A BRIDE'S ROGUE IN ROMA, TEXAS

(Brides & Weddings)

Paperback, ebook

September 1, 2012

by Darlene Franklin

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1616267391

Love and faith collide in a river of doubt.

Blanche Lamar has inherited a steamboat from a father she’s never met. As she struggles to adjust to her new life she finds an unexpected ally in Ike Gallagher. She and Ike both want to find a way to make the steamboat profitable but are at odds on how to accomplish it. Can they learn to live in faith, or will their future happiness sink in a river of overwhelming devastation.

Penniless and brokenhearted following her mother's death, Blanche Lamar is surprised to recieve a mysterious summons from a father she's never met. Then ship purser Ike Gallagher informs her that her father, Captain J. O. Lamar, has died and left her the steamboat Cordelia as her inheritance.

In spite of her reservations about life aboard a steamboat and without other resources, Blanche agrees to travel downriver from Roma, Texas, and talk with her father's lawyers. She soon discovers a different side to her father as she's befriended by the curmudgeonly pilot, Old Obie. As Obie teaches her to pilot the steamboat, he also encourages her to trust her growing feelings toward Ike, something she's resisting.

But as circumstances conspire to tear Blanche and Ike apart, they must act on faith or sink any possibility of a future together.