Can a person born into a nomadic culture find a home? When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke, and Mulligan abandons a secret society of Irish freedom fighters.

Michael Corrigan is an American author. He has an English MA from San Francisco State and his story "Free Fall" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work includes "These Precious Hours" and "A Year and a Day."