Victoria Crossing
English
By (author): Michael Wallace
Driven from Ireland during the potato famine in 1851, Protestant Victoria MacPherson and Catholic Maeve OReilly find themselves thrown together aboard a Manhattan-bound ship. They arrive in New York City with only a small purse of silver and the promise that Maeves brother will find them there. But hes nowhere to be found and a scam artist cons the girls out of their savings, leaving the two destitute in the tenements of Lower Manhattan.
As the women claw their way up from seamstresses earning pennies a day to proprietresses starting their own shop, their success is endangered by the citys corruption and a disgraceful secret that Victoria has been keeping from Maeve. Jealous rivals, religious prejudice, and the shocking revelation of Victorias shameful past threaten to reduce the women to rags. But will their strength, courage, and spirit be enough to help them survive and thrive once again?
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