Rhiannon Broderick grew up knowing New York City as one word: home. That is, until her world comes crashing down, leaving her with no love-of-her-life and no best-friend-forever.
For Austin Chang, his life is all about smooth sailing: bashes at his mansion, the ladies drooling over him, and the swim team where he’s the best swimmer in his league.
On the first day of Hawkens Academy, Rhiannon meets Austin. But this story isn’t a love story.
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Join me in a story from days gone by that, if you can get past my handwriting, you won’t soon be forgetting.
To look at its author is to see a wrinkling old woman, hair as faded and brittle as pressed flowers. But don’t hold your breath waiting for me to complain. I was twenty once, and by most accounts a beauty–five-foot-nine, hair the yellow of ripe wheat, lips bee-stung, eyes emerald–but no one save she condemned to die ere her time escapes the insults of old age.
It’s enough that a merciful Providence has condescended to keep my memory young. And what memories they are! Of a momentous, murderous era, a time when darkness swept the land, and of a man who in his courage, his compassion, dared raise a lamp against that darkness–a man that, until the day they stole him from my arms, I had the great good fortune of calling my lover.
When William Faulkner said, “The past is never dead; it’s not even past,” he could have been referring to the Irish.
America is about today, Maeve had decided during her and her older brother’s flight home from their vacation. While Padrick buried himself in a tome about the Easter Rebellion and its aftermath, her thoughts revolved around her future. America is where we can invent ourselves however we please; where we always look to the future and where we may build castles in the air, but that’s better than stumbling around in the rubble of the past.
Somewhere over the Atlantic Maeve had put aside childish things. She’d vowed to pursue success as ardently as her Irish relatives pursued their psychic injuries. They might lament they were helplessly buffeted by fate, but they had marinated in their victimhood so long they wouldn’t have chosen another outcome even if it had been offered.
Maeve Mooney would craft her own destiny.
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