A Daring Venture

Rosalind Werner has been curious about micro-organisms killed her family when she was just a child, leaving only her and her brother to make it through life together.  They first go to their grandparents' home, but end up in Germany when their grandparents also died.

Rosalind was determined to find a way to obliterate water borne micro-organisms and save other families from what she had gone through.  After she got a doctorate in micro-biology from Heidelberg University in Germany, she came back to the states and started working with Dr. Leal on treating water with chlorine.   On the other side of this is Nick Drake who believed that filtration is enough.  There was an instant attraction between them and the more they were together, the more it grew. 

Elizabeth Camden used a common trope in writing this book--the romance formula:  Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back and marries her.  In her use of this formula she characterizes Nick as a quick-tempered man who flies off the handle with little provocation.  While this may have been a norm during the early 1900s, this has become an unacceptable norm for life within families--spousal abuse is frowned upon in current society. 

Other than getting through the temper tantrums and the loads of unforgiveness demonstrated by the characters this book could be really good.  Rosalind's research and her findings are pretty interesting. 

Four Stars

Bethany House provided the galley for me to read through NetGalley.com to get an honest, opinionated review.  These are MY thoughts alone.