A Captain for Laura Rose

At first I wondered exactly where this book was going, with an independent woman and a man with a past...I certainly didn't want a bad-boy-saved-by-strong-woman tale. Turns out, I need not have been worried; the plot turned into a very pleasant tale of Laura's quest to save her steamboat and become the first woman pilot on the Mississippi. Not a favorite, but I'll definitely read others by this author in the future.

Content: drunkenness; character gets the cart before the horse with a woman in the story and then doesn't live to make an honest woman of her.