A chance encounter in a Charleston salon on a hot August night in 1898 changes the course of Helen Fitzgerald’s life. A dark and exciting man has come from Ireland seeking guns and money for the Fenian cause. That is his dangerous secret, as is the wife who awaits him in Ireland. He is gone as suddenly as he came, his pockets heavy with her father’s gold. Helen is left with the physical reminder of her indiscretion, an unborn baby boy. Road’s End is the story of love, betrayal, and dark secrets of three generations of Carroll women ruled by passion. It is a compelling historical of the deep South set between two world wars.