With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.

While on a dinner cruise aboard a restored riverboat, Mrs. Cornelius Mahoney has her necklace ripped right off her neck, but luckily for her, Nancy, George, and Bess are on the boat to nab the jewel thief.

A prideful woman and a drunkard captain seek restoration and find it, by God's grace, in each other.

When she takes a job on her old flame's family's riverboat, Devyn Mauvais, the descendant of Louisiana's most infamous voodoo queen, refuses to give former Marine Beau Dumont another chance to break her heart.

The columns of Cottonwood. "Cottonwood was supposed to belong to Savannah Carmichael, but now Dante Rinaldi has paid the back taxes and stolen her inheritance - a dream-come-true for Dante, except he never wanted to destroy someone else's dream to get it. Can God's sovereignty bring a solution for them both?"--P. [4] of cover. Dinner at the St. James. "As a doctor's daughter, Tave Spencer thought she was immune to love. But as she nurses Daniel Luckett,...

"Meet Cady Meade, captain of the steam-launch, Juniper. In her heyday she carried people and goods on the river Nysis, from the thriving seaports of the estuary into Ludwich, the capital city. But that was years ago. Now she's drunk, holed up in a rundown seaside resort, telling her bawdy tales for shots of rum. All this changes, when two strangers seek her out, asking for transports: a young girl, very ill, and in grave danger, and an artificial...

"Chesapeake Bay, 1980. Eighteen-year-old Verity Vergennes is the captain of the USS Nepenthe, and her seven younger siblings are her crew. The ship - an oyster boat transformed into a make-believe destroyer - is the heart of the Vergennes family, a place both to play and to learn responsibility. But Verity's had it with being tied to the ship and secretly applies to a distant college. If only her parents could bear to let her go. Maeve and Arthur...

Otto the alligator wants to be a hero like Uncle Tooth, so he follows the shady figure who is skulking around the riverboat docked in the harbor.

When River Fillian's powerful father, a pirate on a Mississippi keeler, disappears after a horrific earthquake in 1811, she must challenge the infamous rivals who hope to claim his territory and find her own place in the new order. Includes historical notes.

Low on fuel, Maximilian's time machine lands him on a Mississippi riverboat where he meets a friendly southern bullfrog, collects an autograph from the author Samuel Clemens to add to his souvenirs, and gets enough fuel to continue his journey through history.