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Some love stories begin with a message sent at exactly the wrong moment. This one begins with everything left unsent. Emma Sloane is careful with her words—so careful, in fact, that the most honest ones never make it out of her drafts folder. For years, she’s written messages she doesn’t send, confessions she doesn’t share, and feelings she refuses to name. It’s safer that way. Nothing changes if nothing is said. Then there’s Lucas Reed.

On an evening in 1846 engaged couple Meg O’Connor and Rory Quinn join in an exuberant moondance. Observing is the parish priest, Father Brian O’Malley. The moondance brings bittersweet memories of Siobhan, the long-dead love of his youth, with whom he still feels a spiritual connection. Within days of the dance, the villagers of Kelegeen awake to find their potato crops destroyed by blight. They’ve been through famine before. But this is an Gorta Mór, a monster the likes of which Ireland has never seen.