When Adam Rhoades tires of the political climate in Ireland and
decides to leave for America, his daughter Rebekah's future
happiness is threatened. For Rebekah, against her father's wishes,
has fallen in love with handsome young Republican, Daniel O'Neill.
Then Daniel, too, is forced to flee from his homeland and joins
Rebekah on an ocean liner headed for New York. In the enclosed
shipboard society their love is impossible to hide.
But a cruel twist of fate leaves Rebekah orphaned and living in
Liverpool, without the man she loves. Reluctantly she agrees to
marry her new guardian, Joshua Green. It is a decision Rebekah soon
bitterly regrets. Isolated and vulnerable, it is only when she takes
her courage in her hands does she rediscover the happiness she
thought had been lost to her forever.
June Francis's maiden name was Nelson, and although she can't lay
claim to the famous Lord Admiral, she can boast of at least six
mariners in her ancestry who came from far and wide. June's mother
worked in service and her tales of the old days have inspired several
of June's published novels.
