About the book: 2017 / 1879, York. Greta Costello is ready to take on the most difficult work to help her family survive. The old jeweler Saul Abrams will discern in the poor washerwoman an amazing sense of beauty and delicate fingers, he will teach her the art of stringing pearls. This skill will lead her through difficulties and pain to a new life... Years and continents, the stormy rivers of Scotland and the wide Mississippi... A story in which love and the thirst for revenge, family ties and a craving for freedom are intertwined, the incredible journey of a brave woman in search of her destiny and true love…