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Ruby Willis never meant to become the heart of Manhattan's most chaotic brotherhood.
At sixteen, she flees Santa Fe to escape an arranged marriage, landing in New York with nothing but a dusty dress and a stubborn hope for freedom. Then she meets Jack Kelly, the boy with dreams as big as the desert skies she left behind.
What starts as a rescue becomes a partnership. Ruby becomes the "Duchess" of the lodging house, loved fiercely by the boys she mothers and the boy she falls for. Together, she and Jack face rival newsies, the roaring strike, danger in the streets, and the fragile tenderness of young love.
But when the world threatens to tear them apart, they discover something powerful: home isn't a place. It's a person.
From rooftop confessions to street-corner serenades, from found family to real family, this is the story of a girl who crossed a country to find herself, and found an entire world that refused to let her go.
Romance. Chaos. Newsies. And a love worth fighting for.