Stillwater

I would like to give this book 3 1/2 stars. I liked it a lot, but.... There are several storylines in this novel that fit together in ways that become clear as you read along...yet I felt that some of those stories weren't adequately developed, or they occurred in the wrong order, so that it was hard to understand why one of the central events in the book happened in the first place. Still, the characters and their place in history are so well written, lively and interesting, that I just enjoyed reading about them. I know this author has written at least one other novel, and I will probably seek that one out too.