The Golden Promise of Cripple Creek (Travels Across Time, Book 3): Love During the Boom Times | An Enthralling Blend of Passion, Self-Discovery, and the Enduring Quest for Justice by Mary Ellen Johnson
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.