Full Steam Ahead

When love simmers between a reclusive scientist and a wealthy debutante, will they abandon ship or is it full steam ahead?


Nicole Renard returns home to Galveston, Texas, to find her father deathly ill. Though she loves him, Nicoles father has always focused on what shes not. Not male. Not married. Not able to run Renard Shipping.

Vowing to find a suitable husband to give her father the heir he desires before its too late, Nicole sets out with the Renard familys greatest treasure as her dowry: the highly coveted Lafitte Dagger. But her fathers rivals come after the dagger, forcing a change in Nicoles plans.

After a boiler explosion aboard the Louisiana nearly took his life, Darius Thornton has been a man obsessed. He will do anything to stop even one more steamship disaster. Even if it means letting a female secretary into his secluded world.

Nicole is determined not to let her odd employer scare her off with his explosive experiments, yet when respect and mutual attraction grow between them, a new fear arises. How can she acquire an heir for her father when her heart belongs to another? And when her fathers rivals discover her hiding place, will she have to choose between that love and her familys legacy?