In 1911, she crossed the Atlantic for love—only to be betrayed by her fiancé and a wealthy heiress working together. With nowhere left to turn, she married a mysterious injured man from the ship, a poor young man who claimed to stoke boilers at a steel mill. To survive, she took a job as a stenographer for a powerful family, while he shoveled coal in the boiler room. When a vicious woman strings her up over a steel furnace and threatens her, and her scumbag ex sneers that she's "only fit to be my mistress," the boiler-stoker husband who comes home covered in grime every day says mildly, "Throw them out." The room falls dead silent... Only then does she realize that the man she married might be more than just a boiler stoker.