When ambitious young Clancy Calhoun leaves his small town in Ireland to start a new life in West Virginia, his world collides with the beautiful and mysterious Rowan O'Reilly aboard the ship to America. Banished from her hometown by a priest and sent away to marry a man she has never met, Rowan is hiding a painful secret, and Clancy puts his dreams at risk to help her. Alone together in a strange new country, they must evade the violent and determined criminal she was meant to marry in order to begin a new life free from the pasts that haunt them.