Into The Whirlwind

Elizabeth Camden has written a book that takes the imagination and captures it for all the pages of her book. Mollie has taken over her father's watchmaking business after his death. She has developed a love for the men and women who worked for the company and the desire of her father to provide them a living. Most of them had served admirably with her father during the War Between the States. When the great Chicago Fire breaks out, Mollie has to get all of her equipment onto a train to save her business.

Zack Kazmarek is the attorney who negotiates between Mollie and the department store that buys her watches. Through that connection, they become friends and he helps her rescue her father's oldest friend from the fire. Zack has always loved Mollie but has kept himself aloof because he's not allowed to fraternize with the vendors or employees of the department store.

After the fire is out, Zack does all he can to help Mollie get back on her feet and get her business back together. While she lives in a refugee camp, her father's friend is murdered over some watches they have hidden in the camp. Zack and Mollie have some rough roads to travel to get to true love and it's interesting to watch them get there.

Elizabeth has written of the Chicago Fire with the personal touch so that the reader feels like they are in the midst of it and helps the reader to understand what the life could have been like to experience it. Into the Whirlwind is compelling, intriguing, and hard to put down.

Five Stars, Two Thumbs Up, and a fully wound watch.