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An Edgar Award-Winning Author
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world. But when she accidentally kills an unarmed man to defend her father, she must flee to New York. There, her older brother introduces her to boys who will grow into gangsters, but who as children admire and respect Bessie's spirit and fortitude as she is cast into a gangland that yearns for justice and mercy.