Sweeping Shadows of Hell's Kitchen: A Mail Order Bride Romance

Minnie Carroll's calloused hands gripped the worn broom handle as she swept the endless detritus from the streets of New York City's notorious Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in the sweltering summer of 1887. The pungent stench of rotting garbage and horse manure assaulted her nostrils with each labored breath. This daily toil of clearing the filthy streets was all the orphaned young woman had known s...