Full Steam Ahead

An interesting and enjoyable historical romance story. It jumped to the top of my to-read list when the author took time to give an intelligent and interesting answer to a question I'd asked last week; I grabbed it on impulse despite a tight weekly budget, and am not sorry.
Solid 4.5 stars. I doubt it's destined for a classic, but I really enjoyed it dearly! I will definitely read more of her books in the future. The history was very accurate (quite the treat after the errors in the last Christian historical I read!), which made it easy to feel like the book could actually have happened. The characters were engaging, and there were several twists to the plot that I sure didn't see coming.
The Christianity of the story is very subtile, less even than used to be in the secular books of a century ago, but tastefully and naturally included.
I liked how the hero was eccentric for a reason. Many authors just make a character antisocial and have some sort of peccadillo for the reason, but Darius's reason for secluding himself in the Texas countryside seems believable. A pet peeve of mine is characters that do things I don't expect them to do, and–while they do do unexpected things in the story–these characters always stayed true to themsleves. Often a difficult accomplishment for an author!
And I loved the young boy!