The Irish Daughter of New York
Maggie O’Halloran gazes up at the Statue of Liberty, her eyes full of tears. “At last,” she breathes softly, taking her brother’s hand in hers. “This is where our future begins…”
New York City, 1891: Stepping off the boat, Maggie O’Halloran’s heart is filled with hope. This is her chance to start again, to leave her life in Ireland behind her. But when her father isn’t waiting at the docks as planned, she and her brother Danny find themselves alone in this ferocious city—homeless, penniless and without a friend in the world. How are they going to survive?
Life on the Lower East Side is hard and grindingly poor, but Maggie is determined to find a way to make a living in this city. As she gazes longingly into the windows of Manhattan’s famous department stores, she dreams of owning her own millinery shop and becoming independent at last.
As Maggie fights to survive, she finds a speck of hope at last in the warm, kind eyes of Brendan O’Donoghue, who offers her and Danny refuge. Even though it’s not the life she’d dreamed of, she can’t deny that his warm, kind eyes make her feel she has finally found a home at last.
But just as Maggie finds work with a wealthy family on the Upper East Side, and her dreams feel closer than ever, Danny falls in with a notorious New York gang… Will she be able to save him and everything they’ve worked for? Or will the American dream she has held so close to her heart be lost forever?
“Wow! This book had everything I want!… [I] teared up… Made me want to start the next one in the series immediately"
—Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“I absolutely flew through [it]… It pulled me in from the first chapter… I kept telling myself “just one more chapter,” and before I knew it, I was at the end… Fantastic… Addictive.”
— Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Loved it!… I pulled an all-nighter to finish reading it… I read it with bated breath!… Brilliant."
—Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Kate was born in Pennsylvania, went to college in Vermont, and has spent summers in the Canadian wilderness. After several years as a diehard New Yorker and 13 years in the UK, she now lives in central New Jersey with her husband, the last two of her five children, and two affectionate Golden Retrievers.
In addition to writing, Kate works as a Core Editor with Cornerstones Literary Consultancy and also offers individual manuscript assessment for creative writers.
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