The blue tattoo

Summary: It's 1917. The Great War has given rise to unprecedented prosperity in Halifax. It has also given rise to an explosive desire for change. A medical student and daughter of a prominent Halifax family, Elizabeth Beckett dreams of bringing equality to women in an age when men control the world. She also fights to five women a voice in the politics of war. At the same time, sugar refinery worker Danny Cohen dreams of leaving Halifax and a deadly war machine that he believes serves the wealthy. He fights to make the money he needs so he can escape. When they fall in love, their differing beliefs prove too much and they they are torn apart. Elizabeth returns to her suffrage movement while Danny escapes to Boston for a better life. However, when the two ships collide in Halifax Harbour on December 6, 1917, and the greatest explosion the world had ever known was unleashed, their eyes opened to new truths. Elizabeth in swept up in the chaos that follows and works courageously at a local hospital, overrun with the horribly injured. She finds dwindling medical supplies and worsening conditions, only to face a once-in-a-generation snowstorm that promises to take away whatever hope remains. Without fresh medical supplies, hundreds will soon die. Now desperate to return home, Danny hears a medical relief train is leaving Boston. In charge is a man with a dark past who promises to race to Halifax in record time. Danny manages to get on the train, only to face a snowstorm that stops it in its tracks. Without action and personal sacrifice, the train may never arrive.