Why do bad things happen to good people--especially if you're Irish? Meg O'Meara wanted no more part of her mother's shamrock-shaped world of superstitions, Celtic witchery, and rants about how real Irishmen never wear green, St. Patrick is a total fraud, and how the only "luck o' the Irish" is all bad-and that, her mother swore, was a good thing. But when a stroke of Meg's own bad Irish luck lands her in the middle of a ridiculous war between her mother's newly opened Irish shop and the Wisconsin fishing village's diehard Scandinavian locals, Meg is reluctantly reunited with her first love and a painful buried past, as she is forced to discover if "bad" Irish luck really is the luckiest thing that can happen to us all.