This book is a story about an Irish family living in County Antrim during the second half of the eighteenth century. They are ordinary people who love their God, love their country, love their family, love their neighbors and love the land. Andrew and Anthony Hamill are the youngest sons of a well-established Presbyterian farming family who lived in the Bushmills area of Antrim. They both choose not to take up the land and farm in the Hamill tradition. One goes to Belfast to learn the white trade'. The other follows his mother's religion and enters a Catholic seminary, but later abandons his calling and returns to Belfast to join his brother at Lally's Linen Mill. After a tragedy at the mill, Anthony gives up the white trade and returns to the land. He marries, takes a lease in Ballyclare and sets out to establish his homestead. Anthony and Margaret operate a successful farm, raise their family, create lasting friendships and strive to deal with the bloody conflicts in Ireland during the last decade of the eighteenth century.
Through their 'Middle Kingdom' mindset and great patience, the Chinese used the French and surrogate terrorists to marginalize America and the West. They quickly advanced in technology and essentially own the World's resources in space from the Space Station, surveillance satellites, to fleets of Space Shuttle craft. With the goal of completing its colonization of the Moon, something unusual happens at an obscure station. It involves a discovery where the Chinese feel they can correctly deal with its implications and do so as the primary intercessor for mankind. Although their intentions may be of the highest moral quality, they are deadly wrong and it leads to a situation where all dreams for mankind may disasterously end
