TY - BOOK AU - Peterson,Tracie AU - Miller,Judith TI - A tapestry of hope T2 - Lights of Lowell SN - 9781410493125 PY - 2016/// CY - Waterville, Maine PB - Thorndike Press KW - Irish American women KW - Fiction KW - Indentured servants KW - Textile industry KW - Plantation owners KW - Arranged marriage KW - Married women KW - Lowell (Mass.) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Large type books KW - Religious fiction KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction N2 - Jasmine Wainwright is the sheltered daughter of a Mississippi plantation owner. When her father strikes a deal to sell his cotton to Lowell mills through businessman Bradley Houston, he throws an arranged marriage with Jasmine into the bargain. Kiara O'Neill and her brother escape starvation in Ireland by traveling to America as Bradley Houston's indentured servants. But Bradley has more in mind for Kiara than she wants to imagine. Both women suffer in the home of this unloving husband and merciless master. Will God somehow bring hope to their lives? ER -