Gladdy's Wake

leaving behind the body of her stepfather, to arrive in New York and the world of political revolutionaries. Hired to find her is Pinkerton detective James Kelly, a recent
Irish immigrant mainly interested in easy money, drink, and women. Going undercover among the radical followers of Emma Goldman, James' search for Gladdy becomes a passion that will affect the Kelly family for generations. 

New York City —
Post 9/11

Habib, James' granddaughter, has reinvented herself as a devout Muslim. Five times a day she prays toward Mecca,
proving that she has left her early life as Janie
Kelly, teenage runaway and outcast, behind. When her husband is killed and her son disappears in
New York,
suspected of involvement in a terrorist plot, everything she has built comes into question. She has no choice but to turn to the family she fled decades before.