A Daring Venture by Elizabeth Camden

As a biochemist in early 1900s New York, Doctor Rosalind Werner has dedicated her life to the crusade against waterborne diseases. She is at the forefront of a groundbreaking technology that will change the way water is delivered to every household in the city-- but only if she can get people to believe in her work.

Newly appointed Commissioner of Water for New York Nicholas Drake is highly skeptical of Rosalind and her team's techniques. When a brewing court case throws him into direct confrontation with her, he is surprised by his reaction to the lovely scientist.

While Rosalind and Nick wage a private war against their own attraction, they stand firmly on opposite sides of a battle that will impact far more than just their own lives. As the controversy grows more public and inflammatory and Rosalind becomes the target of an unknown enemy, these two rivals will face higher stakes than they ever could have known.

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Review: "A Daring Venture" is the second book chronically the adventures of the Drake siblings. In this novel, Nick Drake, roguishly handsome, hot-tempered, and now fabulously rich, takes center stage as he crashes New York's elite hierarchy. Born into poverty and raised with a growling stomach and uncertain future, Nick Drake has worked his hands to the bone getting to where he is at now. He does not have the expensive education that many of his new peers do, but he has boots-on-the-ground experience and a surplus of passion with which he is spearheading change with. He dreams of running water and safe water for all those in New York, and with every breath he is working towards that end.

Meanwhile, Rosalind Werner is also dreaming of a world with clean water. To be specific: a world without cholera or typhoid. Unfortunately, her cutting edge research on water chlorination is being buffeted back by the bull headed and daringly handsome Nick Drake.

Sparks fly the moment the two meet, but their opposite approaches to sanitizing the New York and Jersey water systems have them professionally on other sides of the battle lines. When old scandal from Rosalind's past raises its ugly head and Nick Drake's ferocious relatives go on the attack, the stakes get much higher and their goals next to impossible...

In my opinion, this was an great book, and I enjoyed it immensely. The first book in this series, "A Dangerous Legacy" about Lucy Drake (Nicks's sister) was also very well written and engaging, and I'm so glad Elizabeth Camden decided to write a book about Nick too. He was such an engaging character in "A Dangerous Legacy" and I was thrilled to see him take the front seat in "A Daring Venture". I would definitely recommend both these books for an entertaining, based-on-true-historical-events, historical novel.



Thank-you to Graf Martin Communications and to Baker Publishing House for a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.