Gabriella was born and raised in the small Irish village of Kells. Her eyes were like emeralds and her hair the darkest of ginger. By her second decade she found herself among the mean streets of Dublin with her cousin helping her to keep the straight and narrow. As the famine plagued Ireland's countryside in the mid-19th century, the O'Brien family had a decision to make. Would they stay in the only home that they had ever known or bid the Emerald Coast goodbye? Was the North Atlantic and its latter year storms the voyage of a lifetime with brighter days in Boston or would they be safe in the land of their birth, among the crying hearts of Dublin? Travel back in time with them and see where there life leads.