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A young woman’s desperate struggle to keep her family alive during the Great Irish Potato Famine.
1848: the third year the potato crop failed in Ireland. The Protestant landlords have absconded back to Britain, leaving the Catholic peasants to fend for themselves, while the government allows the export of tens of thousands of tons of Irish food daily.
With two younger brothers to feed, Molly O’Brien has taken her father’s place on the road gang, building a road that runs from her tiny village to the river and no farther. If the authorities find out, they’ll give her place to a boy.
Yet sixteen hours of labor a day will not garner enough wages to even buy bread for her family. She is beyond despair. Beyond prayer. And so far beyond the tenets of her childhood that she’s decided to offer her body to the first man with the price of a loaf of bread.
When a stranger takes her hand, he will alter Molly’s life in ways she could never have imagined.
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