title: Lace Curtains
author: Widmer, Mary Lou
description: A romantic, tempestuous saga of an Irish family in antebellum New Orleans
  
  THE CALLAHANS
  THEY RISKED EVERYTHING TO MAKE A NEW LIFE IN SULTRY AND SPECTACULAR NEW ORLEANS
  
  Danny -- The famine of 1832 drove him from his land and his love.  Working his way up from ditch-digger to political powerbroker, he made his fortune with a reliance on integrity that shocked his friends -- and enraged his enemies.  Then, he sent for the woman he had never forgotten...
  
  Brian -- His brooding good looks captured every woman's heart, and every man's envy.  Yet he was hidden in the shadow of his brother's success until he found his own fame as the owner of the Delta's most famous bar...and brothel.
  
  Peggy -- Beautiful, dark-haired, willful.  She followed her brothers to America, but led her own life.  Using her determined Irish pluck, she rose from the seamy waterfront to the mansion of a Louisiana millionaire, but still she yearned for one man whom she could love.