Erin of New York: Blood and Bones of the Irish (Civil War Wives #2)

BLOOD AND BONES OF THE IRISH:
ERIN OF NEW YORK

Erin Rafferty leaves most of her family behind in Ireland to join her sister in New York. She is going to work in a factory, planning to send home money and hope from America. Aboard the ship, she is attracted to a man, but learns it is impossible. He is traveling in a stateroom with his fiancée while Erin is sleeping in steerage with all the hundreds of other poor immigrants.

Aiden Doyle is hoping his life is headed in the right direction, finally. After years toiling as a child then working on the docks as a young man, he has found a rich woman who wants to take him to America with her. Freedom and riches beckon, even without love.

When disease strikes the passengers, Erin is called to help Sheila, the woman sharing the cabin of handsome Aiden.

With the long journey comes temptation that she struggles to resist. Will she be able to find the new life she seeks in America, now she has sacrificed her virtue to her wayward heart? More, will she be able to hold onto this man now a terrible war is tearing the nation apart?

When her true love enlists to fight for the Union, Erin is driven to desperation. To hold onto this man she loves, she cuts her hair and enlists as a man in the same army.

But will a wild Irish bounder welcome her actions, or turn her adrift in the midst of an army waging war?