Ireland on the eve of the potato blight, in the bitter winter of 1846.
Shu Lin transmigrates into Catherine. A promising university graduate becomes a textile worker laboring ten hours a day.
She transmigrates into this nineteenth-century winter, when snow blankets all of Ireland.
She lives in an attic of less than ten square meters. The roof leaks, wind blows through the windows, the water tastes strange, and every meal is potato bread or bread and potatoes.
Then the blight strikes, and prices keep climbing.
One day, over the mechanical clatter of the spinning machines, Catherine counts on her frozen, reddened fingers:
At this rate, in just one month, she'd have to work twenty-four hours a day just to avoid starving to death!
Catherine sees the light:
Run!
If she doesn't leave now, soon she won't even be able to afford potatoes.
Sell her belongings, save up, apply for emigration assistance, and sail to the New World, still emerging and on the rise!
- -
Aboard the passenger ship Juliet.
As she smells the meat and fruit drifting from the first-class kitchen, Catherine washes down a piece of bread as hard as stone with her daily ration of water. Her fists gradually clench.
If she wants a better life, she has to start by becoming head of the meal committee.
She brings the passengers together, makes use of the rules, and tends to the injured. One day, she realizes that the lord in first class seems to be asking around about her.
- -
She was the moon in the depths of winter, 1846.
On the streets of New York, he never again saw moonlight as vast as it had been over the Atlantic.
His gaze came from on high, filled only with love and surrender.
[Before You Read]
1. Entirely fictional. This novel is a mishmash of nineteenth-century customs and culture, so please don't scrutinize the historical timeline.
2. Five-year age gap | university student and British aristocrat | the powerful one falls hard
Theme: Helping others
