From the deck of the paddle wheeler, Lady Anne Rysher watches as the vessel carrying the group of Irish women nears shore. The small northeast Iowa farming community, nestled on the banks of the Mississippi River, is still overcoming loss following the Civil War. This is the last stop. Once the boat docks, the only way off is to join the other women who will face a line of ogling would-be-husbands and abide by the agreement she made when she sailed from Ireland. She must promise herself to one of these men before she can formulate her plan of escape into the vast wilderness of America, far away from the men who murdered her parents and are looking for her. But when she disembarks, Anne steps into the middle of a feud between two men, once inseparable childhood friends, now bitter enemies. Soon she discovers more than she expected when she finds her own voice as part of the Suffragette movement.
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