A Ship Called Abigail

By Dan W. Dooley

It's a Steampunk love story. Christian fiction set in a Steampunk world, but people living in that world are just like us. A man, lonely following the death of his beloved wife three years before, only now he is beginning to allow himself thoughts of finding new love again. But somehow that does not seem right. The thought of meeting and being with a new woman feels too much like cheating on his dead wife.

In the same city, a woman, now widowed four years, busy with her career as a pediatric physician, and raising her thirteen-year-old son, knows the boy needs a father figure in his life. And with her own loneliness, she has needs as well. But as she examines her image in her looking glass, seeing the tiny wrinkles beginning to form, and that grey hair that stands out against its fellows, she asked herself, what good man would find her attractive, and want to become a part of her life? And, take on the role of dad to her son. Where would she find such a man?

In another part of the same city, another man, a captain of industry, having spent his former years living a life of self-indulgence, with women, travel, and the pleasures his money could afford him, finally met the woman who would change all of that for him. Falling in love, and planning a life together, they begin their dream of a grand adventure. He began building a lighter than air airship. A flying ship. When it would finally be finished, the couple planned to embark on a honeymoon adventure cruise, sailing high above the ground below, sailing to destinations they do not intend to plan ahead of time. They would simply go where the wind carried them. But it all came to an end when the woman died suddenly and unexpectedly before the dream could become reality.

The unfinished airship now sits abandoned in its place of construction. But it remains in the possession of a caring friend. A friend who will be, along with his own kind hearted wife, the key to turns in the story. Life and new love are possible after loss for those who desire it.

A Christian Steampunk love story. A story about facing the grief of the loss of a spouse and learning that it is okay to find new love again after loss. A story about second chances. A story of reliance on faith, returning to faith, and trusting in divine Providence. A story of chance meetings, which are not really by chance, but are answers to prayer. A story of hope renewed and second chances.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B087SCJ52X
• ISBN13: 9798640979176
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"