In this first of three novels, One of Three, Claire is a present day Hydrologist whose project entails collecting water resources data to determine if there is enough ground water to support a proposed mine in central Nevada and sustain the natural environment in the basins that she is studying. When she finds Daniel's journals it awakens a spark in her that had long been diminished. She becomes captivated by the Irish immigrant, the near annihilation of his people from the potato famine, and the struggle he faces in this new land that is America in the mid 19th century. While Daniel's wife Mary waits for him to send for her at the Irish estate known as Glen Haven, where she and her mother are servants, they survive the famine and disease with the help of Lord Forester. Their lives interweave and Claire finds herself transformed by the past and renewed for the future.