Mill

There was nothing left in Ireland for Mary Roark but troubles and sorrow. Across the sea, America beckoned to her with the golden promise of a better life. But in the new land of Massachusetts, hopeful young immigrants like Mary Rourk were welcomed only as cheap labor for the textile mills whose iron machinery was powered by their tears and blood. And Mary learned too son that her beauty alone could lift her above the backbreaking hardship and squalid misery her people were made to suffer. Brendan McMahon care to America to find Mary. He had killed for freedom in Ireland. Now, with a price on his head, nothing in this world - not even a rich man who bought Mary's life - could keep him form claiming his childhood love and the destiny they had so long dreamed of sharing. from back cover submitted by WNBooks