

When catastrophe falls on the young man, can she extend mercy to him – at the risk of her own life? And can she find out the truth about her mother before her own reputation is destroyed, and her dream along with it? One of her older students, Aedach, seems determined to destroy Moira. But Moira begins to hear whisperings about her mother, and many who welcomed her suddenly turn their backs on her. There she meets an assortment of characters, warm Brid and merry Sinead and sinister Buach O’Boyle – and handsome thatcher Sean McFadden, who keeps popping up when least expected. Having grown up hearing her mother’s charming stories of the village of Ballymann, Moira agrees.

Reeling from her mother’s death, Moira Doherty decides to fulfill her mother’s last wish – for Moira to leave Boston and take a teaching job in Donegal, Ireland.
