prefer to keep them apart.Joseph knows the guilty secret from his Irish rebel past that forced him into exile. When he sees his likeness in a murder victim in the morgue at Bellevue Hospital, his investigations take him to the saloon owned by Spiker O’Shea, the one Irishman that he does not want to meet.Alex Royce, Theodore’s son and Anna’s former fiance, courts her again. But the bold and handsome cavalry officer, embittered by the assassination of his father, struggles with his desire for revenge. . .The harrowing events of the Famine warped all their lives. Now they must face what connects a past they would rather forget.

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