I enjoyed this book. Period pieces always delight me, and this one is set in 1870's Maryland and deals with issues of the industrial revolution, the development of corporations, and the opium trade. The main characters are engaging. I was really rooting for Clara and Daniel and their long frustra...
I had difficulty engaging with the characters ** spoiler alert ** I enjoyed Against the Tide generally. The story was interesting and different and seems well-researched. However, I found it difficult to warm to the characters. I had already encountered Alexander Banefield and he was fascinating ...
I really like this book! It wasn't at all what I expected. It helpd my interest adn I finished it in two days. It wasn an interesting story and I liked the ending. Small towns are so funny, stories start and they are all through the town with everyone forming opnions, without all the needed in...
A long carriage ride through the night had been their only option to get to Boulder Point.As attorney general, Michael was able to pull some strings to smooth their path. Before leaving the station, he’d wired the police in Boulder Point to be on the lookout for Ernest Palmer, described as a shor...
Sophie felt a little awkward being confined so tightly beside Quentin in the carriage, but she’d endure anything if she could win his agreement to transform the abandoned mill into a climate observatory.A deep, fragrant forest surrounded them on all sides. Most of this land had been cleared when ...
He looked like he drank vinegar for breakfast, and she wasn’t sure how to get on his good side. Or if he even had a good side.She didn’t want to move her weather station, for the government was exacting in their requirements for site selection. The stations needed to be high off the ground, with ...
Clyde Brixton stood in the superintendent’s office at the United States Military Academy at West Point, not quite certain he understood the bizarre order correctly. Superintendent Draper sat behind the imposing mahogany desk flanked by two American flags. “General White’s ...
It was one thing for Trevor to be rude to her, but she wouldn’t tolerate it toward her mother or the others at the boardinghouse. He embarrassed her horribly by his behavior. She tried to apologize on his behalf, mentioning the stress he was under because of those awful newspaper stories, but her...
He had come back!It had been three days since he had left on that cold morning outside the church, and she wondered if his impassioned words were motivated only by the overheated emotions the crisis had aroused. But here he was, carrying a sack of food and wearing a grin that made her weak in the...
Anna was well aware of his intentions toward her, but he didn’t intend to moon about like a lovesick idiot while she got over her fears. The problem was—and this annoyed him to no end—he missed her. And he was a lovesick idiot. He couldn’t concentrate because he kept wonde...