Joe O'Malley

Joe O’Malley is one of the youngest of The Nine Irish Sons. He chose to go to college in the U.S., first to Columbia in N.Y., and then to Georgetown Law School. His dream is to be invited into an elite D.C. law firm and then to run for congress. But his family interferes. He is literally forced into a public defender’s position in New York where Katherine Rose Gilmore set up a task force on the human trafficking of sex slaves.

Joe assumes Katherine was responsible for his mother’s interference in his work and is immediately resentful. He pouts over the improbable fulfillment of his political dreams and takes it out on her.

Joe’s grandmother is the true master behind the plans to have them marry, and ultimately have Joe elected to congress to uncover a myriad of international crimes by greedy politicians. But she doesn’t leave their future to pure chance. She sets plans into motion that force the two to work together on a dangerous mission until their resistance to being set up is broken and their dormant desires boil over into a rare romance.