In the soot-mantled streets of Dublin, forty-three-year-old Padrick Parnell—once celebrated as "Fighting Parnell, the Five Leaf Shamrock, contender for the Empire Championship"—navigates a life defined by fading glory and deep personal grief. Haunted by the memory of his late wife, Katherine, Padrick spends his days visiting her grave, drinking stout at Conover's pub, and managing a handful of local fighters like young Terrence. But when a beaten, desperate young woman named Irene crosses ...

While his drugged body slept on the operating table, Rowan's unconscious mind journeyed to a lifeless place without definite color or substance. In self defense against the death of the other that was also a death inside himself, he traveled back into the dark night of long ago, back to a time when he and the Siamese twin who was dying were as one.And Rowan heard voices....It was always awkward, being Siamese twins. Awake or asleep, it was hard to be comfortable.