FIERY FIELDS is set from 1909 to 1917. The title reflects Teresa's experiences from her violent wedding night to her volatile life in America.
Teresa, a poor seventeen-year-old girl, longs for love and independence, but her mother sends her to America to follow a man her mother had forced her to marry. On shipboard, a girl, Violetta, dies and Teresa assumes Violetta's identity. Unfortunately, Violetta had been on her way to meet, for the first time, her fiancé, Nick, and his controlling mother. Does Teresa fool them?
Teresa's mother insisted that love and independence are only for the rich and will merely lead Teresa to pain. If that means that she must have money, somehow Teresa will earn it by creating a noteworthy career. Can this penniless immigrant in a strange, hostile new world overcome her difficulties? Is her mother's prophecy correct? How does she deal with the men in her life
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