Just twenty years old and running from the law, brash Tom Callahan flees Ireland for a new life in America. On board the steamer Antioch, he meets Katrina Hansen, a beautiful Norwegian young Mormon woman who is on the way to Utah with her family. Gordon Ryan's first historical novel, is the story of the unlikely romance between a Mormon and a Catholic in the final years of the nineteenth century. Weaves in historical events such as the Alaskan gold rush and Utah's statehood celebration in 1896. [publisher blurb]
