Unrest

Brash,duplicitous womenmurder and mayhemand illicit love abound in this wild adventure for fans of Outlander and The Home for Unwanted Girlsfrom a major new talent in historical fiction. Bytown1836: The lawless cesspool that will become the city of Ottawa is beginning to reek of more than just swamp water. Rife with squalorcorruptionand organized crimeclass injustice divides the town more starkly than the canal that bisects itcutting off its Irish poorΓÇöwho are ready to fight back. On a homestead in the woods near Bytowna domestic drama is also reaching a fever pitch. Quietungainly Mariahher face scarred in a dog attack back home in Irelandhas been living on sufferance in her sister BiddyΓÇÖs home since they sailed for a new life. SheΓÇÖs treated as the spinster aunta farmhand working alongside BiddyΓÇÖs husbandSeamus. But the three of them are keeping a bitter secret: Mariahin love with Seamusis the mother of Thomasthe familyΓÇÖs oldest child. And sheΓÇÖs about to burst under the strain of making herself small. While Mariah plots to claim her rightful place in the worldThomas keeps secrets of his own. Eager to escape the roiling tensions at homeheΓÇÖs apprenticed himself to a blacksmith in Bytownbut soon falls into trouble too big for him to handle. To save himselfheΓÇÖs made a deal with the one man colder than the devilΓÇöPeter Aylenleader of a powerful Irish rebel gang. As danger mountsboth for Thomas and for the townthereΓÇÖs only one way for Mariah to save her son: by becoming the hero of her own storyfacing her deepest fears with a determination she never knew she had.