The Carnegie's Maid starts out with our main character sailing from Ireland to America. She is poor and looking to work in America to help her family out in Ireland so they can keep their farm. A woman dies on the boat and is thrown overboard. Once the boat docks, our main character looks for the people who will pick her up to take her to her job. However, her name keeps getting called by another person. She goes with them and finds out she is mistaken for the other woman who died on board and they happen to have the same first and last name. She finds out that woman is supposed to be a ladies maid and she takes that woman's position. She throws herself into being the best ladies maid as possible and pretends to be someone she is not. Will she get caught? Also, she starts falling for Andrew and helps him with his ideas. This book is not wholly centered by a romance, but a way of life. I really enjoyed it.