THE LADY OF TARPON SPRINGS by JUDITH MILLER is a romance novel that takes place in 1905 during the time of diving for sponges at Tarpon Springs, Florida. When Doctor Lucy Penrose hears from her friend and lawyer Zanna Krykos that the contract her deceased father signed to buy three diving boats and employ Greek divers to run a sponging business, could not be cancelled, and that Lucy would have to honour the contract if he should die, she is devastated. Zanna, who lives with her very boisterous Greek family, is naturally fluent in Greek and agrees to run the business for her friend.
The two young ladies are both determined to succeed in their careers, in fact Zanna became a lawyer without her father's knowledge or permission. He feels a woman's job is to get married and have babies, and keeps threatening to send her to Greece with her grandmother to find a Greek husband!
Fifty Greek spongers arrive, headed by Nico Kalos, and Zanna has her work cut out getting the Greek men to listen to her. She and Nico have to learn to work together in order to succeed.
When things start going wrong, we wonder how long it will take before Zanna and Nico find out what or who is sabotaging their business. There is quite a lot of suspense and there are some very colourful characters. I enjoyed the novel for the lovely story and good Christian message.
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