Spilt milk - Lana Citron

Reeling from the disastrous adventures that punctuate her off-beat world (populated by petty thieves and pimps, gun-toting drug addicts and crazed religious zealots), Dubliner Murrey Pogue limps into Chicago determined to forget her tortured past. Her fresh hope arrives in the form of the suave, sophisticated American Manfredi, and the unlikely couple become entangled in a passionate affair more intense than either has ever known. But distance alone can't obliterate the pain of Murrey's past life, and she is drawn back to Ireland and the mother she left behind in a bid to understand the childhood tragedy that overshadows her life. But in deserting her new-found Chicago life and love, has Murrey come to terms with her past, only to say farewell to future happiness?