Drogheda, Ireland 1864.

Ellen Cooney is fit to burst with happiness. Her sailor husband is on his way home from a long sea voyage. But devastation awaits on the quayside of her beloved Drogheda.
Crippled with grief, Ellen can barely function. But she must keep her young family out of the dreaded ‘Poorhouse’ at all costs.
In time, Ellen glimpses a spark of hope for the future. But it seems that circumstances, and an unimaginably malign force, may drive her to make the biggest mistake of her life. Options are few for a woman in such a man’s world.
Are the rest of Ellen’s days to be blighted by the choice she had to make?
Peggy, Larry, Nicholas…who can she trust?
Can she find the strength and the means to calm the turbulent tide of her life and navigate her way to happiness?
It’s time for her to take control.

This is Ellen’s story