Morgan cannot fault her abilities as a clerk and is drawn to her immediately despite her widow's weeds. Despite his former lover's attempts to rid him of his clerk, he cares for and protects her. He even sails with her on the perilous voyage back to America when she is summoned home to her dying father's bedside just as the Civil War is raging. Learning what happens on shipboard and after they arrive in America will keep the reader turning pages.

The plot stirs up great conflict at every turn as the story comes to life in the English countryside. In the voyage to America, the reader can almost smell the salt air and the danger. This story does a nice job of creating passionate characters of substance within the realistic possibilities of the era. The reader must occasionally put up with too much arguing between the hero and heroine and going over the same points repeatedly, but most of the time this manifestation of stubbornness is enjoyable. The manner in which the happy ending is achieved for several of the characters is a delight of originality.

The quick pace keeps this story moving, and you'll want to move it to the head of your romance ebook shopping list.