When Father Jack gives Dermot a diary from 1882 which recounts a mass murder in Chicago and a trumped-up trial, accusing one of Ireland's greatest heroes without any evidence, Dermot and Nuala and her magic powers get involved.

A lonely Irish girl's life is changed by a single act of disobedience that will nearly destroy her and changes the course of her life forever.

"Searching for the peace and quiet that eluded him for four long years as a Confederate colonel in the Civil War, surgeon Clay Fitzgerald sets out for Ireland to lay claim to the estate and fortune he's recently inherited."--Jacket.

"A young, aspiring poet in a quiet Irish village thinks her life of books suits her perfectly until a charismatic newcomer from America broadens her horizons. Siobhan Doyle grew up with her Uncle Kee at their family pub The Leeside, in rural Ireland. Kee has been staunchly overprotective of Siobhan ever since her mother's death in an IRA bombing, but now that she's an adult, it's clear that in protecting her Kee has unwittingly kept her in a state...