This is the 2nd book of The Knoll Trilogy Series. Allie McCreary embraces her new life in America with the Captain and Rufina, and goes to school in New York City. Her life seems perfect. The Captain purchases a new ship and uses it to stowaway slaves and bring them North to freedom. Allie is independent and strong-willed. She finds herself in a relationship with a wealthy, young man who is the brother of one of her schoolmates whom she does not like. She also chooses to get involved with abolitionists only to find herself in a new adventure that changes her life, again.

The 100 year anniversary of the official use of American military personal identity tags, affectionately known as Dog Tags, recently passed without fanfare. We are currently in a war where the Dog Tag is once again a highly personal item to warriors in every service and their families. Each Dog Tag carries its own human interest story. Receiving it, hanging it around the neck, and feeling it is at once a silent statement of commitment. The tag itself individualizes the human being who wears it within a huge and faceless organization. The armed forces demand obedience, commitment, and duty to...

The potato plants are turning black, their leaves curling and crumbling. No one understands the reason why, especially Allie McCreary. She thinks of Ireland as magical and can't imagine living anywhere else. The green hills appeal to her senses; a feast for her eyes. Most of the Irish people she knows are optimistic, and after last year's dreadful crop, most believed this year would be different. And, everyone thought that way as the new crops began to grow and look like they were supposed to, until...until it happened, again. But the potatoes were just the beginning. Widespread starvation...

Third book in the trilogy series of The Knoll. Allie 's story continues: As a governess, Allie finds herself in the strange position of being neither a slave nor a family member. She now makes it her personal mission to help slaves escape to freedom, which backfires when she finds herself in the clutches of a brutal new land owner who follows no laws. Needing to escape, she comes to realize the importance of the abolitionists she met so many years before who now play a critical role in her efforts to flee to New York. What begins is yet another dangerous adventure and an emotional journey she...