Innocence Lost (Bootleggers' Chronicles, #1)

Philadelphia, 1924. A widow, a seven-year-old son, and a house she can't afford to lose.

When Maggie Barnes buried her husband, she buried the life she'd expected along with him. What's left is a rundown place on a street where she knows no one, a boy who needs more than she can give him, and a grocer's proposal she has no intention of accepting.

Independence means taking in lodgers — a young Irish constable, a schoolteacher, and a quiet man who keeps odd hours — and praying three months' ren...