Having escaped the Irish famine only to become embroiled in America`s Civil War, Eliza sets out on a mysterious cross-country quest, while a poetess denies other suitors to take up with a mercurial revolutionary, and a rebel guerilla sets out on a brutal rampage across the West. By the author of Star of the Sea. 50, 000 first printing. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.