Not the Same Water: An 1890s Historical Romance Novel

Fast paced historical novel, with a beautiful but bittersweet romance build around a progressive young woman's struggle to become a trauma surgeon, a profession unheard of for women in the 1890s. When Becky Russell and her friends from the Sewing Academy in Red Wing, Minnesota, bucking the propriety norms of the time, take an unescorted excursion on a paddle steamer to Lake City to view a military display at the nearby National Guard camp, little does she realize her life will change foreve...